Optus is again shaking its innovation rattle – this time with a programme offering six capital injections of up to $50,000 for ideas that can “change the social landscape” for young Australians… read more...

A national infrastructure review has recommended the National Broadband Network Company be privatised “in the medium term” with a multi-billion dollar price tag tipped… read more...

In the past, when customers approached NAB for a personal loan, it took the bank around 12 days to respond – a new software platform now means they could win approvals in one day… read more...

An exploration of the data files kept by 100 global companies has revealed that two in five data files hasn’t been used in three years, and 12 per cent has lain fallow for seven… read more...

Global Cloud Xchange is within a month of switching on its first A/NZ node, intended to allow local enterprises to deploy a cloud arbitrage strategy… read more...

CeBIT’s Australian lineup has been announced for 2016 with the giant trade show and conference returning to Sydney’s Olympic Park in early May… read more...

When Telstra’s mobile network crashed this week it revealed just how reliant Australian business has become on communications networks… read more...

OzForex has announced the collapse of negotiations with Western Union, pulls pin on due diligence process… read more...

SAP’s two new business units targetting public services sector in Australia and financial services in Australia and New Zealand telegraph its 2016 priorities… read more...

Australia’s peak research body CSIRO has confirmed an overhaul which will have the organisation and its researchers focused more on innovation than invention… read more...

The NSW Government is building on its raft of digital services – this time by updating its smartphone app to allow people to pay fines and review infringement photos… read more...

Cloud accounting software company Xero has announced a slew of updates for its Australian tax module, along with a changing of the guard at the pointy end in both Australia and New Zealand… read more...

Enterprises need to rethink blanket rules regarding access to corporate information systems, and instead take more of a “patchwork quilt” approach according to a former FBI agent… read more...

Data is a form of capital on par with financial capital, even though it can’t yet be shown on a balance sheet, according to Paul Sonderegger, big data strategist for Oracle… read more...

Demand for public cloud continues to soar and spending will reach more than AU$5.5 billion in Australia as enterprises grow comfortable with the notion of a third party running their information systems… read more...

Telstra is putting more of its money where its mouth is to grow its Network Application and Services business and share of the cloud market with a couple of strategic investments this month… read more...

Australians are ready, willing and able to swap ready cash for a digital alternative – and retailers had better prepare their infrastructure for the switch… read more...

Deloitte has released its technology predictions for 2016 – and perhaps most startling is the way that smartphones are being used, but women aren’t… read more...

Trialled with early adopters since 2015, listed Australian software and services business TechnologyOne has launched the fifth incarnation of its cloud platform which has been primed for scale… read more...

Australian corporate board members and senior executives should hold their nerve in spite of the rocky start to 2016 and focus on continued digitization of their businesses… read more...