Optus tests 5G mmWave spectrum at 4 locations in Sydney
Australian telco Optus is now testing 5G mmWave at 4 locations in Sydney. In a statement, the telecommunication giant said it has the approval of ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) to run and test 5G millimetre wave technology that uses the 26 GHz band....
Zeller secures $6.3m seed funding to enter the business banking market
Melbourne-based fintech startup Zeller has managed to secure $6.3 million in a seed funding round. The funding round was led by Square Peg Capital, an Australian venture capital firm. Paul Bassat, the VC firmā€™s co-founder and partner will be joining as a member of the...
Australian Government to Invest AU$19 Million in Health AI Research Projects
The Morrison government announced it will be investing AU$19 million over the next 3 years in health AI research projects designed to diagnose, prevent and treat various medical conditions. The funding will be channelled in 5 health-based artificial intelligence projects in total. 2 of the...
Siemens Pursues Telstra Customers for Pirated Software Use
Software company Siemens has made a move to go after 20 users behind IP addresses that it believes are using a cracked version of its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. The computer software company found these 20 users of pirated versions of its software are...
Rocket company Gilmour Space says space flights possible within 10 years
Gold Coast space rocket company Gilmour Space Technologies says flying to space will be possible 10 years from now without leaving the state. The Australian space company said this after a 45-second ‘hot fire’ test of their upper-stage hybrid rocket engine was successfully carried out...
Services Australia loses its CISO Narelle Devine to Telstra
Narelle Devine, Chief Information Security Officer of Services Australia, has decided to step away from her role to join telco giant Telstra. She will take over the role of CISO for Asia Pacific region July 27th onwards replacing Berin Lautenbach who left earlier in June.Ā ...
Australian cyber startup Kasada raises $10 million to expand in the US
Kasada, an Australian cyber security company, has bagged funding of $10 million to expand its operations in the United States. Ten Eleven Ventures, a cybersecurity venture capital specialist, led the Series B round of funding, in addition to existing investors Reinventure (Westpac’s venture capital arm)...
NSW Govt plans Australia’s largest tech hub in Sydney
The NSW Government has announced Australia’s largest tech hub along with home-grown technology giant Atlassian pitching in as an anchor tenant. The tech hub will be in Sydney and will be known as ‘Tech Central’. The NSW Government will be investing an amount of $48.2...
TPG-Vodafone Australia $15 billion merger gets shareholders approval
Australian telecommunications and IT company TPG Telecomā€™s shareholders have approved the proposed merger worth of $15 billion with Vodafone Hutchinson Australia. VHA said that 99 percent of the TPG shareholders present at the meeting on Wednesday voted in favour of the merger. The shareholders also...
CSIRO’s Data61 develops ‘Void’ to prevent voice spoofing attacks
CSIRO’s digital strategy arm, Data61 has come up with a new technique to prevent voice spoofing attacks – Voice liveness detection (Void). Void has been developed in association with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and Samsung Research. Voice spoofing is a malicious technique used by scammers...
