Computer Daily News – Page 205

Fuji Xerox Execs Stand Down As Oz Accounts Queried

Computer Daily News June 14, 2017 No Comments

The chairman of Fuji Xerox and three executives have stood down as reports spread of major accounting problems at the company’s Australian and NZ operations – but with ramifications now…

Pinterest Gets $12.3bn Value

Computer Daily News June 8, 2017 No Comments

Pinterest, which develops visual search technology and helps users to save images on its Web site, has raised US$150 million (A$198 million) from existing investors in its latest round of…

Oz On Top For Over–Top Services

Computer Daily News June 8, 2017 No Comments

Australia has the world’s highest per capita usage of non-subscription over-the-top (OTT) services, according to US based ad technology and data aggregation provider, PeerLogix. “The per capita usage in Australia…

Bye-Bye, Budde? French Interests Snap Up Bucketty’s BuddeComm

Computer Daily News June 8, 2017 No Comments

They said it would never happen. But after 40 years Dutch-born Australian telecommunications guru and smart-city advocate Paul Budde has sold his BuddeComm company – founded in forest- and stream-clad…

BlackBerry Back From The Dead

Computer Daily News June 5, 2017 No Comments

BlackBerry shares jumped up to 10 percent last week, extending recent gains after investment firm Citron Research said the Canadian technology company’s stock could double. BlackBerry’s stock has surged nearly…

NBN Co Moves To Encourage Take-Up Of Faster Speeds

Computer Daily News June 5, 2017 No Comments

NBN Co has begun using a new wholesale pricing model in an apparent bid to persuade more users to choose faster broadband offerings. The new model uses a formula that…

Project Loon Floats Again: Giant Balloons Traversing Australia

Computer Daily News June 5, 2017 No Comments

What appears to be a large cluster of Alphabet’s giant Project Loon balloons has been traversing Australia over the past week, as the company’s innovation lab ‘X’ revives its testing…

Cyber Attack Blamed As 42 Million Phone Calls Flood Centrelink

Computer Daily News June 5, 2017 No Comments

The Department of Human Services is investigating an extraordinary number of unanswered calls to its Centrelink service. It believes some were part of a cyber attack and others caused by…

HPE Posts Loss On Revenue Drop

Computer Daily News June 2, 2017 No Comments

Hewlett Packard Enterprise revenue fell 13 percent in the second quarter ended April 30, marking the steepest decline since the company was spun out from Hewlett-Packard in 2015. Th result…

Games Revenue Exceeds $100M

Computer Daily News June 2, 2017 No Comments

Revenue from computer games has exceeded US$100 billion globally in a single year for the first time, with China overtaking the US as games capital of the world. A report…