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• Guide Dogs Victoria to prototype AI assistant for blind people

  Guide Dogs Victoria (GDV) is planning to build a Siri-style platform designed specifically to cater to the needs of blind and low-vision people.

• Meet the CIO charged with saving Australia’s most endangered species

  ​One of the more unusual senior technology vacancies in Australia has been filled.

• Putting AI into your ERP strategy

  ERP lies at the heart of most organisations' business processes and is undergoing a radical transformation to meet the demands of digital business. The postmodern ERP era creates a stable, agile core that supports differentiated processes to deliver business outcomes.

• Telco complaints are too damn high, government says

  The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) could be reshaped or replaced under government proposals to deal with soaring complaints about phone and Internet services.

• Sydney Airport collaborates with Qantas for facial recognition trial

  The first stage of a pilot to test ‘couch to gate’ biometrics at Sydney Airport has gone live.

• Government signs mammoth five-year IT deal with IBM

  The federal government has signed a whole-of-government purchasing agreement with IBM worth an estimated $1 billion over its five-year lifespan.

• Vocus taps Nokia for Pacific cable rollout

  Vocus has signed an agreement with Nokia’s Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) to roll out the Coral Sea Cable system that will connect Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Solmon Islands.

• CCP to use Vodafone narrowband network for food safety

  CCP Technologies will use Vodafone’s Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) network to help connect the hardware sensors employed by its monitoring platform.

• Breaking down Dell's complex route back to becoming a public company

  After retreating from public markets in 2013, Michael Dell is looking to take his eponymous computing company back onto the stock market via a complex deal involving its VMware tracking stock.

• How Just Eat runs devops at scale

  UK-based food delivery company Just Eat runs a hugely complex devops culture across 35 software development teams in five geographies, working together to maintain 450 microservices.

• What is the Epic browser (and what makes it different)?

  Privacy is the top priority for the Chromium-based web browser.

• Government backs projects to test My Health Record’s potential

  The federal government will fund 15 trials that will use data drawn from the My Health Record system to boost patient outcomes.

• Matt Toohey leaves Bankwest for ME CIO role

  Bankwest’s former general manager of delivery and engineering, Matt Toohey, has joined ME as the bank’s new chief information officer.

• Local Google head jumps ship to Domain

  Jason Pellegrino will take the helm at Domain, with the Google managing director for Australia and New Zealand next month joining the property business as chief executive.

• SUSE to operate as independent business following EQT deal

  SUSE, best known for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, will “operate globally as an independent company” following its acquisition by EQT from Micro Focus, according to SUSE chief executive officer Nils Brauckmann.