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• Govt report reveals cost of data retention for Australia’s telcos

  15-08-2018 11:35
  As of the end of FY17, Australian telecommunications providers had incurred more than $176 million in capital costs related to complying with the government’s mandatory data retention regime.
  
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• Wireless services may cost more than fixed line with new NBN Co pricing

  15-08-2018 11:25
  NBN Co is preparing to launch a bundled fixed wireless product that will see retail service providers (RSPs) pay significantly more than for the equivalent fixed line offering.
  
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• Optus stops chasing Telstra over ‘unlimited’ ad damages

  15-08-2018 08:07
  Optus has stopped chasing Telstra over damages the Singtel subsidiary it may have suffered due to a Telstra “unlimited” advertising campaign, which a court found to be misleading.
  
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• Telstra starts declaring mobile sites ‘5G-ready’

  15-08-2018 07:27
  Telstra revealed today that it had begun switching on 5G support at a range of its mobile sites on the Gold Coast, as it prepares to begin offering services based on the new standard.
  
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• Soros Fund Management adds popular tech names, BlackRock in second quarter

  15-08-2018 03:22
  Soros Fund Management LLC added Facebook Inc, Apple Inc and Twitter Inc, but trimmed stakes in Alphabet Inc and Amazon.com Inc in the quarter through June, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
  
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• ACCC tasked with drawing up new open banking rules

  15-08-2018 03:08
  It will be the role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to determine how a new Consumer Data Right (CDR) will apply to a particular sector of the economy, under draft legislation released today by the government.
  
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• Musk bid for Tesla: no formal offer, no firm deals with advisers

  15-08-2018 02:53
  Tesla Inc's board named a special committee of three directors on Tuesday to decide what to do about Chief Executive Elon Musk's potential offer to take the electric carmaker private, although Musk has yet to make a formal offer and is still negotiating to hire advisers needed to do a deal.
  
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• Major Tesla shareholders trimmed stakes last quarter: filings

  15-08-2018 02:53
  Two major Tesla Inc shareholders cut their stakes in the electric automaker during the second quarter, before Chief Executive Elon Musk announced he would try to take the company private earlier this month.
  
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• Intel discloses three more chip flaws

  15-08-2018 01:08
  Intel has disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory.
  
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• What are microservices?

  15-08-2018 01:04
  The origin of the term 'microservices' may not be that easy to pin down, but over the past decade the approach to application development and management has reached near ubiquity in the enterprise, with everyone from Spotify to the BBC shifting from monolithic architectures to embrace microservices.
  
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