The Allphones chain of 84 telecommunications retail stores around Australia has been placed in administration due to insufficient funding to keep stores trading during a sales process, leading to hundreds of job losses.

Motor racing legend Mark Skaife has stormed around the Calder Park Thunderdome in Victoria in a car, with all its windows blacked out, relying on just the Vodafone 4G network to guide him with vision from three Samsung Galaxy tablets mounted on the inside of his windscreen.

Laws that have been proposed by the Australian Government to guard communications networks and businesses from cyber attack and sabotage may have the opposite effect from that intended, a coalition of industry groups has warned.

EXCLUSIVE: Internet Australia chief executive Laurie Patton is moving on after more than two years at the helm of the advocacy and lobby group representing Internet users. Patton is known for his opposition to the current ‘watered down NBN’, data retention laws, and copyright enforcement policies.

US telco Verizon says it has strengthened its armoury in the fight against cyber adversaries with its investment in next-generation security capabilities at its Asia-Pacific Advanced Security Operations Centre in Canberra.

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