By adding more intelligence, machines can move beyond the ability to perform repetitive tasks, and it opens up more areas where they can be used. From a business and societal standpoint, that can lead to a number of benefits.

... Read more

Researchers at Bitdefender warn the data stealing Trojan poses a threat to the vast majority of Android users in China.

... Read more

One Nigerian email-compromise outfit may be earning as much as $3m a year by inserting itself between buyers and sellers in genuine business transactions.

... Read more

Microsoft is running a special 10-month bug bounty for Edge on Windows Insider Preview builds.

... Read more

Google's first contribution to the Open Compute Project is its 48V Open Rack v2.0 datacenter rack architecture that it worked on with Facebook.

... Read more

Samsung remains highly interested in the concept of foldable, or bendable, phones, says its mobile boss. But a bendable smartphone will be difficult to produce, design, and launch, as is the question of how it will win developers.

... Read more

Telkom Indonesia and Telstra are expanding their partnership by signing an MOU for exploring startup investment prospects in South East Asia.

... Read more

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's department has become the site of a state and federal investigation after the email address of her director-general was used to distribute a virus.

... Read more

The changing telecommunications landscape thanks to increased data usage, mobility, and the NBN rollout has spurred the ACCC to examine the effectiveness of its market regulation.

... Read more

Westpac Group chief operating officer John Arthur has announced his retirement, which will see the company distribute his existing responsibilities to others on the executive board.

... Read more

Enterprise software startup Atlassian has reported a $5.9 million operating loss in its first financial year as a public company.

... Read more

But with a precedent already set, will hackers seek larger rewards from the feds?

... Read more

Chip and PIN ATMs are supposed to be more secure than older models, but Rapid7 researchers have demonstrated that this may not be the case.

... Read more

Research shows that 15 million of us are concerned that we might prefer the company of our iPad, laptop or phone to the company of our friends.

... Read more

Google Maps could start acting as a parking assistant, if new features in a pre-release version make it into the main service.

... Read more

Don't move to Denver if you depend on fast cellular services to make your living.

... Read more

F-Secure researchers say parties involved in the South China Sea arbitration case were infected with the data-stealing NanHaiShu Trojan.

... Read more

Researchers have created the first programmable quantum computer using a technique called ion trapping.

... Read more

Suncorp Group has announced its completion of the delivery of its new core banking platform dubbed Project Ignite.

... Read more

M2M GPS tracking services will be provided in a white-labelled package from Optus Wholesale and 2SG Wholesale, aimed for use in the mining, security, transport, and health sectors.

... Read more

If you have a name involving accents or ligatures, then the Australian Census fields will not be able to handle your data.

... Read more

Corrupt .exe's downloads of both Audacity and Classic Shell have been removed from FossHub.com after being found laden with a Master Boot Record-overwriting Trojan.

... Read more

With the Galaxy Note 7 being the fourth series with a dual-edge display, Samsung hopes more developers will create edge features as it will continue to be a staple for future flagship phones, the firm's mobile boss says.

... Read more

Ahead of its 5G trial run in 2018, Telstra will use Ericsson's radio test bed to test 5G capabilities next month.

... Read more

The Digital Transformation Office plans to deliver a framework on how it will build a federated identity hub that is expected to simplify transactions between people and the government.

... Read more

Iris scanning will, in the long-run, not only arm flagship phones such as the Galaxy Note 7 but trickle down to mid-end phones, says Samsung mobile boss DJ Koh.

... Read more

StarHub again lost revenue in mobile and pay TV, but offset this by continuing gains in broadband and enterprise fixed services for a net profit of SG$201.4 million on revenue of SG$1.18 billion.

... Read more

LG Electronics has sent out invites for the unveiling of its next flagship smartphone, the V20, to be held in San Francisco and Seoul on September 6 and 7, respectively.

... Read more

The $35 billion acquisition between the two largest ride-hailing firms in China is unlikely to be a smooth ride as it could be difficult to get the nod from regulators, while also sparking monopoly concerns.

... Read more

Phone and Internet provision becomes unaffordable to most consumers in the country - and those who can pay are getting very poor levels of service.

... Read more

MIT researchers have developed an imaging technique that can cheaply simulate the way objects respond to various forces, with potential applications as diverse as games and civil engineering.

... Read more

Whitehall departments, devolved governments, and local authorities now all have an official provider of distributed ledger technology.

... Read more

The device can separate biological particles at the nanoscale and could help enable physicians to detect diseases like cancer.

... Read more

Mozilla says Firefox 48's new Electrolysis multi-process architecture is the biggest change it's ever made to the browser.

... Read more

European storage company Syneto on agile development and the needs of its SME customer base

... Read more

Top 500 influencers will now be able to post 30-second videos on business topics.

... Read more

Your device's battery status may be giving away far more information about you on the web than you know.

... Read more

Minister for Small Business Michael McCormack told reporters on Wednesday that the ABS has assured the government of its ongoing security around the Census data it collects.

... Read more

Telstra has now lost its CIO, COO, and CTO over the past six months, coinciding with seven network outages across the country during the same period of time.

... Read more

The Australian Taxation Office believes there is potential in growing the datasets that are held by the Australian Business Register.

... Read more

While NBN has locked down the wholesale fixed-line broadband competition through regulation, wireless broadband remains a strong competitor for internet access.

... Read more

NSW Minister for Trade, Tourism and Major Events Stuart Ayres has said that innovation is ingrained in the DNA of Australians as the nation has always found a way to 'make things happen'.

... Read more

Storage giant Seagate returned to profit in the fourth quarter, only to see its full-year earnings tank in comparison to last year.

... Read more

Instagram's new Stories feature allows users to post brief pictures and videos that disappear after 24 hours, much like Snapchat's Stories feature.

... Read more

The Department of Human Services has pointed out that while it looks to digitise as far as it possibly can, it remains focused on delivering an omni-channel experience for its customers.

... Read more

Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex has taken its trading platform offline, telling users that it suffered a security breach which resulted in the loss of potentially millions of dollars.

... Read more

97 percent of all of Google's YouTube traffic is now secured by HTTPS.

... Read more

Australia Post Ventures has begun exploring how blockchain technology can be used in areas of identity, registries, and e-voting.

... Read more

Quantum computers could tear through the encryption used today, so researchers are looking at building new quantum-proof cryptography.

... Read more

Suspected head of an international criminal network which took $60m from victims caught following cooperation between authorities and cybersecurity firms

... Read more

MIT says a new system can accurately tell how much energy each home device is using without needing to process the data in the cloud.

... Read more

Barclays has claimed a first with the abolition of passwords and the use of voice recognition instead.

... Read more

Android users will be told of new device logins to their Google accounts via a notification on the smartphone rather than by email.

... Read more

Last week London saw the arrival of a restaurant celebrating 3D printed food, furniture, and cutlery. Could a chain of dining spots be next?

... Read more

Google's 13th monthly Android patch puts a spotlight on all the bugs outside the core operating system.

... Read more

A shadow assistant minister has said Australians should be identified by a number, while the Queensland government has invoked Sesame Street to get people to complete the next week's Census.

... Read more

Government advisor and non-executive director Monica Bradley believes a majority of government failures have nothing to do with technology.

... Read more

The trial awarding VirnetX $625.6m in damages from Apple for patent infringement was not a fair trial, as jurors heard evidence from two lawsuits that will now be heard in two separate trials.

... Read more

Lockheed Martin will invest an initial AU$13 million over three years to establish a Science Technology Engineering Leadership and Research Laboratory in Melbourne.

... Read more

Digital Transformation Office CEO Paul Shetler has outlined that in the last year the organisation has fulfilled its seven initial goals, but believes there is still more work to be done.

... Read more

The Queensland government has launched a program aiming to make it easier for startups and small businesses to fill government contracts.

... Read more

Whether the US ratifies the TPP will test its credibility among APAC nations, the prime minister of Singapore has told the US Chamber of Commerce.

... Read more

The Department of Human Services has flagged SAP as the preferred tenderer to overhaul its 30-year-old welfare payments platform.

... Read more

Despite 4G penetration reaching up to 98 percent of the population, just 52 percent of mobile users in Australia are using a 4G network.

... Read more

Tim Kelsey has been appointed as the CEO of the Australian Digital Health Agency, a newly established agency which is responsible for all national digital health services and systems.

... Read more

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is still investigating the cause behind the so-called technical glitch that prevented customers from accessing their NetBank or CommBank app on Monday afternoon.

... Read more

TruRating plans to shortly launch in North America and at the same time launch a new platform that will take on the likes of Yelp! and TripAdvisor.

... Read more

Russia's intelligence agency says it has found spyware on the networks of 20 organisations.

... Read more

In a new Tech Pro Research survey, nearly three-quarters of respondents said they chose an industry cloud service provider based on who could protect their company's data.

... Read more

Software as a service (SaaS) is experiencing healthy growth, is diversifying, and is increasingly widely adopted.

... Read more

It's easy to get overwhelmed when choosing a SaaS provider. Follow this list, and you won't fret about forgetting to ask vendors the most essential questions.

... Read more

Cloud services have many advantages, and can save your organisation money -- but there are also potential pitfalls and additional costs to watch out for.

... Read more

Here are eight tips to make sure your company gets the most out of a SaaS vendor, from the beginning to the end of the relationship.

... Read more

Google has started forcing visitors to the google.com domain to do so only via secure HTTPS connections.

... Read more

Google is rolling out updates to Search, Maps and YouTube to keep its services in the spotlight during the Olympics.

... Read more

SwiftKey has switched off its sync service after users began receiving odd predictions, apparently from other people's devices.

... Read more

What does the on-demand jobs market mean for IT staffing and projects?

... Read more

Uber's main rival in China will merge with the ridesharing company to form a company worth $35 billion.

... Read more

Automotive parts manufacturing company Delphi Automotive has unveiled plans to test a small fleet of automated taxis in 2017.

... Read more

NEC Australia has been awarded with a AU$780,000 contract to deploy facial-recognition technology for South Australia Police.

... Read more

Despite posting a Q1 profit, Sony's semiconductor and mobile phone segments -- as well as earthquakes -- are preventing the tech giant from reporting positive figures throughout the business.

... Read more

NEC Australia believes the success of its managed service business underpinned the reported 15 percent revenue growth during the 2016 financial year.

... Read more

MYOB has paid NZ$25.1 million on completion, and expects to pay the remainder in 2017 and 2018 when certain conditions are satisfied.

... Read more

LG's upcoming V20 phablet in September will come with the latest OS, Android Nougat.

... Read more

Three big players will soon each have more than a billion users, so what does that mean for the future?

... Read more