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• How Slack helps Iress innovate and ship code

  Slack’s communications platform has played a key role in helping Australian-headquartered financial software publisher Iress promote collaboration among its geographically dispersed workforce. However, it is also central to the build pipelines of Iress’ developers as well as playing a key role when it comes to the ops.

• QLD closes investigation on former eHealth boss

  Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) said on Thursday that there was insufficient evidence to commence a criminal prosecution against the state’s former eHealth chief, Dr Richard Ashby.

• Apple spars with EU as US$14 billion Irish tax dispute drags on

  Apple accused the European Commission of misunderstanding its business on day two of the iPhone maker's appeal against a US$14 billion tax order, in a dispute that is key to the EU's drive to collect more taxes but which could also run for years.

• Ziggy Switkowski to continue as NBN Co chair

  NBN Co chair Dr Ziggy Switkowski was been given another three-year term, finance minister Senator Mathias Cormann and communications minister Paul Fletcher announced today.

• ATMs, traffic lights can now use NBN infrastructure

  NBN Co has launched a new ‘Network Extensions’ option that allows operators of ATMs and traffic and environmental infrastructure to use the company’s network to connect their devices.

• Cisco spreads ACI to Microsoft Azure, multi-cloud and SD-WAN environments

  Cisco is significantly spreading its ACI technology to help customers grow and control hybrid​, multi-cloud and SD-WAN environments.

• Back-up the data in AWS Elastic Block Store

  A recent Amazon outage resulted in a small number of customers losing production data stored in their accounts.

• Why Australian organisations need to adopt a cloud-native approach

  Many businesses are hitting a wall when it comes to delivering value and innovation from their cloud strategy. That’s because they have mainly focused on application migration – moving old apps and functionality onto a cloud platform. While this model was effective for a while, being in the cloud now carries much more importance to Australian organisations.

• Insights from Inspire

  Following a recent trip to the US to attend the Microsoft Inspire conference, I was prompted to reflect on some key themes that emerged and examine; how we are putting these into practice across organisations in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), and what the most pressing actions organisations should be taking.

• Mozilla steps on the gas, cuts time between Firefox upgrades in half

  Beginning with Firefox 74, slated to ship in March 2020, Mozilla will begin pushing out browser updates every four weeks.

• Seek warns of phishing campaign

  Seek has warned of a phishing campaign that impersonates the job posting service’s head of digital marketing, Christophe Eymery.

• ASIO suggests longer data retention period

  Australia’s best known intelligence agency, ASIO, says that current data retention rules that require telcos to keep a range of information about their customers' use of Internet and phone services for two years should be considered a “minimum requirement”.

• Cloud helping Australia Post make sense of your abominable handwriting

  Australia Post is using cloud-based optical character recognition (OCR) to help decipher the semi-legible addresses scrawled on parcels and letters.

• Cloud: ANZ shifts from ‘tactical projects’ to ‘an industrialised factory’

  ANZ now looks at cloud computing through the prism of “an industrialised factory” rather than “tactical projects,” the bank’s tech chief said today.

• Facebook oversight board won’t have mandate to change policy

  ​Facebook will allow a new outside oversight board to make final decisions on whether individual pieces of content can be displayed on the social media site, but the group won't be able to make policy changes, the company said on Tuesday.