Industry News
A/NZ companies win Oracle cloud innovation awards
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 unis falling behind social media curve
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. [ + ]
Crossing the digital divide worldwide
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. [ + ]
Technology to drive the future of warehousing
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. [ + ]
Technology adoption delayed by small business
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 sets up cybersecurity practice
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 IIC releases Industrial Internet Security Framework
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 users now say more than before
Twitter has rolled out some key changes to simplify Tweets, enabling users to make the most of their 140-character limit. [ + ]
ICT students win under New Colombo Plan
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. [ + ]
Wavelink launches health practice
Enterprise mobility and unified communications specialist Wavelink has appointed Paul Craven to head a new Health Practice. [ + ]
Gartner predicts 17% public cloud services growth
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 unveils Australian Power Profiles
LinkedIn has announced its 2016 Power Profiles for Australia — a list of the most viewed professionals on LinkedIn. [ + ]
Dell EMC Australia and NZ leaders announced
Mark Fioretto and Angela Fox will take over at Dell EMC from February 2017, following Dell's acquisition of EMC. [ + ]
Optus invites start-up submissions for Innov8 Connect
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. [ + ]
All recently reported IoT vulnerabilities avoidable, says OTA
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. [ + ]