Support for Windows Server 2003 will cease 100 days from now, yet almost 60% of businesses are still reliant on it. Microsoft Australia's CTO, Greg Stone, talks us through what to do about upgrading.

A New Zealand research organisation required visibility and intelligence to see what was happening on its network, and know ahead of time if something suspicious was occurring that could affect the organisation and its members. [ + ]

'Dyre Wolf' attack netts more than US$1 million, Europe's regulator could soon bring antitrust charges against Google and Telstra Health to acquire business assets of telemedicine provider Anywhere Healthcare.

Research at MIT has led to a system that distributes data around multicore chips' memory banks, improving execution times by 18% on average while increasing energy efficiency. [ + ]

Perth's Edith Cowan University (ECU) has become the first Australian university to move its entire data centre infrastructure to the cloud, under a five-year contract with Atos. [ + ]

NBN Co has commercially launched FTTB technology and added 550,000 premises to its construction plan, while Telstra has submitted its revised NBN migration plan to the ACCC.

Digital disruptive intermediaries such as iTunes and Uber can shake up industries and challenge or overthrow incumbent businesses, but companies are often too slow to respond to the threat, a report states. [ + ]

This week: April fool pranks, G20 leaders data leaked, spam escapes from a fridge, switching away from smartphones, retro arcade games and Tim Cook to give away his wealth. [ + ]

CEOs and CIOs need to recognise that the explosion of data demands the development of an analytical business culture if they're to stay ahead of the competition, argues Rado Kotorov from Information Builders. [ + ]

Total device shipments in the APAC region are expected to grow to 1.2bn units during 2015 as growing smartphone sales compensate for a shrinking tablet market, according to Gartner. [ + ]

Around 280,000 NSW residents used the state's iVote online voting system during the recent state election, establishing a new world record for a government-binding election. [ + ]

The government's controversial metadata retention bill has passed, despite objections from industry representatives, the Greens and a group of Australian citizens. [ + ]

Around 92% of Australian adults accessed the internet during the six months ending in May, but over one million Australians have never been online, ACMA research shows. [ + ]

Facebook sued for allegedly stealing BladeRoom Group's data centre designs, PayPal will pay almost $10m for "apparent violation" of US sanctions and Optus to be reviewed after data security breaches. [ + ]

Organisations worldwide named issues with auditing, compliance and data privacy as their largest cloud security challenges, a survey of Global 2000 companies shows. [ + ]