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Wearables are the next smartphones, says Telstra
Telstra is preparing for a 'Cambrian explosion' with the internet of things, and 5G will play a crucial role.
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'Dark web' keeps criminals out of reach of metadata retention laws
Criminals and terrorists are taking cover in a part of the web that can’t be Googled. It’s called the dark web and it’s growing.
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Melbourne clusters around its start-up culture
Lord mayor Robert Doyle says the Victorian capital has the economic pillars needed to sustain business growth.
Top stories
Streaming
Apple, Beats move forward with streaming service to rival Spotify
Ben Sisario, Brian X. Chen Apple is pressing ahead with a sweeping overhaul of its digital music services that would allow the company to compete directly with streaming upstarts like Spotify.
Social
Facebook wants Messenger to become a hub for commerce
Vindu Goel Social network opens chat app up to developers, allowing for applications like ordering food or tracking packages through chats with businesses, or more customisable games and emoji.
Software
Microsoft partners with Android tablet-makers in mobile Office push
Nick Wingfield Microsoft is serious about making its most lucrative business, Office, relevant for mobile users. What is less clear is how much money it will be able to make from them.
Wearables are the next smartphones, says Telstra
Hannah Francis Telstra is preparing for the internet of things, and 5G will play a crucial role.
Security
New bugs found in common encryption software
New bugs in the widely used encryption software known as OpenSSL were disclosed on Thursday, though experts say do not pose a serious threat like the "Heartbleed" vulnerability in the same technology that surfaced a year ago.
NBN
Senate committee slams NBN roll out
A parliamentary committee has accused NBN Co of secrecy over future costs of rolling out the broadband network.
Metadata
'Dark web' keeps criminals out of reach of metadata retention laws
Liam Tung Criminals and terrorists are taking cover in a part of the web that can’t be Googled. It’s called the dark web and it’s growing.
Start-up
Melbourne clusters around start-ups
Lia Timson Lord mayor Robert Doyle says the Victorian capital has the economic pillars needed to sustain business growth.
Start-up
Stylerunner twins teach lesson in upmarket online success
Sylvia Pennington While scores of e-tailers target the bargain dollar, these twins have hit a sweat spot with their online start-up that does the opposite.
CeBIT
Angela Merkel urges closer ties with rising tech giant China
Frank ZELLER German Chancellor Angela Merkel has urged closer high-tech cooperation with China as she opened a major IT business fair where the Asian giant is the official partner country.
Start-ups
'Dead unicorns': investor warns Valley bubble burst draws near
Mik Isaac Bill Gurley, who has made a career of picking the winners and losers in the future of technology, says we'll soon see the negative effects of tech start-ups' high burn rates.
'We're world champions, we want to be better,' says Lewis Hamilton
Lia Timson Already World Champions, Sunday's winners Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg want to use biometrics to improve further.
Virtual currency
IBM looks at adopting bitcoin technology for major currencies
Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss The objective is reportedly to allow people to transfer cash or make payments instantaneously without a bank or clearing party involved, saving on transaction costs.
m-payments
Apple Pay bridging bricks-and-mortar and online fraud
Brian Krebs Lost amid the Apple media firestorm these past few weeks is a stark and rather unsettling reality.
Slack: the office chat app that may finally sink work email
Farhad Manjoo If email is to be replaced, it will be by new tools that allow people to collaborate in big groups and promote information transparency across the company.
Malware
Microsoft fixes Stuxnet bug, again
Brian Krebs Microsoft pushed 14 update bundles to address at least 43 separate vulnerabilities in Office, IE, Exchange and a host of other components.
m-payments
Commonwealth Bank does away with smartphone tap-and-go pay sticker for Android
Beverley Head Commbank's latest app opens up tap-and-go payments for any Android phone using 4.4 and above
Start-up
Andrew Dent presents Zeetings to help keep audiences awake
Beverley Head Andrew Dent returned to Australia five years ago – but he still bears the hallmarks of years spent in the start-up scenes of Seattle and Silicon Valley.
Cloud
Rightsizing: the best way to tackle cloud computing
Stuart Corner The cloud's advantages over an in-house system are not necessarily simple, or fixed.
Sports Tech
Competitive sport still afraid of technology
Matthew Hall With so much technology around, you’d think more would be making its way onto sports grounds and playing fields.
