Cloud-based MYOB services now account for 67% of the company's new customer registrations across Australia and New Zealand, according to CEO Tim Reed. [ + ]

In our new Tech Insights series, we speak with industry leaders to get their views of what the year ahead holds for the IT world. Today's expert is Alec Gardner, general manager, advanced analytics for Teradata. [ + ]

Vodafone plans to become one of the first operators in Australia to launch voice over LTE (VoLTE) for the operator's 4G customers. [ + ]

Recent research has found that two-thirds of organisations underestimate their true mobile cost of ownership, with support and operations costs being more than twice that of hardware costs. [ + ]

Nearly a third of Android mobile apps access and share private information, but many Australian mobile users are ignorant or unconcerned about the risks, a Symantec survey shows. [ + ]

The second annual ACI Connect event in April will include the inaugural Future Networks Forum, where industry experts will ponder the future of industrial networks in the IoT era. [ + ]

Organisations can achieve significant savings and dramatically boost efficiency and collaborative effort by upgrading to a unified communications system. We spoke to three that have made the switch. [ + ]

Trend Micro said it has discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash, the third such exploit uncovered since Adobe's last Patch Tuesday. [ + ]

IBM rejects reports of job cuts, BMW tackles a flaw that could have allowed hackers to unlock car doors and Australian cyberattacks outed. [ + ]

The frequency and scale of DDoS attacks grew sharply in Q4 as DDoS-for-hire and multivector attacks increased in popularity, an Akamai report shows. [ + ]

Microsoft has revealed plans to start offering its flagship OS as a service, starting with offering Windows 10 for free to users of Windows 7 or newer for the first year after launch. [ + ]

Did flight computers lead to crash?; tax office faces huge IT problem; TAFE teachers criticise IT failure; what to do with your old CRTs; and IT helpdesk funnies. [ + ]

New smart data discovery and analytics tools are taking business intelligence outside of the realm of IT and into the general business, but many self-service BI initiatives have poor governance. [ + ]

More than 30 new cloud, IT and network service providers have arranged to deploy in ME1, Equinix's first Melbourne data centre. [ + ]

Little data may become more valuable to your business than big data. But how do you gather it efficiently and securely, and what should you do with it? [ + ]