Telcos flailing against tide to turn into dumb pipes
Streaming, 5G, and thoughts and prayers are being deployed by telcos to be anything other than bit handlers.
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Canberra competence shines in day of PM domain lapses and tortured analogies
If you can't set up a process to renew a domain, can you be trusted to run an economy?
The race to ruin the internet is upon us
Australia versus China versus Europe: It's a potent combination of ineptness and maliciousness, and the internet is about to change.
Report from an almost cashless society
Life carries on and has got a little quicker without people fumbling with loose change.
Very little is stopping My Health Record being hooked up to robo-debt
Intent and potentially a lack of will are all that are preventing a meeting of robo-debt and health data, because the legislation is not.
Firefox and the 4-year battle to get Google to treat it as a first-class citizen
Web monoculture is well and truly alive when Google cannot be bothered to make a full-featured cross-browser mobile search page.
This is fine: Australian government senators back current digital transformation path
Canberra has a 'coherent strategy' for digital transformation, government senators say, as opposition senators claim there is a lack of will.
Won't get fooled again: Gig economy second wave begins to break
Whereas Uber appeared for years to conquer almost all before it, the following wave of gig economy proponents are finding the going much tougher as governments react quicker.
Mid-market battle: Oppo R11s and Sony Xperia XA2
Can a true mid-market phone take it to a more expensive Chinese competitor?
A regulation straitjacket is no less than Facebook and everyone else deserves
Facebook should be made an example of for failing to protect its users' information, but it won't happen.
Sayonara to the best phone fingerprint sensor in the business
For phones that still have fingerprint sensors, everyone is headed to the back of the phone, and everyone is doing it wrong.
Australian Home Affairs thinks its IT is safe because it has a cybermoat
For a department that is focused on protecting borders, it seems virtual border protection is missing in action.
Australian government cannot handle its own data securely, why give it yours?
Australia has performed an amazing act of self-leakage, selling a pair of locked filing cabinets of its own secret Cabinet documents.
Spectre puts the brakes on CPU need for speed
Instead of focusing on single-digit percentage increases in performance, a bigger question needs to be asked: Is it safe?
NSW agencies struggle with security basics
Lack of privileged account monitoring, incomplete inventories of IT assets, and lack of a consistent cyber definitions leave NSW government agencies in the lurch.
