Australia's telecom industry has negotiated with rights holders on a draft code of conduct for responding to online copyright infringement, including sending escalating warnings to suspected pirates. [ + ]

In our new Tech Insights series, we quiz industry leaders to get their views of what the year ahead holds for the IT world. Today we speak with Andy Farquharson, Vice President, LogMeIn Asia Pacific. [ + ]

Apple has asked its Asian suppliers to manufacture up to 6 million Apple Watch units ahead of the April launch, and market researchers expect the company to sell around 20 million of the devices this year. [ + ]

This week: Britain to change road rules for robocars, Obama hotel's embarrassing IT fail, technical glitch halts European trading and cricketers using technology to beat fines. [ + ]

A group of major big data vendors has formed the Open Data Platform, an industry body focused on developing and promoting big data technologies based on open source standards. [ + ]

In our new Tech Insights series, we quiz industry leaders to get their views of what the year ahead holds for the IT world. Today we speak with Shane Reid, General Manager of Forum IT. [ + ]

Microsoft has introduced the option to integrate more cloud storage services to Office for iOS and is working to introduce the same functionality to the Android and Windows 10 versions. [ + ]

The University of Melbourne's Melbourne Business School and SAS have entered a partnership involving setting up a Master of Business Analytics program and researching advanced analytics strategies. [ + ]

Microsoft and Samsung end dispute over Android royalties, Apple's secret electric vehicle project and cybercrims steal up to US$900m from banks. [ + ]

Australia lags behind some other developed markets when it comes to tackling and reducing electronic waste, and should implement new policies and strategies, a report argues. [ + ]

Strong demand for talent and a trend towards increasing the proportion of IT contractors mean that ICT contracting roles are taking more time to fill Australia-wide. [ + ]

In our new Tech Insights series, we speak with industry leaders to get their views of what the year ahead holds for the IT world. Today we speak with Sharryn Millican, QlikTech's vice president and regional director for Australia and New zealand. [ + ]

Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday includes fixes designed to address a previously undiscovered Windows design flaw that dates back 15 years and could potentially allow remote code execution on all supported versions. [ + ]

Twitter CFO's account gets hacked, rare double failure was cause of airspace mess, computer glitch has Scottish bank holding onto your money and hair trigger missiles must go. [ + ]

Government agency IP Australia is joining the cognitive computing era, entering a deal to evaluate using IBM's Watson to help transform interactions with Australian innovators. [ + ]