Australia's FirstWave has secured a 30-month, $1.14m contract to provide security-as-a-service based on Cisco's cloud security services to help protect Qantas's IT operations. [ + ]

Optus Wholesale has expanded its suite of wholesale NBN connectivity services to cover HFC access, as well as access via aggregated virtual circuits in data centres in key capitals. [ + ]

A new partnership between CSIRO's Data61 and Health Team Australia (HTA) will provide a telehealth service for those living in rural and remote areas. [ + ]

A new Queensland government program will provide co-funding for projects involving the development and adoption of platform technologies to create jobs and growth in key industries. [ + ]

Yahoo plans to change its name to Altaba following the US$41 billion sale of its core internet business to US telecoms operator Verizon, reportedly to reflect its substantial investment in Alibaba. [ + ]

Atlassian has reached a US$425m deal to add web-based project management platform Trello to its growing portfolio of team collaboration software. [ + ]

A new French law will require companies with more than 50 employees to negotiate with employees over a policy guaranteeing the right to 'switch off' from work and ignore emails after hours. [ + ]

The global device market is stagnating and expected to show no growth this year, according to Gartner, with hardware makers responding to market saturation by exploring emerging new device categories. [ + ]

Google's Chrome grew from being just the second most popular web browser behind Internet Explorer to capturing more than half of the total market by usage share, NetApplications data indicates. [ + ]

The use of unsecured public Wi-Fi is posing a security risk for approximately two million Australians. [ + ]

Approximately 2.4 million Australians send money overseas each year, according to research from the Commonwealth Bank. [ + ]

The Appian Cloud has been successfully deployed at the University of South Australia as part of the university's strategic objective to remove all paper from its administrative systems by 2018. [ + ]

Privacy concerns have been raised by Internet Australia (IA) after the federal government called for a radical expansion of its data retention scheme. [ + ]

According to Nimble Storage, its InfoSight predictive flash platform achieves over six-nines (99.999928%) availability, which leads to an impact of less than 25 seconds annually. [ + ]

A new power station is being built in Adelaide, with homes beginning to receive the first battery installations as part of the trial. [ + ]