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• Government launches digital economy strategy

  Digital skills, government digital services, infrastructure, access to quality data and an ‘enabling environment’ are the federal government’s key areas of focus in a new digital economy strategy launched today.

• Conde Nast embraces chaos engineering with PagerDuty to protect against outages

  Until recently, the 100-year-old publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair, Conde Nast, had offices in each country acting as independent business units with differing processes and workflows. But a transformation drive under the new umbrella of Conde Nast International, which looks after the offices outside of North America, saw the business turn to incident response and visibility organisation PagerDuty to help protect against costly outages.

• GDPR helps drive growth in privacy tech

  Over the past year and a half the dialogue around privacy, and the social implications of violations of privacy, has shifted significantly, according to Trevor Hughes. Partly that shift has been driven by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, said Hughes, who is the president and chief executive officer of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

• Microsoft Australia increases Azure cloud pricing

  Microsoft Australia will increase Azure prices by eight per cent as of 1 January 2019.

• Twitter tumbles on concerns about hacking activity

  Twitter shares fell almost seven per cent on Monday after the company said it was investigating unusual traffic that might be from state-sponsored hackers.

• Cisco bets US$660M on silicon-photonics firm Luxtera

  Cisco says the US$660 million it's paying for optical semiconductor company Luxtera will address the need for speed in data centers and webscale networks.

• For Apple, 2018 meant a new enterprise tack

  Though it's often seen as a consumer-centric company, Apple now touches a wide variety of enterprise IT operations. That may even accelerate in 2019.

• Telstra boosts subsea cable portfolio with 25 per cent stake in Southern Cross

  Telstra will purchase a 25 per cent stake in Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN), joining existing shareholders Spark New Zealand, Optus’ parent company Singtel and Verizon Business.

• Fishburners seeks to give a leg-up to regional startups

  A new service from Fishburners offers startup founders in regional areas the opportunity to take advantage of the organisation’s membership base and resources.

• Australian robotics champion joins CSIRO’s Data61

  CSIRO’s Data61 has appointed Dr Sue Keay to lead its Cyber Physical Systems program, which is focused on the “connection of digital devices to the physical environment”.

• Major telcos put on notice over complaints-handling

  Aussie Broadband, Dodo, Exetel, Foxtel, iiNet, M2, Internode, MyRepublic, Optus, PRimus, TPG, and Vodafone Hutchison Australia are among dozens of telecommunications service providers put on notice over failing to meet mandatory complaints-handling standards.

• Telstra declares Sydney and Melbourne sites 5G-ready

  Telstra has upgraded two base stations in Sydney and one in Melbourne in preparation for the expected launch next year of its first 5G services.

• Australian ‘neobank’ Xinja clears regulatory hurdle

  The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a restricted banking licence to Xinja — a digital-only bank with a focus on mobile.

• Businesses sign up to Global Talent Scheme pilot

  ​Five organisations have signed up to the government’s pilot Global Talent Scheme (GTS) program, launched in July in a bid to make it easier for big business and tech start-ups to hire overseas talent for highly skilled roles.

• Soul Machines debuts DIY digital human

  Soul Machines, the NZ company behind digitally created avatars that can put a human-like face on chatbots, is offerings its customers a tool to enable them to customise its digital creations.