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ASD Essential Eight cybersecurity controls not essential: Canberra
The Australian government demonstrates its can't-do attitude to computering yet again. Requiring all agencies to follow the Australian Signals Directorate's 'best advice' is just too hard.
Australian IT spending expected to reach nearly AU$94b in 2019: Gartner
The analyst firm is projecting global IT spending to hit $3.79 trillion this year.
Kogan Mobile customer base up 41% in Q3
Meanwhile, Kogan.com's overall active customer base went up by 23% year on year.
Telstra and Optus complaints jump: Comms Alliance
A quarterly complaints report from Comms Alliance and the TIO has found that complaints jumped across Optus and Telstra, and rose slightly for Vodafone during the first three months of the year.
UNSW and Sydney Uni quantum partnership already bearing fruit
The universities have announced that its engineers have demonstrated the theoretical work of physicists.
Shareholders approve KKR's AU$1.6b MYOB acquisition
The acquisition will be complete in less than a month, should there be no legal hurdles.
Microsoft backs six Aussie environment-focused AI projects
AI for Earth aims to support the use of tech in the areas of climate change, agriculture, biodiversity, and water.
Australia to keep playing the UN cyberspace norms game
The United Nations now has not one but two separate forums for discussing international rules of behaviour in the cyber realm, and Australia will be supporting them both.
How Downer is using sensors to predict Sydney Trains maintenance
The Microsoft Azure-based solution has been rolled out to capture and store IoT data, using advanced data analytics and visualisation tools to make sense of it.
RMIT partners with NAB and Palo Alto Networks for new cybersecurity course
The course will cover the fundamentals of cybersecurity and offer students a professional pathway to working in technology.
UniSA claims its stake in Australia's space future with new research centre
The University of South Australia will head up a new Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics.
Aussie fintech Volt Bank starts by asking consumers what they want
Volt is aiming to be live with its first product later this year.
Complaints to TIO over NBN service halved for six months to December 2018
Overall complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman are back to 2016 numbers, sitting at 61,000 made between July 1 and December 31, 2018.
Acer and UTS trial classroom program that monitors student movements
It uses laptops to collect data on students' hand gestures, eye movements through webcams, as well as mouse, keyboard, and digital pen movements to better understand the link between behaviour patterns and learning outcomes.
Boeing signs on as Australian Space Agency partner with a focus on STEM
The pair will focus on STEM education, space-related R&D, as well as other areas that are expected to grow the Australian space sector.
iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Sydney launch: Photos
Hundreds of die-hard Apple fans lined up in the rain to obtain one of the new iPhones, launched on Friday morning -- though significantly less turned up than for the iPhone 6 launch.
UNSW to visualise data sets using DomeLab
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
Honeywell's Command Suite puts design at the focus
Honeywell's plans to improve user experience is reflective in the interface of its newly announced Command and Control Suite, aimed to provide personnel holistic views of a building's video feeds, access control, and fire alarms.
Who's who in Australia's mandatory data-retention debate
There are a lot of players in the mandatory data-retention debate. We look at who is for the legislation, and who is opposing it.
Telstra opens high-tech Customer Insights Centre: Pictures
Telstra has opened its Customer Insights Centre (CIC) in Sydney for enterprise and business clients, with the high-tech 3,600 square metre facility boasting a 300-person auditorium, a workshop, collaboration spaces, partner pop-up installations, a restaurant, and a broadcast studio.
Tropical tech: IT challenges in remote communities
Operating and maintaining the sensitive IT equipment in Australia's tropical far north can be a challenging undertaking, but NEC Australia has worked out a way to keep things running for some of Australia's most remote communities.
One Laptop per Child reaches 20K devices in Aussie schools
Not-for-profit organisation OLPC Australia's new program, One Education, has now distributed 20,000 computing devices to schools throughout Australia, with a celebration held last week at a school where every student and teacher has a device.
NextDC's Sydney datacentre at 27% capacity
At the launch of NextDC's S1 Tier III Sydney datacentre last night, CEO Craig Scroggie confirmed uptake was already at 27 percent.
Inside Adobe's new office in Sydney
The creative software vendor shifted its operations from Chatswood to the Sydney CBD.
ZDNet App Wrap: February 11, 2013
This instalment of the App Wrap covers Mailbox, Horizon Calendar, Carbon for Twitter, Foursquare for Business, Documents On The Go Pro, Basecamp, Queensland Tide Times, and O'Week at Uni of Adelaide.
Digital Realty officially launches Western Sydney datacentre
The datacentre provider showed off the new facility with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell attending the launch ceremony.
ZDNet App Wrap: January 21, 2013
This week, the App Wrap looks at Dolphin Browser, CommBank Kaching, CommBank Property Guide, yourMyki, Armadale Shopping City Shopper Guide, iBulkBill, and Australian Open.
Australian Open 2013: tech running the tournament
ZDNet goes behind to scenes to learn more about the tech that is used to support the Australian Open.
ZDNet App Wrap: January 14, 2013
This week we look at the following newcomers from Apple and Google's app stores: Arrivo Sydney, Facebook Pages Manager, Fitocracy, PlayTube, PresentEasy, Python 3.4 for iOS, Share The Fare, and TrackMySpend.
ZDNet App Wrap: 26 November 2012
This week's new apps include: Find a Lawyer, First Aid, Here Maps, Vic Hunting, Francis Bacon, Optus TV with Fetch, Quit for Two, and Great Koala Count.
Acer and UTS trial classroom program that monitors student movements
It uses laptops to collect data on students' hand gestures, eye movements through webcams, as well as mouse, keyboard, and digital pen movements to better understand the link between behaviour patterns and learning outcomes.
Boeing signs on as Australian Space Agency partner with a focus on STEM
The pair will focus on STEM education, space-related R&D, as well as other areas that are expected to grow the Australian space sector.
South Australia to house Defence's new AU$68m supercomputer centre
Construction of the Defence High Performance Computing Centre will begin later this year.
AirTrunk raises SG$450m for new Singapore data centre
The Australian company plans to boost its APAC presence by building a new 60+ megawatt hyperscale data centre in Singapore.
Defence awards AU$15m in latest round of Innovation Hub contracts
It will also make major reforms to its DISP program to make it easier for industry to do business with Defence.
Policies released for Commonwealth to purchase tech from SMBs
Next phase of Canberra's government IT procurement reform.
Telstra ditching Thanks scheme for Plus rewards store
Details are scant for the new program, and business customers need not apply.
Australia's Archer commences room-temperature quantum chip build
Australia races to build the first quantum computer.
Australia hopes to kick start space industry with new strategy
The overarching plan of the strategy is to triple the size of Australia's space sector and grow an additional 20,000 jobs by 2030.
ASIO eyes Microsoft Azure for phase one of tech transformation
Six packages are up for grabs under the spy agency's systems integration tender, with protected, secret, and top secret information to be hosted solely on Azure.
NBN has purchased almost 30,000 kilometres of copper
It is well on the way to hitting the 40,000km milestone of being able to circle the planet at the equator.
Rules drafted on how to access data under Consumer Data Right
The draft rules stipulate that data-holders must stand up a specialised service to take applications and administer data if approved.
Australia rushes laws on jailing social media execs for violent crime streaming
Government pushes laws through before it calls an election.
Human Services is building another chatbot
Centrelink is the first target, of course.
Coles brings in Ocado to get serious about online grocery shopping
Coles expects the implementation of Ocado's software and equipment to double its online sales.
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