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A third of AU businesses taking orders online
Around 30% of Australian businesses took orders online during the FY12-13 financial year, and over a quarter had a social media presence, ABS figures show. [ + ]
Mobile malware becoming sophisticated and scary
Security firms detail newly discovered mobile malware samples with alarming capabilities, such as covertly installing additional apps, recording phone calls and sending money to attackers. [ + ]
Transforming applications for cloud and mobility
Organisations need to understand how to embrace emerging technologies to bring them new customers or defend their existing bases. However, too many organisations are struggling to maximise the potential. [ + ]
1 in 3 ANZ CIOs outsource mainframe app development
When legal changes require modification to an organisation's mainframe applications, a third of ANZ CEOs choose to outsource the app development and testing work, a survey suggests. [ + ]
Australian data centre services revenue to exceed $1.7 billion by 2020
The Australian data centre services market recorded revenues of $698 million in 2013 - a growth of 17.2% over 2012 - while revenue from co-location services increased by almost 17% during 2013. [ + ]
Report on hiring trends for IT professionals
Approval for new projects will drive an increase in hiring of IT professionals across Australia, according to the latest report from recruitment consultancy Robert Walters. [ + ]
The true cost of mobile enterprise apps can be high
With business use of mobile apps certain to increase, CIOs need to start planning to address the high total cost of developing and maintaining them, UXC Connect's Denise Carson argues. [ + ]
Liberal senators decry data breach notification bill
Liberal Party senators have refused to support the latest incarnation of Labor's data breach notification bill, over concerns of ambiguous language and inadequate opportunity to comment during the bill’s construction. [ + ]
After BYOD and BYOA, here comes DYOA
The growing develop your own application (DYOA) trend is driving demand in the platform-as-a-service market, according to a survey of IT leaders in eight countries including Australia. [ + ]
Major cybersec research centre opens in Canberra
UNSW's new Australian Centre for Cyber Security at ADFA will bring together the largest cohort of security experts in Australia, according to the new facility's director. [ + ]
Salesforce's push to get wearables into the enterprise
With cloud-based CRM provider Salesforce.com launching its dev kit for wearable technologies, promises that wearable tech will reach enterprise level may soon be realised. [ + ]
More of SAP landscape shifting to the cloud
Large enterprises plan to move nearly half of their SAP on-premise environment to the cloud within the next two years, creating a $41.5bn market segment, a survey indicates. [ + ]
Australian cloud IaaS market booming
More than half of Australian organisations with more than 20 employees have adopted public cloud IaaS for at least part of their IT infrastructure, research from Telsyte shows. [ + ]
HDD crashes most common cause of data loss
A survey of Australian data recovery customers shows that 65% blamed HDD failures for their most recent data loss incident, compared to 16% for SSD drives. [ + ]
Heartbleed points to bigger SSL problems
The Heartbleed vulnerability was just the tip of the iceberg, says a Palo Alto Networks report which reveals that 32% of applications are capable of using SSL. [ + ]