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• LivePerson CEO slams Facebook: “They need to go under”

  ​The CEO of chatbot and ‘conversational commerce’ company LivePerson says Facebook should be shut down until it can fix what he sees as multiple issues with the social media platform.

• Telstra puts $13M into Central Coast mobile network

  ​Telstra has revealed a $13 million investment to improve mobile network coverage for commuters travelling from Hornsby to Wyong.

• Telstra pledges to improve network redundancy following issues connecting Triple Zero calls

  Telstra has committed to improving the redundancy and diversity of its network, developing new communication protocols to strengthen the emergency call service.

• Facebook's 100-gigabit switch design is out in the open

  Facebook’s 100-gigabit switch design has been accepted by the Open Compute Project, a step that should help to foster an open ecosystem of hardware and software on high-speed networking gear.

• When it comes to spam, IBM's SoftLayer is the host with the most

  IBM may be the fastest-growing vendor in the worldwide security software market, but it's also the owner of the world's largest source of spam.

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