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4G mobile video user to boom by 2020: Huawei and Ovum ogle gargantuan growth
A new whitepaper sees "huge growth in 4G mobile video use by 2020", with the paper highlighting three key focuses for "enabling telco big video business transformation". According to the new joint...
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It's official: Apple sends invites for iPhone 7 on 7 September
It’s lucky sevens for the next iPhone, expected to be the iPhone 7, and an expected new Apple Watch 2 with launch date on 7 September. Apple news site AppleInsider has published the news that the...
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Memo to Labor: hold your peace, the NBN debate is over
About three weeks ago, Communications Minister Mitch Fifield earned a bit of scorn in these columns after one of his media advisers sent iTWire a press release that could only be described as silly. On...
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Apple's Ireland tax deal to be ruled illegal by EU
Apple is set to face a challenge in its dealings with Ireland, with the European Union's anti-trust regulator to rule soon that the company's tax deals with Dublin are in violation of the EU's rules,...
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Interesting IT stuff in Australian online store
If you are like me and like browsing to see what “goodies” are on offer, Laser’s catalogue may be a source of considerable joy in locating some of the more obscure bits and pieces. While writing up the...
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ANZ extends Android Pay to Mastercard customers
ANZ has extended its tie-up with Android Pay to its Mastercard customers from today. The bank said more than half a million customers would benefit from this. ANZ introduced the use of Android Pay in...
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Localised ransomware targeting APAC region: researchers
Researchers at the counter threat unit of information security firm SecureWorks say they have found that the top four ransomware families are now targeting users in the Asia-Pacific region with...
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Consumer ‘uncertainty” on broadband speeds negative effect on NBN take-up: IA...
Internet Australia CEO Laurie Patton has raised concerns about the “low-subscriber take-up” of the National Broadband Network suggesting that the problem may be exacerbated by consumers not signing up...
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SSD to eclipse HDD within two years
Don’t tell Seagate or Western Digital but solid state storage (SSD) will eclipse spinning disks (HDD) within two years. Well, they probably know that and are already anticipating the curve. While the...
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You can bank on it, data is big business for the ANZ
Data storage and the strategic use of data for giving businesses a competitive advantage is a significant factor in businesses today, and no more so than in the banking industry. For banks like the...
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FULL VIDEOS: 50 Best Places to Work in Australia 2016 awards night plus...
The results of the annual Best Places To Work study have been released by Great Place To Work, with IT and software companies dominating the charts. Great Place To Work (GPTW) says it "surveyed 51,937...
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Sky and Space Global: new customers secured
The ‘Initial Nano-satellite Phase’, the Three Diamonds, has new customer for Sky and Space Global through Sat-Space Africa. Sky and Space Global Ltd, an ASX-listed company, is a brand new satellite...
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Apple-EU stoush: Cook hints Europe may lose jobs
Apple chief executive Tim Cook has attempted to paint the company's decision to set up operations in Ireland as one that was driven by factors other than hard commercial reasons. Reacting to the EU's...
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EU stoush: Apple's Cook starts off on wrong note
Apple chief executive Tim Cook lives in a different world to the one you and I inhabit. Nothing else can account for the fact that he was recently proclaiming that the company he leads should not have...
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BitTorrent app bites macOS again
Just months after the Transmission app became the first instance of Mac ransomware, it is back, this time, loaded with OSX/Keydnap and still fooling macOS gatekeeper. Security firm ESET says it...
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Apple-EU stoush: No positive for Australia in decision
A fair few countries will be watching the way the fight between the European Union and Apple develops, hoping that they can also get their share of the back taxes that the computer company has been...
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Fairware ransomware for Linux Web servers
FairWare was first reported on Bleeping Computer's forum on 27 August with readers looking for information on this potential ransomware. Reports indicated that Linux systems had been penetrated with...
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Business, government must step up in fight against data breaches
The pending introduction of mandatory data breach notification laws in Australia provides an opportunity for the federal government to provide “robust guidance” and signal to business that they can't...
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French law to tax images indexed on Web
France has passed a law that will impose a royalty on images that are indexed on the Internet in the country. The legislation was passed after parliamentarians presented it as a means of ensuring there...
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LogRhythm completes US$50 million funding round
Security intelligence company LogRhythm has closed a US$50 million round of new financing, with the funds to be used to accelerate growth of its business in the threat detection and response solutions...
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