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Infratech sees solar raft of benefits
Aussie start-up helps rural communities get off the grid using floating solar rafts that sit atop water reservoirs.
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Aussie start-up Employme wants to kill the resume as we know it
Australian start-up Employme is offering the selfie generation a chance to spruik themselves the way they know best
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Warning over push to make web traffic 'neutral'
US economist warns Australians could suffer if regulators introduce rules to enforce an unbiased internet.
Top stories
Sex sites off limits, public service love rats warned
Noel Towell Marriage vows are one thing, but the public service Code of Conduct, that's serious.
Undersea cable would connect Sunshine Coast directly to internet
Tony Moore A plan to make the Sunshine Coast a vital internet gateway is luring Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to the area on Friday to view the proposal in person.
Human Services' computers keep disabled out of work
Noel Towell Disabled workers are caught in bureaucratic limbo by problematic computer systems.
Business
Infratech sees solar raft of benefits
Claire Connelly An Australian start-up is helping rural communities get off the grid using floating solar rafts in that sit atop water reservoirs.
iiNet CEO David Buckingham leaves company
Ben Grubb CEO of Perth-based internet service provider iiNet, David Buckingham, has left the company, according to multiple sources.
Uber hires car hacking engineers
MIKE ISAAC and NICOLE PERLROTH One remote hacking of an Uber vehicle could spell disaster for the ride-hailing company.
The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff
Hannah Francis In 34 days and counting down, Australia is set to blast a satellite weighing as much as an elephant one-tenth of the way to the moon.
Kaspersky threatened to 'rub out' rival
Joseph Menn, Gerry Shih and Alina Selyukh Eugene Kaspersky told some of his lieutenants that they should attack rival anti-virus software maker AVG, email shows.
Apple boss exposed by 5am email
Brian X Chen He was trying to calm nerves over 'China fears'. Instead Tim Cook opened a can of worms.
Myki scam costs Victoria $4.2 million
Fraudsters have used stolen credit card details to top up myki travel passes before selling them on the black market in a scam that has cost Public Transport Victoria (PTV) $4.2 million.
Warning over push to make web traffic 'neutral'
Andrew Colley Australian consumers could suffer if regulators introduce rules to force carriers to provide access to internet content on an unbiased basis, a prominent US economist has warned.
Business
Aussie start-up Employme wants to kill the resume as we know it
Beverley Head Australian start-up Employme is offering the selfie generation a chance to spruik themselves to potential employers in the way they know best
Apps
Facebook dodged a bullet in not aquiring Snapchat
Brian Fung Evan Spiegel could have walked away with $3 billion for his start-up in 2013, instead he turned Facebook down and is now managing a struggling business hemorrhaging money.
Unicorns
Leaked presentation reveal Uber's plans for stellar growth
Shu Zhang and Gerry Shih Uber Technologies Inc's global bookings are projected to rise nearly threefold to $US10.84 billion this year and reach $US26.12 billion the next.
In Google limelight, XYZ domain owner rules out sale
Noor Zainab Hussain ICANN's youngest registry operator, who owns the rights to the .xyz top level domain, has seen a huge uptick in business following Google's Alphabet announcement.
Halton smashed AFP's Israeli dreams
Noel Towell Police walk away from deal with contractor, conceding numerous issues have put project beyond rescue.
Business
Memo to Australia Post: Sendle has arrived
Hannah Francis From aspiring spaceship builder to CSIRO bigwig, James Chin Moody has taken an unlikely route to creating a parcel delivery start-up.
Bezos denies Amazon is a soulless, dystopian workplace
Jodi Kantor, David Streitfeld Amazon boss responds to criticism of the online retailer's workplace culture.
Big flaw kept secret for two years
Olivia Solon Thousands of cars have spent years at risk of car-hacking, according to research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts.
Security
Kaspersky faked malware to harm rivals, ex-employees claim
Joseph Menn Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious, according to two former employees.
Office culture
Inside Amazon's brutal corporate culture
JODI KANTOR and DAVID STREITFELD The ever-expanding online retailer practises a uncompromising form of corporate Darwinism where only the tough survive.
