Retail giant Woolworths plans to invest more than $50 million over the next three years to help equip its team with new skills and capabilities for the retail industry of the future.



One of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's contributions to the national broadband network, the HFC network, has been termed a dog's breakfast by a retail service provider.

Enterprise cyber analytics provider ExtraHop has opened a new data centre in Australia designed to enhance access to its cloud-native security platform, Reveal(x) 360, across the Asia Pacific region.

The Victorian Government is funding the Victorian Hydrogen Hub (VH2), which will operate in collaboration with CSIRO and Swinburne University of Technology. An early project is the development of a vehicle refuelling station at Clayton.

The Federal Government says it will provide $1.98 million to Solahart, a subsidiary of Rheem Australia, to partly fund a trial to test 2400 hot water systems in South Australia with a view to reduce the energy use for heating water at peak times.

NEC has teamed up with its wholly-owned subsidiary and business support system vendor NetCracker and usage data platform DigitalRoute in a strategic partnership in which NEC will offer DigitalRoute's Usage Data Platform alongside its 5G mobile core network (5GC) in global markets.

A British parliamentary committee has found that the process of selecting vendors to supply 5G gear for the country's networks has delayed the rollout and made it more expensive due to the ban on equipment from Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies.

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Alex Zaharov-Reutt, Afternoon Newsletter Editor, iTWire


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