Industry News
$8.5 million on offer via the AustCyber Projects Fund
Organisations have until 12 July to submit an expression of interest for receiving grant funding through the latest round of the AustCyber Projects Fund. [ + ]
British Airways facing $330m GDPR fine
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has proposed to issue British Airways a nearly $330m fine, in what would be the largest GDPR penalty imposed to date. [ + ]
Coles taps Microsoft to accelerate digital transformation
Coles has signed a wide-ranging strategic partnership with Microsoft that will see the retail giant make Azure its cloud platform of choice. [ + ]
SaaS continues to dominate public cloud services market
SaaS earned 65.8% of the public cloud services market's $4.01 billion revenue in 2018, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). [ + ]
RecordPoint sets up Melbourne AI and engineering hub
A global, cloud-based records management company will set up its APAC headquarters in Victoria, providing more jobs in the AI and technology sector. [ + ]
Developers to design software for specialists
The ADHA has commissioned nine Australian software organisations to develop systems that integrate My Health Record with specialists' existing platforms. [ + ]
ACCC urges Optus customers to check for refunds
Optus customers may be entitled to a refund after the company's DCB service charged people for third-party content without their knowledge or consent. [ + ]
Digitising services could save citizens a day per year
Australians are spending up to 14 hours a year standing in line, mailing forms or waiting on hold to access government services, a new study has shown. [ + ]
More than half of banking customers using fintech services
Fintech has emerged as a major disruptive force for the global banking and financial services sector, according to deVere Group. [ + ]
New partnership takes NBN to regional Australia
Regional Australian communities could soon access high-speed, fibre-based NBN Enterprise Ethernet under a deal between Australian telecommunications carriers, Vertel and Virtutel. [ + ]
Microsoft enhances Office for virtual environments
A new Virtual Desktop service and several enhancements to Microsoft's Office app aim to improve the user experience in virtual desktop environments. [ + ]
ACCC takes Optus to court over misleading conduct
The ACCC is again taking action against Optus, this time over allegedly misleading customers by claiming that they will need to migrate to Optus nbn services. [ + ]
SAS chief points the way to successful AI implementation
Check out some of the key takeaways from SAS COO and CTO Dr Oliver Schabenberger's keynote at SAS's 2019 Road2AI event. [ + ]
Global SKS network facing "devastating attack"
Attackers have exploited a flaw in the global SKS network used by the OpenPGP protocol that threatens to break GnuPG implementations of the protocol. [ + ]
Linux usage on Azure now surpasses Windows
A Microsoft developer has revealed that usage of Linux on the company's Azure Cloud now exceeds Windows. [ + ]
