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Vaya claims unlimited plan price crown
Vaya reckons its $16 a month Unlimited S plan is Australia's cheapest way to get unlimited mobile calls and texts. Vaya has reduced the price of its Unlimited S mobile plan from $20 to $16, but this...
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ABS not alone – DDoS attacks on government systems ‘almost daily’ claim
Macquarie Government has weighed into the debate on the census debacle, saying it has seen almost daily DDoS attacks on government systems, and “all blame” for the census failure should not be aimed at...
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Label everything and label often
That is likely Brother’s motto as it has added an industrial strength labeller to its P-Touch Range. The new PT-D800Wprints from 3.5mm to 36mm wide labels at 60mm/second. It has a detachable keyboard,...
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WD Gold 10TB HDD for data centres
Data centres have a very different set of requirements to compute or network attached storage use. WD’s Gold series now have a 10TB Helium filled drive that offers 2.5 million hours...
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Microsoft patches two remote holes in Edge, seven others
Microsoft has released patches for nine vulnerabilities in various software packages, with five of the flaws being remotely exploitable. Among them was a remote code execution vulnerability that...
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Radeon RX 460 – the NQNBT for gamers
Two days ago iTWire announced the Radeon RX 470 – the next big thing (NBT) for impoverished gamers. Today we announce the Not Quite Next Best Thing (NQNBT) for gamers on the dole. The RX 470 is an...
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Worldpay after bigger share of Australia's $42b ecommerce market
Global payments giant Worldpay has set up an operation in Australia to process payments in the country’s $42 billion ecommerce market. Worldpay, which has just won its licence to process payments in...
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How to harness cloud without the bill shock
Lowering the total cost of cloud ownership (TCCO) is now a priority for most organisations using cloud services, as they look to overcome bill shock. While matching expenses to usage sounds ideal many...
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Eight million Aussies help boost LinkedIn APAC members to 100 million
LinkedIn has doubled its members in the Asia Pacific region over the past two years to 100 million, including 8 million in Australia now signed up to the world’s largest professional network. The...
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Alibaba Cloud helping foreign companies enter China market
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of giant Chinese online retailer, Alibaba, has unveiled its global marketplace and AliLaunch programs for international technology partners to enter the China...
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Nimble introduces low-end all-flash array
Storage vendor Nimble Storage has announced the AF1000, an entry-level but full-featured all-flash array that can be scaled up to 8PB. The Nimble Storage AF1000 starts at US$40,000 with an effective...
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Telstra investing $3.5b in networks in wake of outages
Telstra is investing $3 billion in its networks over the next three years as it attempts to win back the faith of disgruntled customers hit by a series of network outages over recent months. The...
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Skingsley's the new CTO at HDS APAC
Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has appointed Russell Skingsley as its Singapore-based chief technology officer, solutions and products group leader and head of pre-sales for Asia Pacific....
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One day, Fifield walked into the Netflix NBN bar...
Politicians will always grasp at any straw to bolster their claims that they, and their initiatives, are the best and brightest in the land. Or at times across the globe. But quite often, things tend...
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Datacom powers ahead with strong growth in NZ, Australia markets
Trans-Tasman IT services group, Datacom, continues on a strong growth path across the Australian and New Zealand markets, and increasingly in international markets, with revenue climbing to A$955...
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Census 2016: Turnbull says 'heads will roll'
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has threatened that "heads will roll" in the wake of the census debacle on Tuesday night, which has resulted in the population count still being incomplete....
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ASD says census data is safe
According to a statement issued by the Australian Privacy Commissioner, the Australian Signals Directorate says there was a DoS attack on the Census 2016 website, and that there was no data breach....
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Census 2016: incompetence, lack of planning caused debacle: claim
The Australian census website went down on Tuesday night due to incompetence and lack of planning, an Australian technology journalist has claimed. Patrick Gray, who produces a podcast called Risky...
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Optus profits down under ‘intense’ price competition
Australia’s second largest telco Optus has suffered a drop in profit for the June quarter, with the fall attributed to an ACCC decision to get tough on mobile termination rates in the telecoms...
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ACCC tick of approval for JB Hi-Fi acquisition of Good Guys
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given the green light to JB Hi-Fi’s proposed acquisition of retail rival, the Good Guys Discount Warehouses, saying it won’t oppose the deal over...
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