Stories by Bonnie Gardiner

​Bob Flores, former CTO with the US Chief Intelligence Agency, and now managing partner for Cognitio Corp, has shared some key insights around data security in Australian businesses.

Speaking at the 2016 Connect Expo event in Melbourne, Intel’s managing director for A/NZ, Kate Burleigh, described how McDonald's supports co-creation with technology as part of its move toward ‘digital convergence’.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak believes successful innovation will be dependent on human-centric design and doing things differently, rather than better.

​Apple co-founder and PC revolutionary, Steve “the Woz” Wozniak thinks there may be no need to own a car in future, thanks to developments in self-driving vehicles and Uber.

Norman Disney & Young’s (NDY) IT director, Frank Italia, has witnessed some incredible digital transformation in the property sector, leading the firm through generations of new design technologies, right into the groundbreaking building information modelling (BIM) techniques.

​An advisory board for the NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC) has been established to provide strategic advice and guide the future direction of the centre’s priorities.

Global IT spending is forecast to decline 0.5 per cent in 2016 with total costs expected to reach $3.49 trillion compared to 2015’s estimate of $3.51 trillion, according to Gartner.

The University of Adelaide has become the first university in Australia to make the switch from Blackboard to Canvas in a new move to upgrade the school’s digital learning capability.

Westpac CIO, David Curran, ​predicts that more partnerships between big banks and smaller fintech startups will help to drive a new innovative working model.

Half of Australian businesses plan to increase salaries for their existing IT employees by an average of 6.7 per cent this year, with select specialist roles to benefit most due to growing demand. Find out which five IT roles win 'most improved pay cheque' in 2016.

NBN has announced a new discount model for its controversial connectivity virtual circuit (CVC) charge, heeding calls from ISPs that original pricing was unsustainable.

A new report has found fewer than one quarter of Australian businesses (22 per cent) are ‘digitally engaged’ based on set criteria to determine how firms use technology to stay competitive.

Smartphones are enabling a new wave of commercial augmented reality (AR) that better allows consumers to inspect a listed property without having to leave their homes.

​The University of Melbourne has once again claimed the title of Australia’s best university for computer science and information systems, ranking 13th globally for the subject in the latest QS World University Rankings.

Shadow Communications Minister, Jason Clare, has slammed the Liberal Party’s takeover of the National Broadband Network following new research showing a substantial drop in world rankings for average peak connection speed.​