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Mobility 28,843 articles

Telstra to pay AU$10 million fine

The Australian Federal Court has ordered Telstra to pay AU$10 million in penalties for making false or misleading representations to consumers on the management of its premium direct billing (PDB) services.

0 minutes ago in Mobility

Security 28,982 articles

DFAT backs automation of awful manual process for facial verification

A computer could not do a worse job than what the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has in place already, its submission argues.

38 minutes ago by Chris Duckett in Security

Legal 4,529 articles

NextDC agrees to conditional third-party access to APDC datacentres

Counsel for both parties have agreed that NextDC will allow a prospective purchaser to inspect the three sites it currently leases off APDC, providing written notice is received 24 hours beforehand.

5 hours ago by Asha McLean in Legal

Innovation 28,678 articles

Alibaba pilots blockchain supply chain initiative down under

Blackmores and Fonterra have joined the pilot that will see products shipped to China from Australia and New Zealand in first trial of Alibaba's blockchain-based Food Trust Framework.

7 hours ago by Asha McLean in Innovation

Windows 10 825 articles

Apple makes iTunes available in the Microsoft Store

Apple's iTunes is officially available from the Microsoft Store, a year after plans for its arrival were announced.

8 hours ago by Mary Jo Foley in Windows 10

SMBs 1,611 articles

Square buys website builder Weebly for $365 million

The deal marks Square's second acquisition in a week's time following its purchase of the catering platform Zesty.

10 hours ago by Natalie Gagliordi in SMBs

Hardware 32,612 articles

Intel reports strong Q1, accelerates growth in data center business

CEO Brian Krzanich noted that Intel's data-centric businesses accounted for almost half of Q1 revenue.

11 hours ago by Natalie Gagliordi in Hardware

Amazon 1,574 articles

Amazon shares climb as AWS brings in huge Q1 profits

Amazon soared past Q1 earnings estimates, with Amazon Web Services accounting for the bulk of its operating income.

11 hours ago by Stephanie Condon in Amazon

Cloud 7,212 articles

Microsoft shines in Q3 as cloud, Office 365 posts strong sales gains

Microsoft's third quarter results were strong across its various units. Office 365 remains the juggernaut.

11 hours ago by Larry Dignan in Cloud

Artificial Intelligence 553 articles

Qure.ai launches AI system to read head CT scans and find abnormalities

Fractal Analytics is funding the Qure.ai efforts and plans to invest up to $30 million over the next few years. Qure.ai's dataset and AI validation are published.

11 hours ago by Larry Dignan in Artificial Intelligence

Enterprise Software 41,262 articles

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: The Linux for AI, clouds, and containers

Ubuntu will still live on as a desktop operating system, but that's not where Canonical sees it as having its greatest potential.

12 hours ago by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols in Enterprise Software

Storage 3,456 articles

Why SATA flash drives are being left in the dust

The SATA interface on SSDs was a marriage of convenience, not love. Flash SSDs are so fast that SATA simply can't keep up. But NVMe can, and that is changing how how systems are configured and infrastructures are designed.

18 hours ago by Robin Harris in Storage