With big data analytics, the trick is to persuade as well as predict, in order to deliver real-time, holistic intelligence that can influence a customer's next action. [ + ]

The rise of the cloud has seen a variety of solutions developed to suit the needs of many different kinds of enterprises. [ + ]

The global user base for mobile payments, including mobile commerce and money transfers, is set to climb to 4.77bn in 2019 from 689.9m in 2014, Ovum has predicted. [ + ]

Australia was the country third most targeted by banking botnets in 2015, with criminals attacking more than 95 financial institutions, Dell research shows. [ + ]

Cybercrime exploit kits became more adept at avoiding detection by security systems in 2015, while perpetrators increasingly took to using encryption for the same purposes, research shows. [ + ]

Optus and Telstra are both taking steps to prepare their networks for the next evolutions of wireless technology, with Optus trialling 4.5G technology and Telstra revealing plans to trial 5G at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. [ + ]

A study of traffic across the internet conducted by researchers from Australia, Germany and the US has provided evidence for the first time of the vulnerability of email traffic. [ + ]

Much of the trouble that Australian organisations are having with business intelligence comes down simply to a lack of skills in the workforce, analysts say. [ + ]

The Australian Government has opened a Landing Pad in San Francisco, one of five planned facilities designed to help Australian technology start-ups crack the global market. [ + ]

Recent surveys show that Australian security professionals take email threats more seriously than their peers in other markets, but C-suite executives need to be more involved in security planning. [ + ]

After Village Roadshow filed legal action seeking to have an alleged piracy site blocked under new site blocking rules, IA has argued that this and other government approaches to stopping piracy are ineffective. [ + ]

Stolen Netflix credentials are selling for just 35 cents, 1.125 Tbps optical data rate achieved, and ACCC issues warning over romance scams. [ + ]

Telstra achieved a 0.8% increase in profit and 9.1% growth in revenue for the first half of FY2016, despite stricter competition in the fixed and mobile markets. [ + ]

The AIIA is inviting nominations from across all sectors of Australian innovation for the 2016 iAwards. [ + ]

There have been nearly 9000 .sydney domain names registered since its launch one year ago, and registrar Neustar is processing around 900,000 DNS queries for .sydney domains per day. [ + ]