Category: ITnews

Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones
08
Dec
2025

Vocus seeks four new submarine cable protection zones

Vocus is lobbying the government to more than double the number of submarine cable protection zones in Australia and to…

DTA in push to drive up government cloud use
08
Dec
2025

DTA in push to drive up government cloud use

Federal government departments and agencies will be pushed to use more cloud services from July 2026 under a new whole-of-government…

TfNSW to replace traffic nerve centre core systems
07
Dec
2025

TfNSW to replace traffic nerve centre core systems

Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is looking to upgrade and simplify the stack of core systems it uses in its transport…

Samsung hits back, warns against old tech for triple zero
07
Dec
2025

Samsung hits back, warns against old tech for triple zero

Samsung has warned the federal triple zero inquiry and mobile carriers not to rely on legacy technologies for triple zero…

Allianz Life says majority of US customers' data stolen in hack
05
Dec
2025

WA makes its chief data officer permanent

The Western Australian government has made Natalia Kacperek its permanent chief data officer after two years acting in the role….

NEXTDC to build AI campus and GPU
05
Dec
2025

NEXTDC to build AI campus and GPU “supercluster” in Sydney

NEXTDC will build an AI campus and GPU “supercluster” in Western Sydney that will power OpenAI’s services in Australia. From…

Meta to block Facebook and Instagram for Australian teens by December 10
05
Dec
2025

Meta to cut up to 30 percent of metaverse budget

Meta is expected to make budget cuts of up to 30 percent for its metaverse initiative, Bloomberg News reported, citing…

Seqwater seeking asset planning tool to overcome
05
Dec
2025

Seqwater seeking asset planning tool to overcome “functional limitations”

Seqwater, South East Queensland’s water management authority, is looking for dedicated software to replace its spreadsheet-based asset and investment planning tools. …

Cochlear plugs AI into its global contact centre operations
04
Dec
2025

Cochlear plugs AI into its global contact centre operations

Cochlear is starting to make use of the AI capabilities in its Amazon Connect contact centre platform, automating its evaluation…

Telstra, Optus, TPG build new list of devices causing trouble for triple zero
04
Dec
2025

Samsung tried to fix triple zero problem with mobiles nearly five years ago

The mystery over why owners of a group of 71 Samsung mobile phone models couldn’t place emergency calls properly has…

Australia says the world will follow its social media ban
04
Dec
2025

Australia says the world will follow its social media ban

Australia’s internet regulator said a teen social media ban would be the first domino to fall in a global push…

South32 upgrades its onboarding with SuccessFactors
04
Dec
2025

South32 upgrades its onboarding with SuccessFactors

South32 is continuing to work through a HR transformation, having recently upgraded the SAP technology that enables it to onboard…