MP Paul Fletcher has argued that keeping Australia competitive in the digital age will require disciplined public policy, and that Labor's version of the NBN project was the opposite of this. [ + ]

Mid West Ports Authority will use IFS Applications as an ERP system as it seeks to drive operational efficiency and cope with significant volume growth at the port of Geraldton. [ + ]

Providing state-of-the-art facilities is one thing, but data centre providers should do more to raise the bar of customer service. [ + ]

A survey of Australian businesses shows that 1 in 3 do not consider themselves to be digital enterprises, and only a third have a dedicated chief digital officer. [ + ]

The newly launched NICTA Swinburne Software Innovation Lab will focus on developing software with the potential to benefit a diverse range of industries. [ + ]

Microsoft will reduce its total headcount by up to 18,000, CEO Satya Nadella announced last week, with both job cuts and new positions contributing to the revised headcount. [ + ]

A few years ago most organisations could safely assume it would be unlikely that they would become the target of a cyberattack … but not anymore. [ + ]

A new federal government inquiry will examine how the Telecommunications Act 1997 can be used by government agencies to disrupt access to illegal online services. [ + ]

Alcatel-Lucent's prototype XG-FAST technology achieved both 10 Gbps downlink speeds and 1 Gbps symmetrical speeds during a recent trial using copper telephone lines. [ + ]

WebRTC seems to promise the nirvana of videoconferencing to any browser, with no additional software to be downloaded and installed. Yet its impact on traditional videoconferencing is being viewed by some with concern. [ + ]

KPMG to invest over £20m to partner with Imperial College London on a new KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics, with the aim of putting the UK at the forefront of data science. [ + ]

Deakin University scientists have developed a new digital watermarking method which they claim could potentially stamp out music piracy. [ + ]

Apple and IBM, once bitter rivals, have surprised the tech world with an agreement to enter a major enterprise mobility partnership. [ + ]

IBM will spend $3.2bn to research sub-7-nanometre transistors, post-silicon chips, cognitive and quantum computing and other ways to keep Moore's Law going while transforming how computers are designed. [ + ]

Microsoft will discontinue 'mainstream support' for Windows 7 in January next year, and will provide the much leaner 'extended support' until 2020. [ + ]