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NICTA, Swinburne Uni open software R&D lab
The newly launched NICTA Swinburne Software Innovation Lab will focus on developing software with the potential to benefit a diverse range of industries. [ + ]
Microsoft to chop 18,000 jobs
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. [ + ]
Security status? Assume you will be attacked
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. [ + ]
Disrupting access to illegal online services
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 squeezes 10 Gbps out of copper lines
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: the key to mass adoption of video collaboration
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 and Imperial College London form £20 million partnership
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. [ + ]
Deakin watermark tech could tackle music piracy
Deakin University scientists have developed a new digital watermarking method which they claim could potentially stamp out music piracy. [ + ]
Apple, IBM forge enterprise alliance
Apple and IBM, once bitter rivals, have surprised the tech world with an agreement to enter a major enterprise mobility partnership. [ + ]
IBM invests $3.2bn to prepare for post-silicon era
IBM will spend $3.2bn to research sub-7-nanometre transistors, post-silicon chips, cognitive and quantum computing and other ways to keep Moore's Law going while transforming how computers are designed. [ + ]
Windows 7 mainstream support to cease in January 2015
Microsoft will discontinue 'mainstream support' for Windows 7 in January next year, and will provide the much leaner 'extended support' until 2020. [ + ]
1 in 5 enterprises have experienced an APT attack
Research shows one in five enterprises have experienced an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack, but only one in three could determine the source. [ + ]
Government said to shelve data retention issue
Mandatory retention of telecom records will reportedly not be among the national security reforms the Attorney-General's office plans to propose this week. [ + ]
PC sales finally show signs of stabilising
After two straight years of quarterly declines, global PC sales increased a marginal 0.1% during the second quarter, Gartner estimates. [ + ]
Academia and industry partner to boost network security
A US Department of Homeland Security-funded research institute is working with the Secure Decisions company to use visualisation tools to produce better security data analysis. [ + ]
