Newcastle's city council will replace its disparate IT systems with OneCouncil, a single enterprise solution from TechnologyOne. [ + ]

Organisations delving into big data often run into two difficulties: not knowing where to start, and not knowing how to justify a big data investment. [ + ]

CIOs need several capabilities to overcome the challenges presented by the surge in virtualisation, cloud computing, mobility and video. [ + ]

The threat posed by mobile ransomware has grown considerably this year, and the first Android variant that encrypts phone data has been discovered in the wild, according to Fortinet Labs. [ + ]

MP Paul Fletcher has argued that keeping Australia competitive in the digital age will require disciplined public policy, and that Labor's version of the NBN project was the opposite of this. [ + ]

Mid West Ports Authority will use IFS Applications as an ERP system as it seeks to drive operational efficiency and cope with significant volume growth at the port of Geraldton. [ + ]

Providing state-of-the-art facilities is one thing, but data centre providers should do more to raise the bar of customer service. [ + ]

A survey of Australian businesses shows that 1 in 3 do not consider themselves to be digital enterprises, and only a third have a dedicated chief digital officer. [ + ]

The newly launched NICTA Swinburne Software Innovation Lab will focus on developing software with the potential to benefit a diverse range of industries. [ + ]

Microsoft will reduce its total headcount by up to 18,000, CEO Satya Nadella announced last week, with both job cuts and new positions contributing to the revised headcount. [ + ]

A few years ago most organisations could safely assume it would be unlikely that they would become the target of a cyberattack … but not anymore. [ + ]

A new federal government inquiry will examine how the Telecommunications Act 1997 can be used by government agencies to disrupt access to illegal online services. [ + ]

Alcatel-Lucent's prototype XG-FAST technology achieved both 10 Gbps downlink speeds and 1 Gbps symmetrical speeds during a recent trial using copper telephone lines. [ + ]

WebRTC seems to promise the nirvana of videoconferencing to any browser, with no additional software to be downloaded and installed. Yet its impact on traditional videoconferencing is being viewed by some with concern. [ + ]

KPMG to invest over £20m to partner with Imperial College London on a new KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics, with the aim of putting the UK at the forefront of data science. [ + ]