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Vocus A$5.25B acquisition of TPG’s fibre and EGW business completed
03 August 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsAustralian telecoms network infrastructure provider Vocus has completed its acquisition of operator TPG Telecom's fibre assets and Enterprise, Government and…
VIDEO INTERVIEW: 19-yo autistic Aussie's 'fidget therapy' changes lives, wins 2nd in global young entrepreneur awards
01 August 2025 in Your TechGUEST INTERVIEW: From being bullied in school for being autistic, dyslexic and neurodivergent, and for using fidget toys, Kai Seymon…
Boomi Brings Sovereign Data Integration to Australia
01 August 2025 in DataCOMPANY NEWS: New Sydney-based deployment delivers fast, secure, and compliant data movement for enterprises managing AI, analytics, and regulatory risk
Chinese mobile operators dominated IoT connectivity services in 2024
31 July 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsA new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight revealed that Chinese mobile operators dominated in worldwide IoT…
Optus to deploy new 5G enhanced voice services using cloud native solution
31 July 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsAustralian operator Optus has contracted Nokia to refresh its voice platform and deliver cloud-native voice services over its 5G network…
Tenable One surpasses 300 integrations, delivering the security industry’s most open exposure management platform
31 July 2025 in SecurityTenable One now connects more of the security stack than any other exposure management platform, empowering customers with unmatched context…
PERSOLKELLY Evolves into PERSOL, Strengthening Workforce Solutions for Australia’s Growth Sectors
31 July 2025 in StrategyCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Asia Pacific’s leading HR solutions provider, PERSOLKELLY, has officially rebranded as PERSOL, unifying its operations across 13 markets under…
Atturra To Acquire Blue Connections Pty Ltd, A Leading Managed Services Provider And Systems Integrator
31 July 2025 in DealsCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Atturra Limited (ASX: ATA), a leading technology services business in designing, implementing, and maintaining IT solutions, announces that its…
FieldEx implements Datadog to improve reliability and efficiency
30 July 2025 in StrategyMalaysian startup scaled operations and streamlined issue detection and alerting using Datadog’s comprehensive cloud observability platform Datadog, Inc(NASDAQ: DDOG), the…
Rapid7 launches incident command: AI-Native SIEM empowers analysts to act with speed and precision from risk to response
30 July 2025 in SecurityPowered by SOC-tested AI and built on the Command Platform integrated data foundation, Incident Command delivers detection, automation, attack surface…
SoftBank claims performance boost using quantum computing on base station settings
30 July 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsJapanese mobile operator SoftBank claims significant increases in downlink speed and data capacity were successfully achieved in a proof-of-concept experiment…
China smartphone shipments to US devastated in Q2 2025 as India eats its lunch
30 July 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsChina has seen its market share of smartphone shipments to the United States ravaged in Q2 2025, undergoing a precipitous…
Europe-North Africa Medusa subsea cable to be powered by Nokia
29 July 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsThe Medusa Submarine Cable System, a project owned by Barcelona based African internet exchange point company AFR-IX Telecom, has selected…
Orange Money and JUMO partner to offer credit services to unbanked in Africa
29 July 2025 in Business TelecommunicationsOrange Money, the mobile phone money transfer service of French telco Orange, and South African fintech provider JUMO have partnered…
DXC introduces Assure Risk Management: AI and Human Expertise Combined to support self-insured employers
29 July 2025 in Enterprise SolutionsHelping Australian employers with smarter, more efficient ways to manage employee care and compliance for improved return-to-work outcomes DXC Technology…
Breaking IT News
Containing Threats in Real Time: Illumio Insights Now Generally Available
01 August 2025 in SecurityIllumio Inc has announced the general availability of Illumio Insights, a powerful new product within the Illumio Platform. As the only…
Informatica Boosts AI Capabilities with Latest Intelligent Data Management Cloud Platform Release
01 August 2025 in DataCOMPANY NEWS: Informatica today announced the Summer 2025 release of its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) platform. The new AI-powered data…
ECI Software Solutions Launches New Solutions to Support Australian and New Zealand Manufacturers Transform Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling
01 August 2025 in Business SoftwareCOMPANY NEWS: ECI Software Solutions, a global provider of cloud-based business management software and services, today launched availability of its Manufacturing…
Hitachi Vantara Announces Virtual Storage Platform One’s Availability on Google Cloud Marketplace to Strengthen Hybrid Cloud Data Management
01 August 2025 in Storage & Cloud StorageCOMPANY NEWS: New two-way data mobility capabilities and expanded cloud integration simplify data protection and hybrid cloud operations while helping reduce…
Nozomi Networks Names David Hope as Regional Vice President for APJ
31 July 2025 in People MovesCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Industry veteran to lead APJ as Nozomi Networks expands regional investment to support growing demand in APJ.
Datadog Appoints Roz Gregory to Drive Growth Across Australia and New Zealand
31 July 2025 in People MovesCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Gregory to steer multi-year growth plans following strong local expansion and opening of Datadog’s first Australian data centre presence
Plan B Limited Announces Rebrand to Atturra
31 July 2025 in StrategyCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: New Services and Management Team focused on Innovation and Client Experience.
Teradata MCP Server Empowers Agentic AI with Transparent, Trusted Data Access at Scale
31 July 2025 in DataBy delivering deep semantic access to enterprise data, Teradata’s open-source MCP Server enables AI agents to operate with clarity, context,…
New Relic Announces Rob Newell as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan
30 July 2025 in People MovesCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Proven go-to-market leader and technologist to drive continued growth across the region
BlackLine Appoints Greg Hughes to Board of Directors, Expanding Enterprise Software and Strategic Growth Expertise
30 July 2025 in People MovesCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: BlackLine, the future-ready financial operations platform for the Office of the CFO, announced the appointment of Greg Hughes to…
The Complexity Crisis: Why Observability Is the Foundation of Australian Business Digital Resilience
30 July 2025 in Business SoftwareGUEST OPINION: The unfortunate reality for Australian businesses today is that software failures are inevitable. What determines whether that failure becomes…
Customer Science Expands its CX Solutions with Friendly Persuasion
30 July 2025 in DealsGUEST ANNOUNCEMENT: Customer Science, the AFR Fast-100 customer service consultancy, has acquired Sydney-based Friendly Persuasion broadening its suite of solutions…
Reviews
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Geekom IT13 2025 Mini PC powered by 13th gen Intel Core
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Simify eSIMs help you travel the world without bill shock, giving peace of mind for you and your loved ones
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Seeing the world is awesome - the adventure, the excitement, the culture. Remote working may even mean you… -
Why A New 18-inch Laptop Makes Perfect Sense Right Now
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Asus Unveils Fascinating New Gaming and Business Tech
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MSI’s Best Nvidia RTX 5070 Gaming Laptops Are On Sale Now
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LAPTOP SALE: We recently published our review of MSI’s latest Crosshair 16 HX AI gaming laptop and were so impressed…
Opinion
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Beyond silos: A CIO's playbook for an Australian customer-360
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Companies everywhere are switched on to the need to drive greater insights out of their data, and one… -
The Risc-V architecture that can shape the future of computing
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Open source software rightly gets a lot of attention; open source hardware has its part to play too. One… -
Is Linux finally ready to storm the mainstream?
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Taming the heat: lessons from the Death Star, the Human Torch, and sustainable IT
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The uncomfortable truth about diversity in IT leadership: are we doing enough?
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In an industry that prides itself on innovation and forward-thinking, it's ironic that the leadership tiers of Information… -
I visited the Cloudflare Wall of Entropy where lava lamps secure the Internet
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Cloudflare is on a mission to build a better Internet. And part of how it achieves this is… -
Snowflake admins can now make MFA mandatory, thank goodness
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Big media firms trying to get govt to cover Facebook money
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Australia's mainstream media groups are trying to pressure the government in order to obtain funding to cover the…
Telecommunications
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Sparkle and Algérie Télécom to link Italy and Algeria with new subsea cable
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Sparkle, the services arm of Telecom Italia, and Algérie Télécom, the incumbent telecoms operator in Algeria, have signed… -
EU cloud providers move to appeal Broadcom acquisition of VMware
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Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), the industry body representing Europe’s leading sovereign cloud infrastructure providers, is… -
China smartphone shipments to US devastated in Q2 2025 as India eats its lunch
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China has seen its market share of smartphone shipments to the United States ravaged in Q2 2025, undergoing… -
Europe-North Africa Medusa subsea cable to be powered by Nokia
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The Medusa Submarine Cable System, a project owned by Barcelona based African internet exchange point company AFR-IX Telecom,… -
SoftBank claims performance boost using quantum computing on base station settings
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Japanese mobile operator SoftBank claims significant increases in downlink speed and data capacity were successfully achieved in a… -
Orange Money and JUMO partner to offer credit services to unbanked in Africa
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Orange Money, the mobile phone money transfer service of French telco Orange, and South African fintech provider JUMO… -
Optus to deploy new 5G enhanced voice services using cloud native solution
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Australian operator Optus has contracted Nokia to refresh its voice platform and deliver cloud-native voice services over its… -
Chinese mobile operators dominated IoT connectivity services in 2024
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A new report from the IoT market research firm Berg Insight revealed that Chinese mobile operators dominated in…
Popular News
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New report finds most organisations’ cybersecurity still misaligned with business risk priorities
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CyberArk Announces Availability of Tools to Secure AI Agents in the New AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category
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Rapid7 Launches Active Patching, Powered by Automox, to Proactively Mitigate Risk on Vulnerable Assets Across the Entire Attack Surface
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Tenable One surpasses 300 integrations, delivering the security industry’s most open exposure management platform
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New Relic Announces Rob Newell as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan
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Rapid7 launches incident command: AI-Native SIEM empowers analysts to act with speed and precision from risk to response
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Powered by SOC-tested AI and built on the Command Platform integrated data foundation, Incident Command delivers detection, automation,… -
Sparkle and Algérie Télécom to link Italy and Algeria with new subsea cable
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Sparkle, the services arm of Telecom Italia, and Algérie Télécom, the incumbent telecoms operator in Algeria, have signed…
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Nozomi Networks Names David Hope as Regional Vice President for APJ
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EU cloud providers move to appeal Broadcom acquisition of VMware
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Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE), the industry body representing Europe’s leading sovereign cloud infrastructure providers, is…
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China smartphone shipments to US devastated in Q2 2025 as India eats its lunch
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China has seen its market share of smartphone shipments to the United States ravaged in Q2 2025, undergoing…
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CYBERSECURITY
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Containing Threats in Real Time: Illumio Insights Now Generally Available
Illumio Inc has announced the general availability of Illumio Insights, a… -
Tenable One surpasses 300 integrations, delivering the security industry’s most open exposure management platform
Tenable One now connects more of the security stack than…
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Rapid7 launches incident command: AI-Native SIEM empowers analysts to act with speed and precision from risk to response
Powered by SOC-tested AI and built on the Command Platform…
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CyberArk Announces Availability of Tools to Secure AI Agents in the New AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category
COMPANY NEWS: Advanced capabilities help implement identity-first security for agentic AI…
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Rapid7 Launches Active Patching, Powered by Automox, to Proactively Mitigate Risk on Vulnerable Assets Across the Entire Attack Surface
COMPANY NEWS: New automation capability enhances, continuous visibility and prioritisation with…
PEOPLE MOVES
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Nozomi Networks Names David Hope as Regional Vice President for APJ
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Datadog Appoints Roz Gregory to Drive Growth Across Australia and New Zealand
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New Relic Announces Rob Newell as Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Asia-Pacific and Japan
COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT: Proven go-to-market leader and technologist to drive continued growth…
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BlackLine Appoints Greg Hughes to Board of Directors, Expanding Enterprise Software and Strategic Growth Expertise
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How emerging technologies in critical infrastructure are expanding cyber risks
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Strategic imperative: why corporate campaigning orbits political parties in power
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How emerging technologies in critical infrastructure are expanding cyber risks
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ITWIRE TV: 19-yo autistic Aussie's 'fidget therapy' changes lives, wins 2nd in global young entrepreneur awards
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Comments
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Re: iTWire - Why A New 18-inch Laptop Makes Perfect Sense Right Now
That MSI dragon laptop looks cool! But $11,799 ....... :O I might think on a bit longer :)
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Re: iTWire - Can cyber security be a platform for innovation and growth?
Most cybersecurity is making up for weak platforms. We need to address the fundamentals, design platforms that prevent out-of-bounds access[…]
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Re: iTWire - Why Software Developers Need a Security ‘Rewards Program’
For most developers the security/performance trade off is still the hardest one to tackle, even as the cost of processing[…]
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Re: iTWire - The Risc-V architecture that can shape the future of computing
RISC has been overhyped. While it is an interesting low-level processor architecture, what the world needs is high-level system architectures,[…]
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Re: iTWire - Is Linux finally ready to storm the mainstream?
There are two flaws that are widespread in the industry here. The first is that any platform or language should[…]
