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AWS Snowmobile Roars In To Truck Exabytes Of Data To Cloud

Computer Daily News December 5, 2016 No Comments

Amazon.com has used its reInvent event here to introduce the remarkable AWS Snowball – enormous trucks loaded with gear that can store up to 100 petabytes of data and move…

Telecoms Panel: Only Six Make It – Optus, Fujitsu Left Behind

Computer Daily News December 5, 2016 No Comments

Nextgen Networks, Sliced Tech and Verizon Australia are among the local telcos that have made it onto the Federal Government’s new six-member Telecommunications Services panel. They join Macquarie Telecom, Telstra,…

ANZ Strikes Again: After Apple Pay Comes BladePay

Computer Daily News December 5, 2016 No Comments

The ANZ Bank, fresh from establishing itself as a satisfied customer of Apple for its Apple Pay digital wallet system for consumers, has now launched BladePay, an Android-based mobile payments…

Amazon To Get In Your Face

Computer Daily News December 2, 2016 No Comments

Amazon.com has introduced an image recognition service, a speech-to-text service dubbed Polly, and “Lex,” which will let customers build conversational apps similar to its Alexa voice-activated platform. Amazon Web Services…

Huge Start-Up Precinct Plan Headed For Sydney’s Barangaroo

Computer Daily News December 2, 2016 No Comments

Plans are said to be well under way to build Australia’s biggest facility for housing start-ups at the Harbour City’s classy Barangaroo waterfront precinct, a few metres west of the…

Mobile Market Fails To Grow – But 4G An Emerging-World Hit

Computer Daily News December 2, 2016 No Comments

As CN well knows, there are two sides to every story, especially when it comes to statistics, so it’s no surprise that the latest figures from industry analyst IDC are…

Amazon Signals Cloud Price War

Computer Daily News December 1, 2016 No Comments

Amazon is banking on a range of price cuts to lure more customers to its AWS cloud computing business as 30,000 delegates arrive in the Vegas gambling mecca for its…

Desktops Still Outpacing Mobile Devices In Aussie Workplaces

Computer Daily News December 1, 2016 No Comments

Desktop computers, rather than mobile gadgets and phones, will continue to be the most popular workplace devices in the near future, according to a new Gartner survey covering 9592 respondents…

Aussie Web Downloads Double

Computer Daily News December 1, 2016 No Comments

Australia’s Internet downloads have more than doubled over the past two years, largely reflecting the growing market for online video, according to the latest report from the Australian Communications and…

Dipstick Shorten, Seeks 457 Visa Crackdown

Computer Daily News December 1, 2016 No Comments

Labor leader Bill Shorten has joined US president-elect Donald Trump in calling for a crackdown on special visa systems that allow many companies– including technology outfits – to import guest…