An Australian symposium on the role of social media during disasters will assess the role of tools such as Twitter and Facebook in the recent Queensland floods, Christchurch earthquake and in future crises.

The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in recent weeks will cause disruptions to the Australian and New Zealand ICT markets and supply chains, according to IDC.

Symantec researchers have detected a new phishing scam that targets job seekers, turns them into inadvertent money launderers and hands unlimited access to their bank accounts over to cybercriminals.

Under a three-year contract with NBN Co, IBM Australia will build and manage business operational support systems for the Australian National Broadband Network.

A new compliance campaign from ACMA will help stop telemarketing scammers purporting to be from antivirus companies who infect consumers’ computers with malware and steal users’ personal information.

Eaton’s Blackout Tracker report identifies Queensland as the state reporting the greatest number of power outages in 2010.

Following the introduction of the Product Stewardship Bill into federal parliament, the Australian Information Industry Association and Product Stewardship Australia have agreed to create a new product stewardship group to oversee the national e-waste recycling scheme.

The small but influential voice logging industry is undergoing change. Australian customers will still have options.

More than 4100 Australian businesses have used the Getting Aussie Business Online tool from Google and MYOB to create a website in the three weeks the tool has been operational.

A global study into the business value of social media strategies has found that there are as many failures as successes when it comes to organisations attempting to foster fans on social media sites like Facebook.

The Communications Alliance has teamed up with University of Melbourne's IBES to look into the effect of changes in the telecommunications and media industries on regulation in the digital economy.

A new CSIRO wireless project, Ngara, could be a boon for rural and regional broadband. The technology promises to be four times as efficient as competing wireless technologies.

EMC announced last week that its SecureID system had been breached. According to one security consultancy, this breach may have completely compromised the two-factor authentication product, exposing customers’ systems to attack.

APC and NextDC have signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum of Understanding for the joint marketing of NEXTDC data centres in Australia and internationally.

Emerson Network Power has announced that it will help Datacraft design six internet data centres in India.