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• ACCC could monitor performance of NBN fixed wireless service

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says it engaged in a “few exploratory talks” with the federal government about expanding its broadband monitoring project to cover NBN fixed wireless services.

• Apple combats iPhone throttling backlash with new iOS 12 features

  The moves announced by Apple amount to focusing on keeping its base of 1.3 billion users satisfied with their devices and catching up with some competitors.

• Vodafone CFO decamps to Foxtel

  Vodafone Hutchison Australia’s chief financial officer, James Marsh, is leaving his role after half a decade at the telco.

• Westpac ‘hybrid platform’ cloud play delivers savings, CIO says

  Westpac Group chief information officer Dave Curran says that the shift to an “offsite private cloud” built and operated by IBM from the vendor’s data centres is paying off for the bank.

• Total virtual currency sales jump in 2018 but monthly trend slows

  Virtual currency sales ballooned to US$9.1 billion so far this year, exceeding the $6.6 billion total for all of 2017, a financial technology data provider reported on Monday, but it said the monthly trend actually showed a slowdown if the two biggest offerings are excluded.

• Microsoft buys GitHub for US$7.5b - should developers be concerned?

  Microsoft has acquired GitHub for US$7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. Github's 85 million code repositories and 28 million users make it the internet’s largest code repository. Microsoft will hope to accelerate its growth, attract further developers to the Microsoft range of platforms and integrate GitHub with the Azure cloud that is central to the company's strategy.

• NBN considers throttling fixed wireless ‘superusers’

  NBN is examining ways it to minimise the impact of what CEO Bill Morrow has dubbed “superusers” on the performance of its fixed-wireless service, including potentially introducing a ‘fair use’ policy.

• Aussie mobile service provider Kogan coming to NZ

  Australian Securities Exchange listed online retailer and mobile virtual network operator Kogan.com (ASX: KGN) will offer telecommunications services in New Zealand under an agreement with Vodafone.

• Toshiba chip unit sold for $23.7b

  Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Friday it had completed the US$18 billion (A$23.7) sale of its chip unit to a consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital.

• Commonwealth Bank to settle AUSTRAC action for $700 million

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the anti-money-laundering watchdog, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), have resolved civil proceedings launched in August last year.

• How open source supports CERN's Large Hadron Collider

  The 27-kilometre-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) buried beneath the France-Switzerland border near Geneva is best known for helping to prove the existence of the Higgs' Boson particle - otherwise known as the God particle - crucial to the Standard Model of particle physics.

• Amazon joins list of blockchain-as-a-service providers

  Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the list of blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) providers that already includes IBM, HP, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.

• Cisco taps AMD to power a hyper-dense server for data centers, edge computing

  Cisco announces the C-Series C4200 server, a 2RU box comprised of the C4200 chassis and C125 server nodes that boosts processor-core density 128% using AMD EPYC 7000 CPUs.

• Flaccid phone features foment ‘flagship fatigue’

  The smartphone market isn’t growing. Average phone prices are declining. And brash smartphone startups are going out of business. That’s the good news.

• Commonwealth Bank details email domain snafu

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has released details of an investigation into hundreds of emails containing customer information being erroneously sent to external addresses.