Facebook has revealed that it inadvertently leaked the contact information of about six million of its users since last year. [ + ]

The ACCC has fined ISP iiNet $102,000 for failing to “prominently” display the total minimum cost of its Naked DSL service in an advertisement on a Sydney bus. [ + ]

The Australian Government has dropped its plans to require ISPs to retain customer metadata for up to two years - at least for now. [ + ]

After playing a key role in the successful launch of multichannel IT media brand Technology Decisions, Anthony Caruana will hand the editor role to colleague and former Voice+Data editor Andrew Collins, starting next month. [ + ]

Dubbed the ‘Linux of the cloud’, OpenStack is an important element of cloud interoperability. [ + ]

We live in a world where digital information is exploding. Some 90% of the world’s data was generated in the past two years. The obvious question is: how can we store it all? [ + ]

As business cycles get crunched and we’re more connected with our stakeholders, businesses need to adapt to a world where decisions can have far-reaching and unexpected effects. [ + ]

IBM’s global job cutting has hit Australia, with several sources indicating local layoffs have already begun. Australian layoffs are rumoured to total 1000. [ + ]

The recent exposure of the US National Security Agency’s (NSA) previously secret electronic surveillance program, PRISM, has triggered a glut of news stories around the globe over the last couple of weeks. Here’s a quick guide to the last week’s events. [ + ]

The bring your own device (BYOD) trend has been making its way into Australian enterprises, with personal smartphones and tablets being used more frequently by employees for professional purposes. The business benefits of BYOD are recognisable - rather than issuing company devices to workers frequently on the go, often through a formal and central procurement process, companies can permit employees to simply bring their own. [ + ]

With ethernet now 40 years old, it would be easy to say that most of the innovation cycle is done and that all we have ahead of us is incremental evolution. But is that true? What will your new network look like? [ + ]

Over the last couple of years, the IT landscape has made significant changes and there are more to come. With mobility, BYOD and cloud services changing the security profile of businesses and greater focus on regulatory compliance by regulators, the nature of managing compliance in IT departments is changing. [ + ]

The Queensland Government will cut at least 1700 public sector IT jobs over the next two years, as part of a cost-cutting strategy that will see the government outsource some of its IT and communications needs to the private sector. [ + ]

Australian telco IF Telecom leaks customer details via a publicly accessible server, and Google is reportedly set to buy social mapping developer Waze for more than US$1 billion. [ + ]

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