You may never have heard of Dyn, but you know the sites it supports. These include Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Reddit. They are all disabled Friday because of a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.

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Kodak hopes you'll be posing plenty for its new Ektra smartphone.

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How do you make a smartphone standout in a crowded market? Turn over design to the crowd, of course.

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While Australia has a large sports fan base, its sporting industry lags behind the US and Europe when it comes to exploiting technology, according to Jesus Castro, Microsoft Sports business development architect.

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Silicon Valley-based but Australian-listed memory company 4DS has announced that it has developed 40 nanometre resistive random access memory.

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The Australian government will level a AU$10,000 entry fee on any telcos wanting to take part in the 700MHz spectrum auction in April.

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New Zealand fibre customers are now waiting four days less than they were three months ago to be connected to the UFB, Chorus has said.

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Dell kicked off its first inclusion initiative in 2005 and 11 years on, the company's ANZ managing director says it's crucial for young women to keep the diversity dialogue open.

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The developer of the Early Warning Network has signed a deal to provide remote communications across Australia using Optus' satellites and the SatSleeve+.

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As Dell Technologies positions itself to be the one-stop shop for the entire IT stack, the Asia Pacific and Japan region is jumping on board to modernise IT, with cost saving the driving factor.

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Hackers targeted the sites as recent as February this year.

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Nexus owners can now install Android 7.1 and try out Google's new long-press to bring up app shortcuts.

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The total number of ransomware attacks rose by 13 percent in September alone, say Check Point cybersecurity researchers.

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Facial-recognition databases used by the FBI and state police hold images of 117 million US adults, according to new research.

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Apple is suing an electronics distributor over what it says are bogus Apple accessories sold on Amazon.

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The tech giant revamps its cloud storage offerings, introducing a cold storage tier to challenge Amazon Glacier.

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The ACMA is undertaking an initial investigation of the 1.5GHz and 3.6GHz spectrum bands for refarming to enable mobile broadband over future 5G networks.

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Dell Technologies has unveiled its new all-flash Isilon scale-out NAS, aimed at delivering massive storage capability and performance for 'future-ready' unstructured data projects such as DNA sequencing.

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Samsung Electronics has begun supplying 8GB DRAM for mobile that will equal smartphone specs to a premium notebook.

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Optus is boosting its 4G network in more than 30 sites across the ACT using the 1800MHz spectrum.

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Australian Statistician David Kalisch has told Senate Estimates the ABS incurred AU$30 million in remediation costs due to the Census night stuff-up.

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Apple is expected to announce new MacBooks at the Apple campus in Cupertino.

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Learn the two watershed moments for IT in the military over the past 50 years and the four most important domains of cybersecurity, according to former DoD chief Robert Gates at Gartner Symposium.

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Companies including Cloudnexa, Instructure, Salesforce, Splunk, Udacity already signed up to offer jobs to those with AWS Educate qualifications

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Combining Dell Data Security Solutions, Mozy by Dell, RSA, and VMware AirWatch, Dell Technologies has released a new product suite focused on endpoint data security.

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Seagate delivered record shipments in Exabytes as cloud storage demand fueled its first quarter.

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Researchers say a wearable tattoo can deliver accurate blood-alcohol level readouts to its wearer's smartphone.

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Even if your code is hacker-proof, there's still one way into your systems and it's much tougher to patch.

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​New research from Google and Gallup shows that race and gender play a big role in whether students even have an opportunity to start a career in tech.

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How pharmacy chain Day Lewis revamped its storage strategy.

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Microsoft's new speech-recognition record means professional transcribers could be among the first to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence.

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While in the midst of industry consultation over the oft-criticised CVC pricing, NBN CEO Bill Morrow has said the company expects pricing to eventually fall to AU$10.

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Along with listing areas with services available, build commenced, and build prep, NBN will now make RFS premises searchable by the end of 2016.

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Due to greater than expected demand, satellite customers are having to wait an average of five weeks to be connected and are experiencing 'multiple' network failures, NBN CEO Bill Morrow has said.

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In a region that spans the gamut of 'world leading' to trailing nations in the use of technology, it is in Australia's interest to help those fallen behind to catch up, the head of the International Cyber Policy Centre at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute has said.

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Vodafone Australia has said the three 'pressing' issues in the telecommunications industry are domestic roaming, spectrum allocation, and the USO.

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Vodafone Australia CEO Inaki Berroeta said the telco will provide 'continuous connectivity' by launching NBN plans next year to complement its mobile coverage.

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Customer engagement software provider Freshdesk has acquired social chat platform Chatimity to strengthen its AI chatbot capabilities.

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When managing a business based mainly on trust and reputation, Australia's iSelect believes it is best practice to partner with a security vendor rather than tackling threats internally.

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Chinese leading smartphone brand Huawei has announced that it has sold over 100 million units as of October 14 this year.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman told analysts that she had the power of focus and the company is set to deliver growth.

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As the headliner for Gartner Symposium 2016, the Microsoft CEO talked about the future of AI, the cloud, Windows, and what he plans to do with Linkedin.

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Metropolitan Police Service plans to give cameras to 22,000 officers in London's capital.

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A Dutch hardware company is working with Microsoft to deliver a completely different Windows 10 device.

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Hard-to-patch bugs in Java applications are proving a difficult problem to solve.

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Tech-support scammers are having better luck reaching younger victims with pop-up ads.

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Horizon Discovery has just embarked on a massive overhaul of the IT estate underpinning its commercial operations. Now, it plans to do the same for the science side of its business.

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Telstra is well on the path to 5G, with the announcement of its gigabit-speed 4G network in conjunction with Qualcomm's gigabit-class mobile router and 5G modem chipset solution.

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Australia's copyright law provisions concerning fair use, safe harbour provisions, and length of copyright need to be amended in order for TPP compliance, the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties has heard.

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UNSW cybersecurity professor Jill Slay has criticised the Australian IoT industry for failing to incorporate security into the core design of IoT products, and bemoaned what she sees as a significant lack of cybersecurity leadership in Australia.

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CISO Mike Burgess has resigned from Telstra, following the departures of CTO Vish Nandlall, COO Kate McKenzie, and CIO Erez Yarkoni this year.

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Senators from the Nick Xenophon Team have raised the idea of removing the word 'children' from the name of the eSafety office, saying it limits young adults from going to it for advice.

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Australian technology company SafetyCulture has raised AU$30 million in a Series B round to assist with its global hiring efforts and the rollout of new products and features.

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Telsyte research released by BlackBerry has ranked personal cloud storage as the top security concern for Australian enterprises.

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The NZ$28m fund to connect non-standard premises between 15 and 200 metres from the network has been extended out to December 2019.

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The Australian company known for the cochlear implant may be forced to send its research and development overseas when the impact of the federal government's tax cuts begins to unfold.

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With the company merger now complete, Dell EMC wants to cement itself as the leading infrastructure provider in the age of the Internet of Things.

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NBN and Nokia have achieved aggregate speeds of 8Gbps using XG-FAST, which can be deployed over networks that use copper for the last mile including FttN, FttB, and FttDP.

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Google and Facebook designed their infrastructures to apply computing where it makes the most sense. And that approach is starting to make more sense for other companies.

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It's mind boggling how an app on our smartphone or tablet can make our lives easier. Here are five iOS apps that get me through each day.

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Gartner opened its 2016 Symposium and ITxpo by telling technology leaders 'it's time to build again' and this time it's about laying the foundation for a better digital society.

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A team of engineers at the University of New South Wales has expanded the time during which calculations could be performed in a future silicon quantum computer.

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Decryption tools have cost cyber-crooks more than a million euros in two months by unlocking encrypted devices for free.

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CBA, NAB, Westpac, and Bendigo Bank have said Apple's security concerns on opening up access to its mobile wallet are 'completely baseless'.

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Hyper Anna, an AI analytics startup, has accepted its first round of investment from Reinventure and AirTree, and has just started working with Insurance Australia Group.

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Western Europe is on track to deliver high-speed G.fast first thanks to the European Commission's 2020 target of 100Mbps to 50 percent of households.

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Samsung Electronics has begun production of logic chips, or processors, in the 10-nanometre process that will likely power the Galaxy S8 to be launched early next year.

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More airlines banned the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 outright over the weekend, following the US Department of Transportation making Note 7s aboard an aircraft a criminal offence.

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Australian Bureau of Meteorology director Andrew Johnson has said no personal information or sensitive data was taken during the 2015 cybersecurity incident.

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