Irrigation company WaterForce has selected Vodafone to supply a global SIM and cloud-based data management services to enable it to offer overseas its SCADAfarm service that allows farmers to control, monitor and manage their irrigation and pump systems remotely.
The Australian government is being urged to fund the extension to Norfolk Island of the $US300m Hawaiki Cable that will link Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii to the US.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) and Nokia staged their first trial of 5G mobile technology in Australia at the University of Technology, Sydney, where Vodafone is supporting researchers working on 5G technologies.
Privacy Commissioner John Edwards says the infamous hack of up to 500 million Yahoo email accounts demonstrates the importance of New Zealand introducing mandatory breach notification.
Telstra has brought its software-defined network services offerings PEN (the former Pacnet Enabled Network) and its own SDN/NFV service developed in conjunction with Cisco under the umbrella of its cloud services division.
Telstra has announced plans to launch in December functionality on its LTE network that will give emergency services organisations (ESOs) priority access to network capacity.
Telstra and Microsoft have formed a partnership to deliver managed enterprise voice services to Office 365 customers, and to co-develop offerings that they say will be unique to the Australian market.
After initially experimenting with hyperconverged infrastructure for a small project New Zealand’s Massey University is now deploying Nutanix equipment to handle its mission-critical student management system. The university says it is planning further deployment of the technology.
Telstra and Ericsson have staged the first public demonstration in Australia of 5G mobile technology, with Telstra saying its early participation in 5G is essential to enable it to ensure that the evolving standards meet Australia’s requirements.
HP Inc has announced plans to introduce a range of A3 printer copiers in at bid to boost its share of the A3 printer copier market from five percent. However none of the products will be available this year, and some not until late 2017.
HP Inc is transitioning its customer relationship management from Salesforce to Microsoft Dynamics as part of a revamp of its channel partner program.
US startup, Cloud Constellation is planning a celestial information superhighway: A network of low earth orbit satellites, dubbed Spacebelt, that will act as orbiting data storage devices and provide secure and encrypted communication between any two points on most of the earth’s surface without the traffic having to touch any terrestrial communications infrastructure.
Optical switching and transmission system manufacturer, Infinera, has released a suite of software that adds software defined networking functionality to networks built with its equipment, enabling networks to be created on-demand at the level of individual optical wavelengths and up to Layer 3.
Australia’s top 50 websites could be helping steer end users towards malware, according to cyber security company Menlo Security, which is about to enter the Australian market with what it says is a solution to the problem.
Telstra has taken the wraps of a new broadcast operations centre built in its former Sydney CBD exchange building at 76 Pitt Street. The centre manages the delivery of video broadcast content for both domestic and international broadcasters and is the hub of Telstra’s Global Media Network.