Modern businesses require the kind of analytical document flexibility that fixed-layout formats such as PDF simply cannot provide. [ + ]

Regulator ACMA has updated the Telecommunications Protection Code to provide greater clarity and flexibility to service providers in terms of compliance and monitoring. [ + ]

Software industry body BSA settled 15 cases of unlicensed software use among Australian companies in 2015, from industries including manufacturing and construction. [ + ]

Australia risks being left behind by digital disruption, as the economy moves beyond products and into data, says Data61's CEO, Adrian Turner. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

Mark Zuckerberg tackles anti-black sentiment at Facebook, Aussie demonstrates Nissan LEAF compromise, and IBM aims to buy security response firm. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

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. [ + ]

With point-of-sale attacks continuing, PoS and payment providers will need to build allegiances and share information more than ever in 2016. [ + ]

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. [ + ]