The Federal Government must act to plug a "dangerous loophole" in its encryption bill before it is passed by Parliament before the end of Thursday, the chief executive of the Communications Alliance, John Stanton, has warned.

Labor can no longer describe itself as the Opposition. There are few things in life which are predictable. Among them are the reaction of the Australian Labor Party to national security legislation, says Sam Varghese in another incisive commentary.

Indian IT services company, HCL Technologies has opened a new delivery centre in Adelaide following the signing last year of a six-year contract with agribusiness Elders.

The NBN Co will have to improve its game if the streaming media industry is to continue to make headway in Australia, with a survey finding that buffering is one of the biggest bugbears for users.

A British collective known as Google You Owe Us, which had a case against Google for allegedly bypassing default privacy settings on the Safari browser on iPhones to collect information blocked by the High Court, has launched an appeal against the decision.

Customers of Dutch clothing company OppoSuits have been warned to monitor their credit card accounts after the firm reported that malware planted on its website could have stolen the details of customers who made purchases from its Australian, Canadian, EU and UK websites.

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