English News and Press Release on Bahamas about Education, Food and Nutrition, Children, Tropical Cyclone and more; published on 13 Sep 2019 by Govt.
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Accredited as Top Pick for Regional Coverage Optus today announced that until 30 June 2019 it is the only authorised Australian stockist of Samsungs...
ACMA has handed out directions to comply with the IPND industry code.
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The FCC has officially issued this year's Broadband Deployment Report, summarizing the extent to which the agency and industry have closed the digital divide ...
Telstra is selling its stake in its Phonewords business to a consortium led by the company's founder Gavin Scholes and Aura Funds Management.
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Queensland-based Fonebox, an inbound telecommunications *service* provider, has sold to US technology company J2 Global for $30 million.
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National Warranty Services forced to stop trading after 18 months of hardship.
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There is a two-way benefit. Australian students at the school get a reverse flow of cultural experience and travel opportunities.
The founder of Telstra PhoneWords, Gavin Scholes, and investors led by Aura Funds Management, have acquired Telstra PhoneWords and promise to help wit.
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UIDAI says the toll free number 1800-300-1947 in the contact list of Android phones is an 'outdated and invalid number'
A University of Melbourne expert says although India is now 99 per cent electrified, the country's power supply is a key issue in the upcoming general election.
An elderly Mandurah woman is urging others to be conscious of sneaky tricks after a scam scare earlier this week.
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Laptops holding 30 years' worth of applicant data were stolen from the University of Western Australia late last month, the university's vice-chancellor revealed at ...
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Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies will launch its Wi-Fi 6 access point, AP7060DN, on Monday, with the company dubbing it.
The telecommunications regulator, The Australian Communications and Media Authority, continues to clamp down on unlawful telemarketing and breaches of...
Top prize is a trip to Mimecast's headquarters in Boston.
Australian encryption technology firm Senetas has raised the possibility that it may be forced to manufacture its products outside the country if the...
SUNSHINE Coast residents have been warned of a sophisticated Central African phone scam which could cost them dearly when they call back.
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Traditional marketing (eg, segmentation and campaigns) wasn't working for HSBC Australia or its customers, according to head of data, analytics and de...
Netflix says nearly 14 million Australians now have access to some form of pay TV or subscription TV, up 11.8% on a year ago, with the increase driven...
NEC Australia and Stratum ICT have unveiled their Northern Territory Triple Zero contact system that allows Aboriginal communities to access recordings in their ...
Second Quarter Results. Revenue excluding sale transactions and one-time items shows year-on-year organic growth; International telecom results reflect ...
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The latest data for the Roy Morgan employment series for June shows: In June 1.25 million Australians were unemployed (9.2% of the workforce) with an ...
Jordan Grives is ambitious. In every, single possible sense of the word. At just 19 years of age, he found himself pitching his then brand new telecommunications ...
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Telstra plans to cut a quarter of its contractors in two years, a reduction of 10,000 people on its payroll and adding to thousands of internal jobs slated to go.
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Australia's government agencies made approximately 333,980 authorisations for the disclosure of historical telecommunications data – or metadata – during the ...
SpaceX is about to send the PSN 6 satellite and several rideshare payloads to geostationary transfer orbit, including a lunar lander poised to make history.
The US economy appears to be expanding based "exclusively" on government, corporate and mortgage debt, DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach said.
Melbourne-based Elenium Automation has completed a $15 million capital raising with funding from high-profile investors as it continues the design, de...
Data collected by Scamwatch has revealed that Australians have so far in 2019 lost $6.2 million to scams with the intent to gain citizens' personal information.
A researcher at Netflix Security has warned of a number of TCP flaws in the Linux and FreeBSD kernels, one of which can be used to send a so-called pi...
The Australian National University in Canberra has suffered a massive data breach with personal details of staff, students and visitors over the past...
Australia's No.1 Bank, the Commonwealth Bank, has unveiled the latest version of what it says is "Australia's number one banking app", CommBank app 4....
An investment by Westpac's venture capital funds suggests ASX-listed Credit Corp and Collection House will face pressure from a new platform with a *fresh* ...
Reports that millions of servers running the mail transport agent Exim are being attacked through a recently announced vulnerability are unreliable, a...
The under-representation of female IT graduates in Australia means only 20 per cent of IT graduates are women.
The two largest smartphone sellers Samsung and Huawei managed to defy the global smartphone decline in shipments and grow numbers shipped solidly in t...
A week before our lunch, Gold Coast entrepreneur Travers “Candyman” Beynon posted on his Instagram feed a photo of bikini-clad women eating potato chips ...
A 21-year-old man from Sydney has been charged with helping run a credential-selling *service* following a bust by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The man ...
In 1995, I was running a small fledgling dial-up ISP in Australia, and we lived for the telephone to ring. There were no email campaigns, no online sign...
After experiencing poor support from its former telco provider, Wollongong-based IT and telecommunications company IT&T decided it was time to make a switch ...
The Gold Coast's most controversial entrepreneur wants his brand to go beyond cigarettes and smutty images.
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The CVC costs set by the NBN Co make it very difficult for ISPs to offer gigabit connections to more than a select band of customers who are willing t...
Ending a major hit show is not easy for any network. But the departure of “Game of Thrones,” which begins its eighth and farewell season on Sunday comes at a ...
A new paper focuses on how to prepare for natural disasters so that physicians who provide radiation therapy to patients with cancer have guidelines for what to ...
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First Quarter Results. International Telecom Operations Continued to Show Strong Growth; U.S. Telecom Comparisons Reflected Impact of Lower Year-on-Year ...
Advanced ticketing technology to cater for driverless trains has been installed on Sydney's metro train system which opens on 26 May. The system, inst...
The inherent weakness at the heart of the real-time payments platform PayID has been exposed, with the details of about 100000 Australians being leak...
The Australian Catholic University has been hit by a data breach, with the attacker(s) using a phishing email to trick users into revealing their cred...
Application downtime costs Australian businesses an average of more than $762000 per incident, according to new research. A survey of 1000 Australian...
Deakin University has migrated its security information and event management (SIEM) to Exabeam following a partnership with security services provider Zirilio.
Announcing companies include 8x8, Cisco Systems, Inc., *Content* Guru, Plantronics-Polycom, Vonage Business, Zailab, and more.
With the help of multi-Gold Medal winning Olympian Sally Pearson, Huawei has launched two new models in its existing Watch GT range in Australia, one...
Continuing attacks on directory name services have prompted ICANN to prompt enterprise DNS uses to push their suppliers for DNSSEC services to block some ...
If you want to use two SIMs in your new iPhone XS, XS Max or XR, then unless you have a select Chinese model with two physical SIM slots, you'll need...
By edhat staff. Santa Barbara County and City of Goleta officials joined Cox Communications' representatives for a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday.