Articles
UQ researchers get $7m grant for big data medicine research
Researchers from the University of Queensland have secured $7m in grant funding for a five-year project to apply big data to the use of personalised medicine. [ + ]
Victoria to help fund Deakin Uni's ManuFutures
Deakin University has secured $3m in state funding towards a $13m project to build a cooperative facility that will work with industry to develop innovations in advanced manufacturing. [ + ]
Equinix to open fourth Sydney data centre
Equinix has announced plans to open its fourth Sydney data centre as part of a global expansion of its International Business Exchange data centre footprint. [ + ]
Race relations at Facebook; Nissan car hacked by remote control; IBM to buy Resilient
Mark Zuckerberg tackles anti-black sentiment at Facebook, Aussie demonstrates Nissan LEAF compromise, and IBM aims to buy security response firm. [ + ]
Only 1 in 7 security chiefs report to the CEO
While the wide majority of company boards are concerned about cybersecurity, just 14% of security chiefs report directly to the CEO and 7% to the company board, research shows. [ + ]
Global Switch, Akamai opening Sydney data centres
Global Switch has commenced construction of the final stages of its Sydney East data centre, while Akamai has opened a data centre in Sydney to help Australian companies mitigate DDoS threats. [ + ]
Aussie business leaders fear 'digital Darwinism'
Nine in 10 Australian business leaders fear that the digital revolution will have a major disruptive impact on established businesses, which will need to adapt quickly to stay afloat. [ + ]
Australian video game market hit $2.83bn in 2015
Australian sales of video game hardware, software and accessories grew 15% to $2.83 billion last year, as digital sales surpassed physical retail sales, according to the IGEA. [ + ]
Point-of-sale vulnerabilities are not going away
With point-of-sale attacks continuing, PoS and payment providers will need to build allegiances and share information more than ever in 2016. [ + ]
IT trends require an upskilled workforce
Australia is facing a 100,000-person skills shortage in the IT industry over the next five years, but there are reasons to be optimistic about filling that shortfall. [ + ]
CeBIT Australia 2016 to live stream keynotes
The organisers of CeBIT Australia 2016 will live stream this year's keynote speeches to anybody with an internet connection who wishes to watch them. [ + ]
The virtualisation journey to 2020
Data centre server virtualisation currently stands at almost 80% — by 2020 it will be hard to find a data centre that isn't 100% virtualised. [ + ]
Management in the 2040s
How executive management adapts to technological innovation will be critical in the deployment of technologies and the structure of management in the future. [ + ]
ACMA outlines mobile broadband spectrum plan
Communications regulator ACMA has outlined its latest strategy to address the ongoing surge in demand for mobile broadband capacity. [ + ]
Researchers find critical flaw in Microsoft's EMET toolkit
Microsoft has had to patch its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, designed to make user-mode programs more secure, after FireEye researchers found a simple method to disable it completely. [ + ]