Category: ITnews

23
Jan
2023

Australia Post experiences online services outage – Software

Australia Post customers spent several hours on Monday unable to access MyPost Business and MyPost Consumer online services or track…

23
Jan
2023

Defence seeks quantum comms research – Networking

The Department of Defence is looking for researchers to work on quantum communication technologies. In a tender published earlier this…

Suncorp Group rolling out 13,600 Surface devices
23
Jan
2023

Suncorp Group rolling out 13,600 Surface devices – Cloud – Hardware

Suncorp general manager of IT infrastructure Charles Pizzato. Suncorp Group has signed a new three-year agreement with Microsoft covering its…

Clarence City Council looks for new CIO
23
Jan
2023

Clarence City Council looks for new CIO – Strategy – Training & Development

Vivien Patterson. LinkedIn Tasmania’s Clarence City Council is searching for a new chief information officer as  incumbent Vivien Patterson prepares…

22
Jan
2023

SA Police asks for easier emergency access to geolocation data – Security – Telco/ISP

South Australia Police is pressing for more permissive access to cellular location data in emergencies, arguing proposed law changes don’t…

22
Jan
2023

QUT alerts staff, students to data breach – Security

Queensland University of Technology has alerted 2500 staff and 67 students that their personal information was breached in a late…

21
Jan
2023

AWS to invest another US$35 billion in Virginia – Networking

Amazon Web Services plans to invest another US$35 billion (A$50.3 billion) by 2040 to expand data centres in Virginia. AWS…

21
Jan
2023

Google parent cuts 12,000 jobs – Training & Development

Google’s parent Alphabet is cutting about 12,000 jobs as it faces “a different economic reality”, it said in a staff…

20
Jan
2023

Slack plug-and-play tools accelerate automation – Partner Content

As an organisation, Slack has always been on the lookout for the best ways to accelerate innovation and collaboration. Initially,…

20
Jan
2023

Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre restructured – Strategy – Security

The government’s Cyber Infrastructure Security Centre ended 2022 with an organisational and executive restructure. CISC head Hamish Hansford wrote in…

20
Jan
2023

Flying Doctor takes on Starlink for regional access – Telco/ISP

The Royal Flying Doctor Service in Queensland has directly partnered with Starlink to deploy a three-site regional satellite service to…

20
Jan
2023

Meta’s WhatsApp fined 5.5 million euro by privacy regulator – Strategy

Meta’s WhatsApp subsidiary was fined 5.5 million euros (A$8.6 million) on Thursday by Ireland’s Data Privacy Commissioner (DPC), its lead…