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• Apple’s AirPower wireless charger may already be in production – and shipping soon

  After missing its own 2018 deadline for shipping a multi-device wireless charger, industry speculation now has the AirPower charging pad on the assembly line and ready to ship soon.

• Walgreens and Microsoft partner to develop digital healthcare services

  US pharmacy chain Walgreens Boots Alliance and Microsoft have entered a seven-year agreement to research and develop new methods of delivering healthcare services through digital devices.

• Chrome to take ad blocking worldwide in July

  Google's browser targets what it calls 'disruptive' advertising and will expand blocking practices it's had in place in North America and Europe since last year.

• Mozilla launches CSS Flexbox inspector

  The powerful but complex flexible-elements CSS feature stumps many developers

• Coding, cloud skills are most in demand for network pros

  To get ahead, network and data-center professionals should study up on "infrastructure as code" and capitalize on whatever cloud experience they can acquire.

• Telstra adds transpacific capacity to subsea cable network

  Telstra today revealed that it had purchased additional capacity on the New Cross Pacific (NCP) cable as well as undertaken a “further investment” in the FASTER cable system.

• Cisco adds July geolocation tech, targets mobile enterprise apps

  Cisco cloud-based DNA Spaces includes Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience and enterprise geolocation tech purchased from July Systems.

• NBN Co eyes faster time to market with programmable network push

  NBN Co announced today that it had become the first Australian commercial network operator to join the Open Networking Foundation (Australia’s AARNet is an ONF “collaborator”).

• British company plans to launch Braille e-reader

  A British company plans to launch a Braille e-reader for blind people this year that should greatly enhance their reading experience and spare them from lugging around hefty print volumes.

• Cloudera CEO outlines the 'new Cloudera Data Platform'

  The newly merged Cloudera and Hortonworks will operate under the Cloudera brand, and is moving customers to a new, unified Cloudera Data Platform.

• Tick-tock: the year-long Windows 7 countdown by the numbers

  It's T-minus one year and counting before Windows 7 exits mainstream support. Let's look at some important numbers for the year ahead.

• Victorian government on alert over social engineering campaign

  Victorian government employees have been warned about what is believed to be a phone-based social engineering campaign targeting the state’s public sector, possibly ahead of a phishing campaign designed to collect employee credentials.

• Open banking one year on in the UK: where is it at?

  Australia's ​open banking framework still being developed​, but earlier this week the UK’s open banking regime celebrated its first anniversary.

• How to integrate blockchain with legacy systems (and whether you should)

  Blockchain is not middleware meant to tie into existing legacy systems, but there are methods for automating the flow of data from ERP systems to a distributed ledger technology. First, though, you should figure out if you even need it.

• IT manager’s survival guide: 11 ways to thrive in the years ahead

  Technology executives see a range of potential dangers to managers who are out of step with an evolving IT landscape, and some new research suggests IT managers are not quite as layoff-proof as in previous years.