A new network operations centre (NOC) will be opened by Macquarie Telecom in Sydney. [ + ]

Globally renowned keynote speakers have been confirmed for the 2018 CeBIT conference in Australia. [ + ]

Australian customers will soon own their own phone, banking, internet and energy data. [ + ]

Those looking to launch a start-up business in Sydney should act now, according to a visiting tech entrepreneur. [ + ]

Australia is a leader among OECD countries in terms of both government spending on R&D and incentives to encourage R&D among private companies, a new report has found. [ + ]

Yohan Ramasundara has been elected as ACS president, effective from 1 January 2018, for a two-year term. [ + ]

A new small business taskforce headed by entrepreneur Mark Bouris will seek to identify and address the impediments for Australian small businesses to adopting digital technologies. [ + ]

Macquarie Telecom has lodged an off-market offer to acquire all the shares in cloud services business Bulletproof to bolster the company's own cloud services business. [ + ]

Most small businesses rate cybercrime as their third biggest risk, according to a national survey. [ + ]

CeBIT Australia will receive $50,000 in funding from the City of Sydney each year for the next three years. [ + ]

The Turnbull government is seeking feedback for a review into the management framework for the .au top-level domain and the roles and responsibilities of its administrator auDA. [ + ]

The vast majority of people use the same password across multiple accounts, a new survey has found. [ + ]

The dates for the 2018 CySCA competition have now been announced. [ + ]

More than half of Australian premises are now ready to connect to the nbn, and nbn co aims to have three quarters of premises ready for service by the end of this financial year. [ + ]

Those in the IT industry are urged to provide information about the barriers they face when dealing with the federal government. [ + ]