LinkedIn's new Intro app, designed to insert profile data from the social network into users' emails on iOS devices, has been called "a dream for attackers" by security experts. [ + ]

The businesses that succeed in the future will be those that gather information for analysis today, argues Rackspace's Alan Perkins. [ + ]

Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) has fined Samsung $355,000 (NT$10 million) after finding the company hired people to post fake online reviews of Samsung phones and phones from a Samsung rival. [ + ]

M2 Telecommunications may lay off up to 100 staff in a "partial restructure" of its business, following the company's acquisitions of Dodo and Eftel earlier this year. [ + ]

Ardent Leisure, the owner of Australia's largest theme park - Dreamworld, has contracted Brocade to upgrade and replace the park's wireless networking infrastructure. [ + ]

MyNetFone has arranged to provide continuity of service for customers of PennyTel and iVoisys, two telecom resellers forced into liquidation last week. [ + ]

In the second instalment of this DevOps series, we look at five best practices for embracing DevOps in the IT organisation. [ + ]

The first article in this two-part series introduces the concept of DevOps, which is purported to help IT organisations deliver higher quality applications at a faster pace without having to spend more money. [ + ]

The finding that AAPT breached the Privacy Act by failing to protect customer data from hackers serves as a reminder for other organisations to prepare for privacy reforms taking effect next year. [ + ]

NBN Co has hired ex-Telstra director JB Rousselot to the new position of head of strategy and transformation, while making redundant Mike Kaiser, the company’s head of quality and an ex-Labor politician, in the process. [ + ]

NEC Australia and the NT government will next year launch an IT apprenticeship initiative which will aim to produce 50 work-ready apprentices over five years. [ + ]

With the federal election now past, the opportunity for the incoming Coalition government to deliver on its plans for growing the economy and make real traction requires decisive action within the first six months of government, argues IIA CEO Peter Lee. [ + ]

Australia's telecom ombudsman has welcomed the 18% decline in customer complaints during FY13, hailing it as a sign the industry's revised consumer protection code is working. [ + ]

Labor MP Jason Clare has been appointed Shadow Minister for Communications, with Labor's recent communications ministers Stephen Conroy and Anthony Albanese being passed over for the role. [ + ]

Microsoft has pulled Windows RT 8.1 from the Windows Store mere days after its release, following reports that the OS update rendered some customers' devices unusable, or 'bricked'. Update: The company has now released a Recovery Image for Surface RT users. [ + ]