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• NAB pushes cyber security for SMB customers

  As part of an initiative in partnership with systems integrator OutcomeX, NAB will offer Cisco Umbrella to its 400,000 small and medium business customers at a “special preferential price”.

• ACCC reiterates concerns over NBN pricing uncertainty for telcos

  NBN Co’s use of temporary discounts to implement new product offerings has drawn renewed scrutiny from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which says it is concerned about pricing uncertainty for retail service providers (RSPs).

• After nine years, Bill McDermott is stepping down as SAP CEO

  SAP has announced that CEO Bill McDermott will not be renewing his contract and will be stepping down as the CEO of SAP after a nine year tenure, with Christian Klein and Jennifer Morgan taking over, making Morgan the first ever female (co) SAP CEO.

• Facebook's Libra currency abandoned by major financial companies

  Facebook's ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency called Libra suffered severe setbacks on Friday, as major payment companies including Mastercard and Visa Inc quit the group behind the project.

• Apple to reimplement Swift compiler driver in Swift

  The goal is to replace the current Swift driver with a more extensible, maintainable, and flexible Swift code base

• Microsoft's next Windows 10 feature update gets a name

  Microsoft has named its next feature update the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, which is a month or two later than anticipated.

• Microsoft prods customers with Windows 10 retirement dates

  Microsoft is reminding customers that one version of Windows 10 received its final security update and another will fall off the support list.

• TPG cleared of allegedly misleading customers over 'prepayment' fee

  A legal challenge by the ACCC against TPG Telecom over alleged misleading conduct relating to a $20 ‘prepayment’ fee has been dismissed.

• Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman talks vision, AWS tension and IPO plans

  The new CEO of Snowflake talks frankly about what he wants to bring to the company and some of the key challenges on his agenda.

• Queensland Police equips motorbikes with drones

  Queensland Police Forensic Crash Unit unveiled motorbikes equipped with drones to help map crash sites.

• How SaaS vendors are designing software for the 'best of breed' world

  Chief product officers must bridge the divide between what users want and ensuring their offering doesn’t become a “Frankenstein of features”.

• Perth Mint gold to back InfiniGold digital token

  ​Fintech firm InfiniGold has announced it would launch a digital token backed by gold stored in the vaults of Australia's Perth Mint, one of the world's largest precious metals refiners.

• What are microservices? Your next software architecture

  Microservices break up monolithic code into easy-to-maintain chunks and are key to the devops philosophy

• Information technology – what is it good for?

  Technology fads come and go over time but the fundamental business benefits that IT can deliver remain the same. Any technology initiative that can produce dramatic improvements in process automation, data democratization or ease of use will materially improve the business credibility of your company’s IT team and likely enhance the career prospects of its leaders.

• VMware builds security unit around Carbon Black tech

  VMware has wrapped up its $2.1 billion buy of cloud-native endpoint security vendor Carbon Black to provide more comprehensive integrated security.