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Ministers Thrash Out Policies For Driverless Car Road Rules

Computer Daily News November 14, 2016 No Comments

Australia’s federal state and territory transport ministers havereed to a suite of 24 national policies on possible road rules for fully driverless cars. One of the policies declares that a…

Unseen Barriers Holding Back Aussies From Working At Home

Computer Daily News November 14, 2016 No Comments

Many more Australians could be working from home – but somehow it’s difficult to know what’s holding them back according to a new survey carried out for Telstra by the…

Huge New Data Leak: Details Of 700K Oz Jobseekers Exposed

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Global IT and management consultancy Capgemini has been blamed for exposing the private information of tens of thousands of Australian jobseekers online. Australian security researcher Troy Hunt said the breach…

CMOs To Be Digitally Challenged

Computer Daily News November 11, 2016 No Comments

Digital channels, smart mobility and new marketing and advertising technologies are fundamentally redefining what is expected of marketing leaders, a survey of 450 senior marketing executives around Australia, New Zealand,…

Android Still On Top Down Under

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Numbers published by Worldpanel ComTech have revealed that Android’s market share of the mobile market in Australia rose to 58.2 percent in the last year. Android users made up 54.5pc…

ATO Hits Optus With Own Goal Tax Bill

Computer Daily News November 11, 2016 No Comments

Singapore Telecommunications the owners of Optus have been hit with a $326M dollar tax bill by the ATO, the tax dates back, to its takeover of Optus in 2001 for…

Samsung Delivers Media Me Culpa

Computer Daily News November 10, 2016 No Comments

Samsung Electronics took out full-page newspaper ads in the US to apologise for its fire-prone Not 7 phones, in a bid to restore its battered reputation. The message from the…

MacBook Pro Sales Defy Critics

Computer Daily News November 10, 2016 No Comments

Despite lots of media criticism, revenue numbers for Apple’s new MacBook Pro are sky high, according to Slice Intelligence. The 2016 MacBook Pro starts at US$1499 for the non-Touch Bar…

Govt. Plans To Spend $45 Million On New Cyber-Security Centres

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The Turnbull Government has announced plans to launch Academic Centres of Cyber Security Excellence in the hope of improving Australia’s cyber-security through education and research. For a cost of A$4.5…

Credit Unions Open To Apple Pay

Computer Daily News November 10, 2016 No Comments

Three of Australia’s big four banks may have blacklisted the Apple Pay contactless payments system – which allows customers to pay for goods with a wave of their iPhone or…