Two in three Australian businesses have employees using personal mobile or web apps for work purposes - sometimes without the consent of IT - a Telsyte survey shows. [ + ]

More than half (56%) of Australian companies have not experienced any revenue growth over the last year, and businesses are turning to IT in a bid to stimulate growth, a Servcorp survey suggests. [ + ]

Telstra breached privacy laws when information on its customers was accessible from the internet in 2012 and 2013, according to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). [ + ]

M2, iinet, Optus and Telstra have signed up to participate in an NBN Co pilot of fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) technology in Melbourne. [ + ]

Malicious mobile ads have passed explicit content as the top content exposing users to mobile threats, but explicit content remains the most potent threat, according to Blue Coat Systems. [ + ]

The existence of and potential for participation in a data centre community will be a potential opportunity for CIOs and IT managers to add competitive value for their organisations. [ + ]

Deakin University and SAS have set up a joint research laboratory to develop new ways of visualising big data, such as being able to move through the data in a virtual 3D environment. [ + ]

Telstra's first Transparency Report shows the company received more than 40,000 requests from law enforcement for customer information. But despite its name, the report leaves many questions unanswered. [ + ]

A survey of IT decision-makers shows that nearly half think their organisations have more applications than they need and only a third believe that the majority of their applications are mission critical. [ + ]

Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull has commissioned an audit into the processes that led to Labor's development of its NBN policy. The review is being described by some as a 'witch hunt' aimed at embarrassing Labor. [ + ]

GS1 and the Open Mobile Alliance have demonstrated using Google Glass to scan product barcodes and receive product information as part of their push to include barcode scanning as standard in Android and iOS. [ + ]

Melbourne-based Oakton has picked up a four-year deal to design and manage a new Document Verification Service (DVS) for the Attorney-General's Department. [ + ]

Facebook is in talks to purchase drone manufacturer Titan Aerospace, according to recent news reports. [ + ]

The traditional server OEMs are losing their grasp on the market, with at least one likely to partially exit the market by 2017, according to a recent Gartner report. [ + ]

Server virtualisation is now mainstream in Australia and New Zealand, with more than 80% of server operating systems running as virtualised machines, according to Gartner. But there are still some workloads that can cause problems to the unprepared when they are virtualised, and uncooperative software vendors don't make life any easier. [ + ]