Australia's National Pharmacies and New Zealand's Suitebox have both secured Oracle Cloud Platform Innovation Awards for their novel use of Oracle PaaS and IaaS offerings. [ + ]

Australian universities and other higher education institutions are lagging compared to their global peers in terms of their use of social media as a student engagement tool. [ + ]

Affordable and universal access to ICTs and broadband is necessary in order to reach sustainable development goals and achieve gender equality, according to the Broadband Commission. [ + ]

Nearly three in four warehouse operators in APAC markets including Australia plan to invest in new technologies to transform their operations over the next five years. [ + ]

Commonwealth Bank research shows that the majority of Australian small businesses prefer to postpone the adoption of new technology into everyday operations because the benefits are not immediately visible. [ + ]

Schneider Electric has launched an Industrial Cybersecurity Practice in Australia which, it said, aims to improve protection for utility, resources and manufacturing industries from attack. [ + ]

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published the Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF), a common security framework that addresses security issues in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems. [ + ]

Twitter has rolled out some key changes to simplify Tweets, enabling users to make the most of their 140-character limit. [ + ]

Up to 75 students will benefit from a partnership between the Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN) and Huawei Australia, with funding from the New Colombo Plan Mobility Programme. [ + ]

Enterprise mobility and unified communications specialist Wavelink has appointed Paul Craven to head a new Health Practice. [ + ]

Gartner predicts that the worldwide public cloud services market will grow by 17.2% in 2016, with the highest growth coming from cloud system infrastructure services. [ + ]

LinkedIn has announced its 2016 Power Profiles for Australia — a list of the most viewed professionals on LinkedIn. [ + ]

Mark Fioretto and Angela Fox will take over at Dell EMC from February 2017, following Dell's acquisition of EMC. [ + ]

Selected start-ups will receive up to $75,000 to work with Optus and Singtel Innov8 to test and validate solutions to business challenges such as Internet of Things, augmented reality solutions and artificial intelligence. [ + ]

The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) has found that privacy and vulnerability issues could have been avoided if device manufacturers had implemented the correct security and privacy principles. [ + ]