Stories by Stephanie McDonald

Qantas customers will be able to access in-flight entertainment on iPads on B767 flights.

Malcolm Turnbull has slammed the [[artnid: 431120|ACCC approval|new]] of the $800 million agreement with Optus and NBN Co which will see Optus decommission its HFC network.

When you have more than 750 staff working remotely – none of whom will ever step into the company’s offices – a stable communication system is paramount.

An $800 million deal between NBN Co and Optus has been approved by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

Australian consumers are paying around 50 per cent more than US consumers for music downloads, computer software, hardware and games and console games, according to Choice.

Calibre Global’s CIO has told the CIO Summit that a partnership model trumps traditional client supplier models because it shares the risk - and reward - between the vendor and client.

Enterprise software company TechnologyOne has turned its recruiting focus to graduates and promoting them up the leadership ladder instead of hiring outside staff and integrating their career “baggage” into the company.

Westpac is piloting a new mobile payment app for small businesses which allows them to process credit card payments without the use of an eftpos machine.

The CSIRO is turning to the public to design the body of its mobile telepresence museum robot.

Senator Stephen Conroy has moved to reassure the Queensland regions of Townsville, Rockhampton and Mackay that they will receive the National Broadband Network (NBN) via fibre.

Mexico has signed the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in Japan, a week after the European Union parliament rejected the agreement.

Australia’s first National Broadband Network (NBN) café has opened in Brunswick, Victoria, with customers able to access the café’s NBN wifi.

In New Zealand, Adam Bennett says being appointed general manager, banking delivery services, at the Bank of New Zealand was a “big role for me and quite a big stretch” from what he was previously doing, director of Finance Transformation Practice at Cap Gemini. Joining National Australia Bank (NAB) in 2005 was also another stretch for him after a consulting career from 1994 to 2005, primarily with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

While Credit Union Australia (CUA) might be a late comer to mobile banking apps, it is firmly setting its sights on peer-to-peer mobile banking, with its CIO stating it would be "suicidal" for the financial services company not to give customers what they want.

A Ukrainian university team has won the 2012 Imagine Cup with a product that allows deaf people to verbally communicate using sensory gloves and a smartphone.