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• Anti-corruption body urges NSW department to watch for contractor ‘red flags’

  New South Wales’ Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has made 15 recommendations to the state’s Department of Finance, Services and Innovation, including that DFSI strengthen its screening of potential contractors.

• Charges laid over alleged scheme to hack US SEC

  An alleged hacker and a group of traders face civil and criminal charges over a scheme to obtain sensitive financial information from a system maintained by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ahead of its release to the market.

• Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei says vendor does not spy for China

  ​Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei has rejected claims his company is used by the Chinese government to spy.

• 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

• Growing up in ICT as one of the only women in the room

  The technology industry and its culture has undoubtedly evolved throughout the decades. As part of the tech sector for the last 24 years, it’s been fascinating to see this evolution and pace of change.

• 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.