The majority of Australian IT budgets are now being spent on transformation and innovation rather than merely keeping the lights on, Telsyte research indicates. [ + ]

THINK CHINA's co-founder has received accolades at the 2016 Sydney City Business Awards, which is sponsored by the City of Sydney. [ + ]

A new study suggests that, by 2038, the majority of vehicles on Queensland roads will be autonomous. [ + ]

A popular Android Trojan is capable of spoofing the login pages of more than 50 banks, including several from Australia, research from Avast has shown. [ + ]

Nearly nine in 10 business and IT leaders responding to a BMC survey indicate that they are confident in the mainframe's long-term viability. [ + ]

Third-party Oracle and SAP support services company Rimini Street has expanded its workforce in the A/NZ region by 52% and opened a new office in Melbourne. [ + ]

Fujitsu Australia will provide a range of services to TAFE Queensland under a $60m ICT support contract. [ + ]

The YourDC data centre at Edinburgh Parks has become the first in Australia to receive a TIA-942 Rated-3 certification from Enterprise Product Integration (EPI). [ + ]

Commonwealth Bank and Alipay will collaborate to make it easier for Australian customers to pay for goods over Alibaba's e-commerce websites, and to let Chinese tourists use Alipay in Australian brick-and-mortar stores. [ + ]

FinTech Australia's first Collab/Collide summit will explore new regulatory and technology developments in the FinTech sector and what they mean for Australia's FinTech ecosystem. [ + ]

The Red Cross Blood Services said human error was at fault for exposing information on 550,000 blood donors in what could have been Australia's largest leak of personal data to date. [ + ]

Qualcomm has revealed plans to acquire NXP Semiconductors for US$47bn ($61.8bn) in the chip industry's largest acquisition to date. [ + ]

The ACCC has released a discussion paper exploring whether to declare a domestic mobile roaming service, which would let consumers use other mobile networks when outside of their provider's footprint. [ + ]

Consumer NZ will no longer be recommending Fitbit fitness trackers, calling their reliability into question. [ + ]

The number of algorithm-based patent applications has surged thirty-fold over the past 15 years as companies seek to protect their information assets and analytic models. [ + ]