While NBN Co crows about reaching 4 million homes, almost a quarter of Australians – 3 million people - are dissatisfied with their home broadband speed, according to a newly published survey.

The head of a technology company in NSW has questioned why contracts for IT deals with local councils have been awarded to a Queensland company without the proper tender process being gone through as per existing law.

An amendment to the Privacy Act, in order to criminalise the re-identification of anonymised released government datasets, may fail to clear the Senate if the report of the committee appointed to look into it is any indication.

Twitter has taken steps to further beef up safety for users of its services in an effort to make Twitter a “safer place” and address issues including abuse and harassment of users by others.

Optus has sealed a 5-year deal with aged care and community service provider Uniting to deliver fixed voice, mobile, Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) and data network services to Uniting’s customers.

An informatics expert says that humanity has nothing to fear from smart machines but the real threat comes from incompetent machines that can screw up things.

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