The Federal Court of Australia has ordered ISP and telco TPG to pay a $400,000 fine for failing to give almost 6000 of its customers access to the Triple Zero emergency call service - and failing to connect 193 actual calls to the service - in 2011. [ + ]

The ACCC has apologised for leaking the email addresses of some subscribers to its information alert services, and has warned potentially affected users to beware of potential scammers capitalising on the breach. [ + ]

Cloud and mobility services provider JCurve has tentatively agreed to spend up to $2.9m in cash and stock to acquire the Full Circle Group in order to expand the company's product portfolio. [ + ]

Increases in LTE subscribers and mobile data usage will help telcos in developed APAC reverse declining average revenue per user, and keep overall revenues growing, a research firm predicts. [ + ]

36% of brownfield sites passed by NBN fibre can't yet connect to the service due to incomplete lead-in infrastructure, and NBN Co said it is tweaking its construction model to resolve this issue. [ + ]

New NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow is letting go of three executives as part of a restructuring. One analyst believes that Morrow's future reforms will be aimed at reducing the friction that is slowing the rollout process. [ + ]

Continuing to use Windows XP after the support cut-off is a risky endeavour. However, it is possible to reduce this risk, and potentially avoid paying Microsoft for expensive custom support. [ + ]

McAfee has launched an online tool to help consumers check whether the websites they visit are vulnerable to the Heartbleed exploit, to determine whether it is safe to change their passwords. [ + ]

Electronic contract manufacturer SRXGlobal has opened a prototyping facility in Dandenong, Victoria, to accompany its manufacturing facilities in the Melbourne suburb. [ + ]

Ovum expects the social messaging segment, backed by heavyweights such as Facebook, to pose an increasing threat to traditional mobile operator revenues and force an evolution of communications services. [ + ]

HP will pay more than AU$115 million in fines and its Russian subsidiary will plead guilty to bribing government officials, following an investigation involving US law enforcement. [ + ]

Security researchers have found a massive vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic library, one that apparently makes it trivial for attackers to steal information normally protected by encryption common used to protect web, email and other internet communications. [ + ]

Australian business leaders recognise the benefits of flexible working - including mobile and activity-based working - but feel their business processes are holding them back, a survey suggests. [ + ]

Coca-Cola Amatil has selected IBM's Sydney data centre to serve as the cloud hub for its entire South Pacific operations. [ + ]

Cybercriminals are waiting longer to pull off larger scale data breaches that can expose tens of millions of records, with eight such attacks recorded in 2013, a Symantec threat report states. [ + ]