CommsWire daily newsletter - 8 June 2022

EU agreement dictates USB-C must now be standard charging port for devices In a move that could potentially impact Apple's proprietary lightning port, European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement to require all smartphone manufacturers in Europe to make the USB-C the standard charging port for devices sold in the region, according to reports.

CommsWire daily newsletter - 3 June 2021

Thales Data Threat Report revels only 23% of businesses in Australia and New Zealand know where all their data is stored The latest data threat report from Thales shows an alarming 57% of A/NZ organisations have avoided making a mandatory breach report, among a range of other startling revelations. Equinix named to the Fortune 500 for the first time Equinix named to the Fortune 500 for the first time.

CommsWire - 18 July 2019

We've had problems with email connections for the last two weeks! We wrongly got labelled as spammers simply for sending out this newsletter every day. This is last Thursday's and I'll try and catch up. If you missed one, please go to: telsoc.org/newsletters/commswire Regards, Tim Herring

CommsWire - 9 July 2019

NBN Co 'should have supplied modems for all connections' The NBN Co miscalculated when it decided not to supply a modem to each resident on fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-building connections, the head of a small retail service provider says, adding that this could have helped the company diagnose connection issues remotely.

CommsWire - 4 April 2019

Senate panel offers no recommendations on encryption law changes The latest review into the Federal Government's encryption law, passed on 6 December last year, has made just three recommendations, none of which affect the actual text or definitions in the law, according to a 136-page report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released on Thursday.