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• NSW government gets new advisory board for data analytics centre

  ​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.

• Labor promises tax breaks for startup investors

  The Federal Opposition has proposed new policies encouraging more investment in startups, and to spread innovation support across Australia and overseas.

• Budget 2015: Tax breaks for small business, more support for startups

  Generous tax cuts for small businesses and removing obstacles to crowd-sourced equity funding for startups were two key measures announced in last night's federal budget.

• Western Australia unlocks potential of open data

  Western Australia is finalising the blueprint for open government, together with a focus on being “open by default” and streamlining access to untapped data and services.

• Nearly half telework under informal policy: study

  Teleworking is increasing even while many businesses in Australia and New Zealand lack written agreements or training for remote working, according to a report released today by Cisco.

• CIO Takes Action to Solve BYOD's Privacy Problem

  The BYOD policy at a California law firm earned the CIO the nickname of Big Brother. However, the sarcasm stopped when he sprang into action and saved the day when an attorney's smartphone was swiped. The case represents the love-hate relationship workers and IT management have with BYOD.

• BYOD policy: Employee right to social media privacy is paramount

  BYOD guidelines are just being defined, but one warning must rise above the din: never, ever, try to gain unauthorized access to an employee's private social networking site.

• Telstra fires back at Vodafone on state of competition

  Competition has driven Telstra’s network build, the top Australian telco said in response to claims from Vodafone Hutchison Australia's CEO, Bill Morrow, that effective competition does not exist.

• Vodafone CEO urges regulators to rein in Telstra

  The NBN is not enough to level telecom competition in Australia, according to Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Bill Morrow. At an American Chamber of Commerce event today in Sydney, he called on government to support policies that scale back Telstra’s “regulatory favour.”

• Five lessons from LinkedIn's opt-out stupidity

  This week's storm over LinkedIn's opt-out foolishness is a valuable reminder that businesses need to maintain a close watch on social networking services (SNS) and be prepared to respond swiftly to any changes.

• Does Social Networking Require User Policy Changes?

  IT security administrators have had a fairly easy case to make against such social networking sites as Myspace in the past. Myspace in particular tends to be a place for the mostly personal, and some profiles are simply front companies for online mobsters and malware pushers.