At least five employees have quit Google in protest at the company's plans to launch a censored search engine app in China, with senior research scientist Jack Poulson being the most prominent among them.

The demand for executives in the Australian ICT sector waxes and wanes on a monthly basis but was second only to the financial sector in demand for August as the country’s jobs market trends towards its highest level in seven years.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the methods used by the British spy agency, Government Communications Headquarters, to collect information through bulk interception of online communications violated privacy and did not provide enough safeguards.

International researchers led by some from the Australian National University have invented a tiny camera lens that could lead to a device which can be used to link quantum computers to an optical fibre network.

Telstra-owned video software and services company Ooyala is collaborating with Netherlands-based ODMedia Group to integrate the group’s video localisation and delivery capabilities with Ooyala’s video production, management, distribution and monetisation services.

Infrastructure manager Palisade Investment Partners has taken a significant ownership interest in the Hawaiki Submarine Cable Limited Partnership, with the signing of a binding agreement to become equity partners on Thursday.

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