A quarter of Australian workers expect to be made redundant due to advances in technology, and a majority view temporary work as a good stepping stone to a full-time job, a survey shows. [ + ]

A design for a chip that uses wireless transmission to send data between cores could improve energy efficiency at data farms by up to 20%, while also improving processing speed. [ + ]

Big data will drive data centre growth in Australia, with more than 75% of Australian organisations expecting to increase spending on data centre facilities within the year. [ + ]

The ancient human instinct not to throw away anything useful is leading to VM sprawl - the rise of zombie virtual machines that refuse to die. [ + ]

The communications ministry and NICTA have launched the National Map Open Data initiative, a single map that contains a variety of government geospatial data. [ + ]

Nudgee College in Brisbane recently made a massive change to its academic IT system, replacing ageing infrastructure such as servers and a fleet of college-owned notebooks. [ + ]

NBN Co has officially pushed the launch date for its fibre-to-the-basement (FTTB) product from October this year to early 2015, but the company is "uncommitted" to the new date. [ + ]

Cultural and commercial similarities and the promise of discounts of up to 30% make New Zealand an ideal nearshore outsourcing option for Australian businesses, Ovum argues. [ + ]

Product refresh cycles have slowed to a crawl worldwide due to the lingering effects of the financial crisis, with more than half of the devices on enterprise networks past end-of-sale, a report shows. [ + ]

Google's Android L update will introduce more than 5000 new APIs, support for 64-bit processing, a redesigned UI and other significant changes. [ + ]

Technology powerhouse Hewlett-Packard has revealed its plans for the groundbreaking Helion portfolio with the announcement of US$1bn investment in Cloud Computing. [ + ]

Seven-in-ten Australian IT decision-makers say DDoS attacks have brought down their systems for almost a full working day. [ + ]

OpenStack vendors are increasingly claiming that the open source cloud platform has reached maturity - but is it truly ready for the enterprise market? [ + ]

Google will host the 2014 Google Analytics User Conference in Sydney and Melbourne in September to discuss the rollout of its new Universal Analytics upgrade. [ + ]

NBN Co and Telstra have agreed to the terms of a 1000-node pilot rollout of fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology, as part of the NBN's new multitechnology rollout model. [ + ]