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    Southern Phone takes title of most complained about telco in Comms Alliance report

    Image: Communications Alliance After a six-month stint at the top of the Communications Alliance Complaints in Context report, MyRepublic has relinquished its title of Australia’s most complained about telco, with Southern Phone picking up the mantle. The latest instalment of the report states that overall complaints returned to 7.1 complaints per 10,000 services in operation […] More

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    Aruba rolls out AI-powered, cloud native platform for the network edge

    Aruba on Tuesday announced a new AI-powered, cloud-native platform for the network edge, designed to pre-emptively spot and resolve problems. The Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) uses AIOps, Zero Trust network security and a unified infrastructure approach to improve services for campus, data center, branch and remote worker locations. By leveraging data from the network, […] More

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    SpaceX: We've launched 32,000 Linux computers into space for Starlink internet

    Each of SpaceX’s monthly launches of 60 internet-beaming Starlink satellites carries 4,000 stripped-back Linux computers, SpaceX software engineers have revealed.  SpaceX engineers disclosed the detail in a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) session over the weekend.  Elon Musk’s rocket company last week launched 60 more internet-beaming satellites into space on a reused Falcon 9 rocket, […] More

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    Elon Musk: 'Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong'

    Just three days after Elon Musk told his 35 million Twitter followers he would be “off Twitter for a while”, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla has used the platform to call for Amazon to be broken up by regulators.  “Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong,” Musk wrote in a tweet directed Amazon CEO […] More

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    SK Telecom invests in Israeli digital X-ray firm Nanox

    SK Telecom has invested an additional $20 million into Nanox, an Israeli medical imaging company, the company said on Friday. It is in addition to the initial $5 million investment the telco made a year ago during Nanox’s seeding round. With the new investment, SK Telecom has become the second largest shareholder of the firm. […] More

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    New SpaceX launch: Starlink closes in on 800 internet-beaming satellite target for US service

    Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched another 60 internet-beaming satellites, bringing the company’s constellation to around 480.  The latest batch of Starlink satellites marks the eighth launch so far and follows this week’s SpaceX launch of two US astronauts to the International Space Station.  Networking The Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air […] More

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    Cisco's warning: Critical flaw in IOS routers allows 'complete system compromise'

    Cisco has disclosed four critical security flaws affecting router equipment that uses its IOS XE and IOS software.  The four critical flaws are part of Cisco’s June 3 semi-annual advisory bundle for IOS XE and IOS networking software, which includes 23 advisories describing 25 vulnerabilities.  Networking The 9.8 out of 10 severity bug, CVE-2020-3227, concerns […] More

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    NBN moves coronavirus CVC boost cut off date to August 19

    Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia announced on Thursday it was moving the cut off date for its coronavirus-related capacity boost to August 19. In mid-March, NBN said ISPs would be able to increase the amount of capacity they purchase by 40% at no additional charge. At […] More