Bitcoin is neither money nor foreign currency according to the Australian Taxation Office which has issued guidance that may force start-ups and businesses to rethink their Australian plans… read more...

ThemeForest has cracked the top 100 website list compiled by Alexa – at time of writing it’s at number 79 on the list – just after dropbox.com but ahead of Google.com.au… read more...

Driverless cars, wearable computers, location-based intelligence; they all rely on what has become known as the ‘internet of things’. And it certainly has people talking as Anthony Doesburg discovers… read more...

Technology investor, industry champion and some-time cynic Ben Kepes contemplates crazy tech IPOs and asks what companies down under should really do to succeed on the stock market… read more...

City-wide wi-fi networks could be harnessed by enterprising organisations that want to deploy internet connected sensors or devices – but is business ready to seize the nettle?… read more...

Analysis which will identify in near real-time the underlying technology skills being sought by enterprises across A/NZ could also be used to shape the nations’ immigration and education policies… read more...

A wrap-up of news stories that caught our eye over the the past quarter of ICT news including appointments, departures, deals done, implementations completed, mergers, acquisitions and partnerships… read more...

The ranks of long established Australian listed technology companies continues to thin with a bid from South Africa based Dimension Data for IT services business Oakton… read more...

Following months of speculation and leaks, MYOB has today announced that it has acquired HR and Payroll solutions company PayGlobal… read more...

Demand for the technology smarts to stream and monetise video content is increasing as the cost of production and delivery falls, and consumer appetite balloons… read more...

Flash storage – currently 15 times more expensive than spinning disk – won’t reach pricing parity for at least a decade, forcing enterprises to continue to run hybrid storage platforms for the foreseeable future… read more...

While ubiquitous internet connectivity is benefitting businesses, it’s also providing a rich seam for cybercriminals who continue to seek out enterprises’ weakest links… read more...

Australia and New Zealand’s share of the digital universe is shrinking – from 2.6 percent in 2010 to 2.2 percent today – by 2020 it will be even lower even though enterprise data stores will balloon… read more...

Apple may have single handedly disrupted the music industry with iTunes, but it may have missed the boat in terms of its ability to disrupt payments… read more...

An IT security blindspot has left the world’s critical infrastructure at risk from targeted attacks by nation-states and criminal organisations, and rendered other industry sectors vulnerable as a result… read more...

Digital technologies can be anything but benign for business according to the head of the Business Council of Australia – and Australia needs to be ready to make changes in order to prosper… read more...

More detail has emerged regarding the Federal Government’s planned crackdown on internet piracy – which splits responsibility between copyright holders, ISPs and consumers… read more...

Just days before the release of a new national innovation review, Australian businesses have this week already been handed a series of poor report cards… read more...

New Zealand-based Wynyard Group has opened an Asia Pacific Operation Centre in Sydney, more than doubling its Australian headcount and boosting its data analytics capabilities… read more...

A wrap-up of the past quarter’s ICT news… read more...