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• Optus back in court over NBN migration claims

  Optus faces new Federal Court proceedings brought by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over a misleading communication with its customers.

• Nearmap aerial imagery AI to pick out pools, panels, potentially anything

  ​The swimming pool capital of Australia is the Perth suburb of City Beach. Just under 60 per cent of properties have their own pool, a remarkable statistic considering most dwelling are minutes from the ocean.

• What to expect when you’re expecting digital twins

  Digital twins are the "killer app" for the Internet of Things (IoT) and, more profoundly, the new IT centre of gravity for event-driven, asset-centric business processes across all industries.

• Huawei loses trade secrets case against US chip designer CNEX

  A US jury on Wednesday cleared California semiconductor designer CNEX Labs Inc of stealing trade secrets from Chinese electronics giant Huawei while awarding CNEX no damages on its own trade theft claims.

• How to make cybersecurity resonate with employees

  Organisations are facing increased threats from cyber attacks, and employees are often the weakest link in their defence posture.

• ANZ HR gets agile, risk and finance could be next

  The 600 employees in ANZ’s Talent & Culture division are moving to adopt agile ways of organising themselves as part of the bank’s ‘New Ways of Working’ (NWOW) transformation program.

• Improve privacy practices or else, OAIC warns CBA

  The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will be required to review its privacy and data retention policies under threat of court action from the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner.

• Tableau CEO eyes 'time machine leap forward' after Salesforce acquisition

  Salesforce acquired Tableau in a $15.7 billion all-stock deal last month, making it the CRM giant's biggest acquisition by some distance.

• Why we need a more human-centric approach to IoT application design

  The expectations around the value that IoT promises to deliver are high with worldwide IoT spending expected to hit a trillion dollars by 2022.

• Data breach exposed apprentices’ passport details, employment agreements

  An open Amazon Web Services S3 bucket exposed sensitive data about apprentices, including passport scans, visa details, employment agreements and performance warnings.

• Commonwealth seeks savings with whole-of-government AWS deal

  The government has signed a new volume sourcing agreement with Amazon Web Services that it says will help slash the public sector’s cloud bill.

• ANZ takes leaf out of Google’s book to help steer agile teams

  ANZ is beginning to employ a management framework developed by Andrew Groves at Intel and famously employed at Google, as well as at other tech heavyweights including LinkedIn and Twitter, to help promote alignment across its business as it continues its move towards an agile operating model based on semi-autonomous teams.

• Microsoft beefs up OneDrive security

  Microsoft has announced changes to its OneDrive storage service that will let consumers protect some or even all of their cloud-stored documents.

• Oracle does-in Dyn, resets DNS services to cloud

  Oracle wants its DNS customers to migrate from its Dyn service to Oracle Cloud services, but some of those customers are very unhappy.

• Extreme targets cloud services, SD-WAN, WiFi 6 with US$210M Aerohive grab

  Extreme buys Aerohive’s wireless networking technology – including its new WiFi 6 gear – SD-WAN software and cloud-management services.