Networking

Image: Sky and Space Global ASX-listed nanosatellite company Sky and Space Global informed the stock market on Tuesday afternoon that it had entered voluntary administration the previous day. In an announcement from accountancy firm Hall Chadwick, the administrators said a meeting with the company’s creditors would be held within eight ...

The UK government has criticized social media networks for not taking a stronger stance against conspiracy theories connecting the coronavirus outbreak to 5G technologies.  Conspiracy theorists claim that the next-generation wireless technology, currently being rolled out across the UK, has a detrimental impact on our health as it lowers our ...

Image: Spark New Zealand telco Spark has said its network is now seeing what it calls a “7-day weekend”, with increasing numbers of people working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the planet. The telco said its daytime broadband load has almost doubled, with peak broadband demand hitting ...

No one wants a naked man barging into a virtual classroom video conference, but that’s what happened in Norway-based class using the WhereBy service. Here, in the US, the enormously popular Zoom video-conferencing service meetings are getting attacked so often there’s even a phrase for it: Zoombombing.  Indeed, it’s gotten ...

Image: NBN The company responsible for deploying the National Broadband Network (NBN) across Australia has lifted the lid on how its network has been performing as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the planet. On Thursday, NBN said it was starting a new weekly report to show the highest data throughput ...

Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced it would pause its NBN entry-level access pricing and wholesale service standards inquiries to allow the industry to deal with the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the planet. At the same time, the consumer watchdog also released a position ...

Microsoft has released an emergency update to fix a Windows 10 bug that has been causing internet connectivity issues for users and preventing some Office 365 setups from reaching the cloud.  The company confirmed the internet connectivity bug on Thursday, which affected PCs and servers running all supported versions of ...

Image: Asha Barbaschow/ZDNet The contract between Huawei Australia and UGL (HUGL Consortium) and the government of Western Australian to provide the state with a digital radio system for its trains has been mutually abandoned by both parties, Minister for Transport; Planning Rita Saffioti said on Friday. Under the Radio Systems ...

Finding that your Wi-Fi just isn’t up to the job of working from home (perhaps because you’ve got a household appliance nearby that’s wreaking the signal)? A wired connection is the way to go, and this USB-C to Ethernet is one of the fastest available. The TRENDnet TUC-ET5G USB-C 3.1 ...

As if working from home wasn’t challenging enough, Microsoft has now warned that a Windows 10 bug is preventing Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and other critical work apps from reaching the internet. The Windows 10 connectivity bug couldn’t come at a worse time and is probably causing real pain ...