With the arrival of its new Pixel phone this week — along with a host of other devices — Google appears to have thrown down the gauntlet to Apple in what some say is a fight for the top spot in the mobile space.

Enterprise big data aggregator Splunk has taken exception to claims about its product, made by Oracle chief executive and chief technology officer Larry Ellison during a keynote at Oracle World this week.

Kaspersky Lab chief Eugene Kaspersky has labelled the latest published claim, about his company's software being a means of exfiltrating NSA material from the computer of an agency employee, as "the script of a C[grade] movie".

An ex-NSA spook, who now runs his own information security company, has taken aim at his fellow professionals over their reactions to a published claim that Kaspersky Lab software was used to exfiltrate material from the home computer of an NSA employee.

The employment prospects for IT contractors are on the improve with a new recruitment survey revealing that the overall majority of Australian CIOs are planning to increase their contract IT headcount by an average of 21% over the next 12 months.

E-waste recycling service TechCollect is calling for Australians to consider the environmental impact of not recycling electronic waste in the wake of new research which it says reveals almost half of we Aussies are holding onto unused or broken electronic devices in case we need them again one day.

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