Telstra has invested in US-based software support and technical services company Boomtown with plans to utilise the company’s technology and services for its own customers in Australia.

New Zealand’s 111 emergency telephone service is up and running normally again after initial disruption in the first half hour after the earthquake that hit the south island of the country in the early hours of Monday.

A fridge that can order food, a smart home that can monitor and help look after aged, right up to the factory of the future where IoT (Internet of Things) devices run the place!

You would have heard of the term “software-defined”. It is now being applied to “everything” — compute, environment, storage, networking, data centres, W-LANs — and in all cases, it is about the decoupling of the control software from the hardware.

US-based global software company Pegasystems has expanded its Australian business with the opening of a fourth Australian office in Brisbane.

Phishing - the practice of tricking an email recipient into clicking on an embedded attachment or URL to infect their computer or steal information - remains a leading threat to organisations and consumers. We present the “best” phishing lures of 2016.

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