The conditions couldn’t be riper for the much-vaunted launch of ecommerce giant Amazon in the Australian market, according to new research which shows online shopping in Australia exploding, with sales rocketing upwards.

The ICT sector has led the way for all other business and industry sectors in March, with executive job demand rising by 4% following a big increase of 26% in February.

The hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has released a number of what it says are NSA exploits for Windows systems and details of what it says are NSA intrusions into the SWIFT system which is used by banks. In response, Microsoft has issued a statement.

Marking the deadline for telecoms and Internet service providers to comply with the Commonwealth Government's metadata retention requirements, EFA and other online rights organisations last week declared a ‘National Get a VPN Day’.

Australia’s new data retention laws have been labelled as rubbish, and even anti-competitive, by wholesale telecommunications and IT services group Inabox, among others.

The ICT sector has led the way for all other business and industry sectors in March, with executive job demand rising by 4% following a big increase of 26% in February.

A bit of good news for citizen band (CB) radio users, who will not have to upgrade older-style 40 channel equipment following a review by the regulator of a prohibition that was scheduled to come into effect from the start of July this year.

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