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• Casino facial recognition tech foils problem gambler in disguise

  ​NEC claims its facial recognition technology has successfully foiled an attempt by a problem gambler using disguises to try and gain entry to an Australian casino.

• Govt terminates NEC’s multimillion-dollar biometric identity project

  ​The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission has officially terminated its Biometric Identification Services project with NEC after being hit by delays.

• Facial recognition algorithms promise early autism detection in children

  Perth children’s health research institute Telethon Kids has partnered with NEC Australia to explore how algorithms for eye tracking and facial recognition could be used to develop autism detection and diagnosis tools.

• New suppliers named in Victoria’s telco contracts overhaul

  The Victorian government has overhauled its long-running telecommunications services procurement scheme, establishing a new set of contracts, worth $126 million annually.

• ​WA government finalises contracts for IT overhaul

  The Western Australian government has finalised contracts with Atos, Datacom and NEC to deliver its $3 billion, five-year GovNext-ICT technology overhaul.

• ​The tech companies that paid zero tax in Australia last year

  Several big multinational technology companies paid no tax in Australia during the 2014-15 financial year, the Australian Tax Office’s annual corporate tax transparency report has revealed.

• ​WA Govt goes with Datacom following $3 billion ICT tender

  Dimension Data, Telstra and IBM edged out of multi-billion dollar deal.

• SAPOL invest $780k in facial recognition tech

  ​South Australia Police will soon be using facial recognition technology to catch criminals “quickly and expeditiously” following the award of a $780,000 contract to NEC.

• NEC to establish Adelaide cyber security centre

  NEC Australia will spend $4.38 million to build a cyber security centre in Adelaide.
  

• NEC scoops biometric contract from CrimTrac

  Federal Government agency, CrimTrac, has awarded NEC Australia a five-year national contract to deliver biometric services including facial recognition and fingerprint matching capability in a bid to boost crime fighting measures.

• NT police arrest hundreds with new facial recognition tech

  The Northern Territory Police Force is utilising facial biometrics technology to identify and detain wanted criminals.
  

• DFAT outsources support to NEC

  The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has awarded NEC a four-year contract to provide support for 12,000 end users at 160 sites globally.
  

• 9 things you didn't know about Google's undersea cable

  Undersea cables carry virtually all transoceanic Internet data these days, replacing satellites as the preferred medium. Google and some telecom companies invested in one of them, called FASTER, that will stretch 9,000 kilometers between the U.S. and Japan and is due to go into operation next year.

• Here's what it takes to lay Google's 9000km undersea cable

  It takes a plow the size of a small house, a robot the size of a truck and a purpose-built ship to install Google's latest oceanic infrastructure project - a super-fast submarine Internet cable linking the US and Japan.

• Google's 60Tbps Pacific cable welcomed with champagne in Japan

  With bottles of bubbly and a purification ceremony, a Google-backed undersea cable was given a warm welcome on a beach in Japan last week, a critical step in building the highest capacity data link in the Pacific ever created.