Ry Crozier

4 days ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Telstra accidentally disabled an emergency call service for people with hearing and speech impairments last year after a server migration. The 106 service, which can be used with a teletypewriter (TTY) or a device for the deaf, was inaccessible for almost 13 hours between July 5 and 6 last year.

5 days ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Orica will go live with a new payroll and workforce management system in Australia in July, the “biggest and most complex country” being migrated under a multi-year transformation. The ASX-listed mining and infrastructure solutions provider chose Dayforce as the foundation of its new global HR system in early 2023, with Deloitte engaged to assist with the implementation.

5 days ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

A supercomputer hosted at a NextDC facility in Melbourne’s northern suburbs has been switched on, about nine months after it was promised. The machine, based on Nvidia DGX H200 systems, is run by La Trobe’s Australian Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Medical Innovation (ACAMI), which was launched last year. It will use AI “to develop immunotherapies, cancer vaccines, med-tech and healthcare,” La Trobe said in a statement.

5 days ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Telstra has commercially launched Starlink-backed satellite-to-mobile messaging just weeks after live trials, albeit initially only for Samsung Galaxy S25 series devices “updated with the latest software”. The service, which allows the transmission of text messages when outside the telco’s mobile network coverage area, is “available for consumer and small business customers on Telstra month-to-month mobile plans”, consumer executive Tom Beach said.

6 days ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Firefighters in Victoria say that critical IT systems have failed six times in as many weeks, with the union asking for a parliamentary inquiry. The United Firefighters Union said Sunday that “three separate IT systems” failed on April 26, May 2, May 24, May 26, May 27 and May 31. The systems are used “to dispatch trucks, track crews, coordinate resources” and locate hydrants, the union said in a statement.