Faced with the ongoing decline of the traditional PC market, vendors will need to consider overhauling their product lines and/or business models to stay afloat or exiting the market completely, according to Gartner. [ + ]

Poor network performance is holding back digital transformation efforts for the majority of Australian businesses and leading to 71 hours in lost productivity per employee per year. [ + ]

Tyro Payments will award up to ten $25,000 grants as part of a plan to crowdsource ideas for SMEs to improve efficiency in their business banking processes. [ + ]

Commonwealth Bank and Barclays have agreed to combine their respective mobile payment apps to enable streamlined cross-border mobile money transfer for their retail customers. [ + ]

HP will pay US$1.05bn to acquire Samsung's printer business as it seeks to disrupt the stagnant US$55bn copier industry. [ + ]

Four of Microsoft's operating systems were responsible for 518 of the 2686 recorded vulnerabilities among the 20 most vulnerable software products in May–July, Flexera Software says. [ + ]

Apple has announced new products including the headphone jack-free iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, the Apple Watch 2 and new wireless headphones to go with its new devices. [ + ]

Direct-to-cloud enables remote users access from anywhere and from any device, while guarding against threats and enforcing user policies. [ + ]

Austrade has signed a new collaboration agreement with China's Alibaba seeking to expand the variety of Australian products, including fresh food produce, sold on Alibaba's popular e-commerce sites. [ + ]

Internet Australia has called on the ACCC to use its telecom sector market study to rethink the direction of the NBN and other efforts to meet Australia's future communications needs. [ + ]

The government has finally established a $128.4m grants program to co-fund the implementation of the data retention scheme, but the industry has complained of delays and underfunding. [ + ]

New research from Intuit indicates that 74% of Australian small business owners are using cloud- and mobile-based apps to manage their operations. [ + ]

Migrating to a co-location data centre can deliver significant benefits, but it can also be a high-risk and challenging project if not planned effectively. [ + ]

Apple ordered to pay Ireland $19bn that it doesn't want, malware strikes ATMs in Asia, and ESET spots malware that's remotely commanded via Twitter. [ + ]

The ninth annual Best Place to Work survey has named Salesforce, Atlassian and Adobe among the top five large companies in Australia for employees and Rackspace Australia as the best smaller company. [ + ]