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High-tech scene sees IT expats comes home
You've spent decades playing with the Valley kids, what could possibly compel you to up sticks and return?
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'Uber for cleaners' TidyMe raises capital
Australia could be set for another online marketplace success story to sit alongside 99designs and Freelancer.
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Mid-air 'plane hack' raises big ethical questions
US hacker Chris Roberts insists he's one of the good kind, but things aren't always black and white.
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IT expat comes home
Sylvia Pennington 12:00 AM You've spent two decades playing with the big kids in the super-charged start-up world of Silicon Valley, after quitting Australia's infant IT industry in the mid-nineties – what could possibly compel you to up sticks and return?
Security
The history of our insecure internet
The internet grew from the work of many people over several decades. Few predicted how essential it would become to our lives or the ways that it would make us more vulnerable to scam artists, snoops and spies.
Security
Rent-a-hacker site leaks Aussies' details
Liam Tung The cat's out of the bag for about 60 Australians who thought they could anonymously rent a hacker without being caught.
$474m deal and no better service
Noel Towell Three years ago, senior public servants promised a half-billion-dollar deal with Telstra would deliver shorter waiting times for Centrelink's phone lines.
Twitter an odd bird at Asian electronics show
Tim Biggs The sole visitor to the Twitter stand at CES Asia suggests that Chinese haven't yet realised the usefulness of the microblogging site for marketing to an international audience.
Business
Apple design guru Jony Ive gets new role
Tim Higgins Jony Ive, Apple's top designer, will give up day-to-day managerial duties in what the company says is a promotion to the newly created position of chief design officer.
Business
Fire damages Apple's former sapphire-screen factory
Tim Higgins The unlucky streak continues at Apple's US factory.
'Uber for cleaners' TidyMe raises capital
Rose Powell Australia could be set for another online marketplace startup technology success story to sit alongside 99designs, Seek and Freelancer, with a service to link customers with cleaners online receiving financial backing.
Business
The hidden cost of administration
Drew Turney We all know the time administrative tasks take up is a necessary evil, but new research finds the problem is worse than we thought.
Tech VCs don't dare mention b word
Conor Dougherty The tech industry’s venture capitalists admit to a certain amount of "frothiness" in start-up investments, but they studiously avoid another word. Bubble.
Security
Flaw leaves 'wiped' Androids exposed
Hannah Francis Passwords, contacts, emails, media files and texts recoverable after a device is "wiped".
Security
AdultFriendFinder exposed by large security breach
Mike Snider One of the largest online dating sites, the 64 million-member AdultFriendFinder.com, is investigating a data breach.
Business
BlackBerry cuts jobs worldwide in smartphone consolidation
Gerrit De Vynck BlackBerry is cutting jobs at offices around the world as it brings together the different parts of its shrinking smartphone business.
Cost-saving data centre opened in Canberra
Ben Grubb The federal government has opened a new data centre it says will save taxpayers millions in operating costs and provide stability for numerous government departments.
Founder of Oculus hit with lawsuit
Dan Levine Founder of virtual reality glasses maker Oculus VR, acquired by Facebook for $US2 billion, accused of taking confidential information he learned whilst working with another company and passing it off as his own.
Cybersecurity
Mid-air 'plane hack' raises big ethical questions
Hannah Francis US hacker Chris Roberts insists he's one of the good kind, but things aren't always black and white.
Aussie medtech company raises $1.5 million
Beverley Head Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd has tipped $1.5 million into the coffers of the Melbourne-based health tech company with ambitions to be Australia's next ResMed or Cochlear.
Airlines sceptical planes can be 'hacked'
Georgina Mitchell Airlines are doubtful a US man was able to take control of a plane with his laptop.
'Grand Theft Uber': Man sues tech giant
Andrew Chung Man claims he invented the Uber concept and was left out of the company by the people he worked with.
Security
Hacker hijacks plane mid-air
Liam Tung Commercial airliner's course changed after hacker took control of onboard computer system, according to the FBI.
AI
IBM's Watson aims to be jack of all trades
Watson already has won a major TV game show, is looking for a cure for cancer and has ambitious gastronomy ambitions including devising a recipe for chocolate-beef burritos. Now it's a business consultant.
