Supratim Adhikari
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New Google outage locks users out of Gmail
Google has suffered its second service hiccup inside five weeks, with users globally temporarily locked out of a number of applications, including the email service Gmail. → Read More
Free public Wi-Fi a consumer security risk
Public Wi-Fi is now common in Australian cities and the general consumer connecting to these networks more often than not assumes the networks are secure. → Read More
Optus steals Telstra’s network crown
Optus has knocked Telstra off its perch when it comes to delivering quality and data service to Australian homes, with the telcos network ranked the overall winner in the latest P3 connect Mobile Benchmark test. → Read More
Pyne is compromised, if not by the dirty tweet by the hack
Christopher Pynes Twitter headache has once again laid bare the perils of social media for people in positions of power. The Defence Industry Minister accuses hackers of hijacking his official Twitter account and blames them for the like on an explicit gay porn tweet. However, that claim in itself raises some red flags. → Read More
NBN Co promises service relief, flags fall in complaints
NBN Co boss Bill Morrow has promised that consumer experience on the National Broadband Network will improve in the coming months, hinting that the company may take a more hands-on role in communicating with households. → Read More
Atlassian headquarters gets rainbow makeover
Australian software giant Atlassian has joined a number leading local companies in reinforcing their support for same-sex marriage, with the companys head of diversity Aubrey Blanche saying that fostering diversity and inclusion should be part of ever businesss corporate philosophy. → Read More
Canberra reveals 5G road map
The federal government has taken another step in outlining its role in the development of 5G mobile technology in the country with the launch of a directions paper and a move to set up a working group to foster collaboration in the space. → Read More
Titomic seeks to beat the Russians at the titanium game
Melbourne-based additive manufacturing outfit Titomic hopes its technology pitch will cut through to savvy investors as it gets ready to land on the ASX later this month. → Read More
PagerDuty incident manager to launch in Australia
San Francisco-based PagerDuty, a company that provides software to manage digital operations and resolve incidents faster, is launching in Australia. → Read More
Uber threat as Hop challenges ride-sharing market
Uber is about to get a dose of fresh competition in the Australian ride-share market with new entrant Hops founder Zeryab Cheema promising to give customers, and more importantly drivers, a fair deal. → Read More
Turnbull government rejects ‘NBN tax’ talk
The Turnbull Government has rejected calls that its proposed Regional Broadband Scheme is a new tax on broadband users. The RBS is part of a comprehensive reform package put to the parliament by the federal government on Thursday which also includes shifting the responsibility of universal service provision from Telstra to NBN Co, the company rolling out the National Broadband Network. → Read More
Kogan enters NBN fray
Kogan.com is finally making its entry into the National Broadband Network, with the online retailers telecommunications arm to offer fixed broadband services from next year. → Read More
457 visa changes to hurt start-ups
The Turnbull governments move to can the 457 visa program is making Australian technology businesses nervous with the start-up community in particular worried by the prospect of an acute staff shortage. → Read More
Making waves in the valley: Aussie start-up story is turning heads
Canberras rhetoric around technology may have cooled a touch but thats not stopping some of the first generation of Australias start-ups from building a presence back on their home turf. → Read More
Perth outage headache for Telstra
The fire in the Chatswood exchange in Sydney isn’t the only infrastructure headache to hit Telstra in the last 24 hours, with a damaged cable knocking out the telco’s services in Perth. → Read More
ATO flags forensic review of IT debacle
The Australian Taxation Office is set to undertake a forensic review of the IT failure that knocked its customer-facing sites and systems offline for two days. → Read More
Fiber Corp looks to fill NBN gap
The tortured politics surrounding the National Broadband Network has opened the doors for a number of independent broadband infrastructure providers to step into the breach. → Read More
NBN chair defiant on convention breach
NBN Co non-executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski has confirmed that both the company’s board and the Department of Communications had been consulted prior to the publication of a controversial opinion piece that was found to be in breach of caretaker conventions. → Read More
Taskforce launched to shake-up IT procurement
The Turnbull government is looking to shake-up public sector tech procurement with a push to get smaller players involved in bidding for government ICT contracts. → Read More
Amazon targets Aussie market
The entry of online retail giant Amazon.com into the Australian market has been seen as an existentialist threat to local retailers for some time now. → Read More