This Month
Privacy probe of Bunnings, Kmart use of facial recognition technology
The Office of Australian Information Commissioner has opened an investigation into Bunnings and Kmart’s use of facial recognition technology to prevent shoplifting
- Tom Burton
June
Dreyfus pledges sweeping data privacy reforms
After more than a decade of stalled reforms, new attorney-general Mark Dreyfus is pledging to bring sweeping reforms to Australia’s anachronistic data privacy laws.
- Tom Burton
‘Big gorilla’ Stack buys into Aussie data centre business
Builder Hickory has sold a controlling share of a key division to the US-based company as part of a $1.5 billion pipeline of growth.
- Martin Kelly
NAB misses app a day target, but saves millions from cloud transition
The bank’s technology chief, Patrick Wright, says it is on track to have 80 per cent of its applications in the public cloud by 2023, but it has not set a timeline for the last 20 per cent.
- Yolanda Redrup
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- Schneider Electric
How to optimise the nation’s chance to become a leading smart nation
Australia has a unique opportunity to lead the region as a smart nation, if we invest wisely in digital data infrastructure.
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by Schneider Electric
May
$85b deal marks biggest-ever chip takeover
Broadcom agreed to buy VMware sealing one of the largest technology deals in history and advancing the chipmaker’s quest to become a force in corporate software.
- Dina Bass and Liana Baker
Digital super agency considered for $10b transformation
The new government is overhauling the ministerial responsibilities for the annual $10 billion digital transformation program.
- Tom Burton
How tech companies are dealing with the talent shortage
Ongoing struggle to fill crucial roles in technology are forcing companies to think outside the box.
- Nina Hendy
Cybersecurity desperate for people power
Cybersecurity talent needs to be given time to incubate if we are to develop home-grown skills in this area.
- Mark Eggleton
Security key to choosing a crypto exchange
Whether you choose an international or local digital currency exchange, security is a factor that should not be ignored.
- Nicki Bourlioufas
- Exclusive
- Business IT
BlueScope expects fast payback from $30m tech investment
Australia’s largest steelmaker BlueScope has spent over $30 million globally on digital manufacturing technologies over the past two and half years.
- Tess Bennett
- Exclusive
- Funding
Breakthrough Aussie AI software firm banks $35m
Clear Dynamics, an Aussie software firm that lets organisations build modular tech systems to be put together like LEGO bricks has closed a $35m funding round.
- Paul Smith
The high cost of homelessness revealed in new data
A large public data project has found the average cost of supporting homeless people was $186,000 over six years and pointed to early interventions that could significantly reduce homelessness.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- AI
Origin to use AI to encourage rooftop solar panel sales
Origin Energy has developed new software to use aerial photography and AI algorithms to tell home owners how much power they could generate with solar panels.
- Tess Bennett
Cyber insurance’s ‘dirty little secret’: It’s useless
A leading expert warns that cyber insurance is useless and that insurers now ask such invasive questions that they have become dangerous honeypots for cyber gangs.
- John Davidson
Google’s software star on innovating at ANZ
Kelsey Hightower came to Australia to work with clients including ANZ Bank, and is plotting the tech giant’s path to the next phase of the internet.
- Yolanda Redrup
- Exclusive
- Business IT
‘Make development fun again’: Westpac’s innovation mission
The bank’s most senior technology executive says it can continue stripping out old systems to hit its $5.3 billion cost reduction targets.
- Paul Smith
April
TikTok-for-business unicorn Loom moves into Australia
Andreessen Horowitz-backed workplace video communications unicorn Loom is putting boots on the ground in Australia for the first time.
- Yolanda Redrup
Artificial intelligence keeps the spirits up during the pandemic
Coles will use AI to make sure the right drinks are in all of its bottle shops, in the latest example of digitising business processes that have soared since COVID-19 hit.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Cars
Tech troubles fuel Mercedes-Benz sales model dispute
Mercedes-Benz faces a Senate probe over its shift to a Tesla-style online sales model, as its disgruntled dealers battle with failing invoicing software.
- Jessica Sier
