IT Pro

Julie Bishop's websites cost $113,000

Three websites have cost taxpayers $113,130 to upgrade.

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Victoria commits $3m to lift ICT

Government has plan to make companies more tech-savvy, improve sector.

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Tap-and-go fraud 'low'

Police last week blamed contactless cards for an increase in fraud. Those supplying the cards say that is news to them.

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Ericsson attempts phone comeback

Ericsson has already had two tries at the mobile phone market. Now it will try chips for other brands' handsets.

Adam Ewing 10:21 AM Swedish technology pioneer Ericsson is betting third time's the charm for its mobile phone comeback.

Monitoring

Seeking out sarcasm

The Secret Service wants to automatically, algorithmically scan all your posts to detect sarcasm and deduce your intended meaning? Sounds like a great idea.

10:24 AM Secret Service is looking to buy software that can spot sarcasm on social media. Good luck with that.

Espionage

China state media calls for 'severe punishment' for Google, Apple, tech firms

Payback time: Chinese media calls for China to punish US technology companies.

Chinese state media lashed out at tech giants, denouncing 'the pawns' of the US government for monitoring China and stealing secrets.

Web design

Julie Bishop's websites cost $113,000

Julie Bishop's websites came under fire in a Senate budget estimates hearing on Wednesday.

Phillip Thomson 11:30 AM Three websites have cost taxpayers $113,130, according to answers to questions on notice at Senate budget estimates.

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Jobs

Victoria commits $3m to lift ICT

The Victorian government wants to encourage more people into technology careers and help businesses employ more IT workers.

Sylvia Pennington After spending three years getting its own high-tech house in order, the Victorian government has turned its attention elsewhere, with a $3 million plan to make companies more tech-savvy and get more people working in the technology sector.

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Payments

Tap-and-go card fraud in Australia low: financial institutions

Beverley Head Victoria Police last week blamed contactless cards for an increase in fraud. Those supplying the cards say that is news to them.

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Data centres

Prefab data centres in vogue

Stuart Corner Infrastructure providers are seeing surge of interest in their prefabricated offerings, which are forecast to take a bigger share of the market over the next few years.

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Skimming

Thieves planted malware to hack ATMS

Two men arrested in Macau for allegedly planting malware on local ATMs (shown with equipment reportedly seized from their hotel room).

Brian Krebs ATM skimming attack may be a harbinger of more sophisticated scams to come.

Restaurant reviews

'Sick', 'vomit', 'diarrhoea' online flags for food authorities

NY authorities are using social chatter about food poisoning to identify cases worth a check.

Matthew Hall Australian health authorities are tracking a New York City initiative that uses social media and restaurant review websites to investigate cases of food poisoning.

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Security

Dark side to Internet of Things: hacked homes and invasive ads

Sometime soon, you may be able to turn your lights on with your iPhone. That, however, raises the question of what could happen if your device fell into the hands of a hacker.

Nick Bilton I can't shake the feeling that one day, maybe, just maybe, my entire apartment is going to get hacked.

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Innovation

Intel taps Macquarie University for 5G mobile research

Researchers are looking for more efficient technologies for mobile communications.

Stuart Corner A team of researchers at Macquarie University has been selected to help develop technologies for the next generation of cellular communications, dubbed 5G.

Security

NSA collecting millions of faces from web images

One of the NSA slides documenting the facial recognition program.

James Risen and Laura Poitras The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents.

Broadband

NBN Co chief to vigorously defend US lawsuit

Bill Morrow from NBN Co appearing before the Select Committee on the NBN earlier this month.

The executive appointed to run the NBN will "vigorously defend" the actions he took while boss of an American gas company.

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Bids

Clippers bid: Steve Ballmer has always lived large

As a Microsoft executive from 1980 to 2014, Steve Ballmer developed a reputation for having an exuberant personality

Chris O'Brien Reports that ex-Microsoft chief has submitted the winning bid for the Los Angeles Clippers may represent the culmination of a long quest to become involved with pro sports.

Opinion

Apple is starting to get exciting again

Seth Fiegerman In recent weeks there have been quite a few developments to justify dusting off your excitement about the tech giant.

Security

Iranian hackers use Facebook to spy on US

Iranian hackers created false Facebook accounts to spy on leaders in the United States.

Jim Finkle In a three-year cyber espionage campaign, Iranian hackers created false social media accounts and a bogus news site to spy on leaders in the US, Israel and other countries.

Start-up

Tech women empowered by no-bias start-up gatherings

The climb is easier if women have support.

Hannah Duke "Women in tech" is a dangerous topic. It will generate eye rolls, groans and defensive tirades - even before you've said much more than those three words.

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Web

Mary Meeker's 2014 Internet Trends report is a must read

The future is mobile: According to Mary Meeker's State of the Internet, more than 1.8 billion photos are shared every day.

Michael Koziol According to Mary Meeker, we're uploading and sharing 1.8 billion photos daily. And she should know.

Acquisition

Apple agrees to buy Beats for $3.25 billion in its biggest-ever deal

Beats originally found success with high-end headphones.

Adam Satariano Apple has agreed to buy Beats Electronics for $3.25 billion, its biggest-ever acquisition, nabbing a popular line of headphones and a nascent subscription music-streaming service.