Despite being exposed as the king of snoopers, Google is now trying to obtain certification from the Australian Signals Directorate to handle Australian Government data that has the highest security classification.

Optus has increased its full-year profits to $817 million and boosted customer ranks over the last 12 months with the addition of 384,000 new mobile subscribers and 225,000 new NBN broadband customers, according to its full year financial report.

If you want to know what the most in-demand freelance skills according to Australian businesses are in 2018 and a lot of data around this, then you've come to the right article, says Alex Zaharov-Reutt.

More than 90% of Australian IT decision-makers, who took part in a survey that looked at their readiness to meet the standards of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, that takes effect on 25 May, have admitted that their companies are not yet ready to meet the standards demanded by the new law.

Global provider of cloud-based software Mavenlink has opened its first Asia Pacific office in Melbourne with expectations of double growth in the region over the next 12 months.

The telecommunications industry lobby group, Communications Alliance, has put forward what it says are improvements that would make new draft NBN migration rules more oriented to consumers and easier to put in place.

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