Australian sales of video game hardware, software and accessories grew 15% to $2.83 billion last year, as digital sales surpassed physical retail sales, according to the IGEA. [ + ]

With point-of-sale attacks continuing, PoS and payment providers will need to build allegiances and share information more than ever in 2016. [ + ]

Data centre server virtualisation currently stands at almost 80% — by 2020 it will be hard to find a data centre that isn't 100% virtualised. [ + ]

The organisers of CeBIT Australia 2016 will live stream this year's keynote speeches to anybody with an internet connection who wishes to watch them. [ + ]

How executive management adapts to technological innovation will be critical in the deployment of technologies and the structure of management in the future. [ + ]

Linux Mint website hacked and downloadable distros infected, John McAfee has offered to crack the San Bernardino iPhone, and telco complaints at lowest level since July 2006. [ + ]

The NSW Government's GovDC Silverwater has become the first data centre in Australia to secure a 4.5 star energy-efficiency rating from the national environment rating standard NABERS. [ + ]

Communications regulator ACMA has outlined its latest strategy to address the ongoing surge in demand for mobile broadband capacity. [ + ]

The government is conducting a review aimed at ensuring Australia's space legislation is up to date and can help stimulate the industry, and has now opened the review up to public consultation. [ + ]

Microsoft has had to patch its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, designed to make user-mode programs more secure, after FireEye researchers found a simple method to disable it completely. [ + ]

With big data analytics, the trick is to persuade as well as predict, in order to deliver real-time, holistic intelligence that can influence a customer's next action. [ + ]

The rise of the cloud has seen a variety of solutions developed to suit the needs of many different kinds of enterprises. [ + ]

The global user base for mobile payments, including mobile commerce and money transfers, is set to climb to 4.77bn in 2019 from 689.9m in 2014, Ovum has predicted. [ + ]

Australia was the country third most targeted by banking botnets in 2015, with criminals attacking more than 95 financial institutions, Dell research shows. [ + ]

Cybercrime exploit kits became more adept at avoiding detection by security systems in 2015, while perpetrators increasingly took to using encryption for the same purposes, research shows. [ + ]