Ten Australian companies and one New Zealand company have been featured in Gartner's latest annual Cool Vendors research series highlighting significant digital disrupters. [ + ]

Windows has seen a decline in its smartphone sales since last year, now holding below 1% of global market share. [ + ]

Some 65% of CIOs feel hindered by the largest tech skills shortage since the global financial crisis and feel that a lack of talent will leave their organisations unable to keep up with the pace of change. [ + ]

Not Angry Birds, but a hungry bird is one of the top reasons for unusual power outages last year. [ + ]

A new group with the backing of Australia's largest tech companies aims to improve coordination among the stakeholders working to turn Sydney into the Australian equivalent of Silicon Valley. [ + ]

The US Department of Defense will allocate the rewards under its Hack the Pentagon bug bounty competition by the end of May. [ + ]

All hail the return of the 3310? The Nokia brand is coming back to mobile phones. [ + ]

Enterprises tackled digital transformation challenges at the recent APIdays Melbourne, as Australia moves from the 'why' to the 'how' of API management. [ + ]

Consider yourself an inclusive guy or gal? Nominations are now open for the inaugural #TechDiversity Awards, which celebrates leaders of diversity in tech. [ + ]

NEXTDC has selected a site for its second data centre in Melbourne, one day after announcing the location for its second Brisbane facility. [ + ]

The old-school enterprise resource planning approach has run its course — it's time to adopt a hybrid application landscape. [ + ]

ACCC warns public to 'wise up to scams', Qld public sector workers warned about data access, and 7-Zip users warned of vulnerabilities. [ + ]

Bitdefender has analysed a clickfraud bot currently operating on nearly one million computers worldwide, which redirects Google traffic to malicious servers controlled by cybercriminals. [ + ]

NEXTDC will build its planned $75m B2 data centre, its second in Brisbane, at a newly acquired site in Fortitude Valley. [ + ]

With its continuing existence now ensured, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner will escalate its privacy-related activity this year, focusing on areas including big data, start-ups and the IoT. [ + ]