Australian spending on customer relationship management software increased 19.4% to $2.3bn during 2018, Gartner estimates. [ + ]

The Queensland Government has allocated funding for a project to open access to government-owned fibre assets to telecommunications service providers. [ + ]

ABI Research has predicted that shipments of Wi-Fi enabled devices will grow to reach nearly 4bn annually by 2024. [ + ]

An audit of 10 NSW universities identified a number of IT internal control deficiencies that are leaving the institutions at risk of cyber attack. [ + ]

Agility Robotics' humanoid robot, Digit, is stepping out of the lab and into the world, and some day, it might just end up at your door. [ + ]

Modis has been named Microsoft's 2019 "Australian Partner of the Year" and "Data Analytics Partner of the Year". [ + ]

AGL Energy has been granted exclusive due diligence rights on a potential takeover of Vocus Group after submitting a non-binding $3bn offer. [ + ]

Large amounts of mobile traffic bound for European mobile networks was inadvertently routed through China for more than two hours recently. [ + ]

Users of outdated and obsolete versions of Windows have been urged to patch against the critical BlueKeep vulnerability, with “potentially millions of networks” at risk.   [ + ]

A memorandum of understanding has been signed by Cinia and MegaFon to prepare the build of a submarine telecommunications cable across the Arctic Sea. [ + ]

The Melbourne 5G Living Lab has just been launched by Infosys, designed to help service providers monetise 5G network deployment. [ + ]

Google has attributed an outage impacting access to Google services to a configuration change that was inadvertently applied more broadly than planned. [ + ]

Tax enforcement officials from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, the UK and the US have commenced over 50 joint investigations during the first year of the 'J5 alliance'. [ + ]

Cloud security company Qualys has discovered a new vulnerability in the Exim mail transfer agent that allows root-level local and remote command execution. [ + ]

Half of survey respondents believe most enterprises underreport cybercrime, even when it's legally required, according to a new study. [ + ]