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Finding a pathway to net zero carbon in our cities
City emissions are made up of buildings - homes and businesses, including factories and office buildings - and transport systems.
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- Business IT
‘Terrible mistake’ could send execs to jail over vaccine certificates
Storing employees’ COVID-19 vaccination certificates is a “world of data security pain”, experts warn, which could send unsuspecting business owners or execs to jail.
- John Davidson
This Month
- Opinion
- Cyber security
Why companies will ignore the government and pay hackers’ ransoms
Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews’ insistence that the government does not condone paying hackers to unlock systems ignores the reality of businesses trying to survive.
- Michelle Price and Marcus Thompson
New Sydney factory to build malware-free computers
The first component-level computer manufacturing facility on Australian soil is set to commence building “clean” secure data-centre computers early next year in Sydney.
- Tom Burton
CBA turns to AI to root out abusive payments
Commonwealth Bank will use the power of artificial intelligence to root out people using the description field on electronic payments to send abusive messages.
- Paul Smith
AWS wins coveted approval to host federal government data
US tech giant Amazon Web Services will host sensitive government data under a new toughened cloud security regime.
- Tom Burton
- Opinion
- Cloud
Green credentials will help companies win the cloud talent war
Tech leaders recruiting for critical and scarce cloud skills who can demonstrate its contribution to the decarbonisation of the corporate sector will lure the best staff.
- Matthew Coates
September
- Exclusive
- Business IT
Telstra’s big tech tests key for future growth plans
The telco’s tech chief has detailed the huge challenges in delivering the changes needed to underpin the company’s plans to transform over the next four years.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Cloud
Lendlease, Google in for global cloud, software push
Lendlease and Google will co-develop software to digitise the construction sector after the firm made Google Cloud the foundation of its own tech transformation.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Cloud
How an IT snag threatened a $1.7b paper merger
The alarming experience of Opal Group is an example of difficulties merged entities face when trying to integrate and harmonise technical applications in the new organisation.
- Lucas Baird
August
Dell sees boom despite pandemic, chip shortage
Strong consumer demand for PCs and notebooks continues to fuel growth for Dell Technologies.
- Kara Carlson and Austin American-Statesman
- Opinion
- Mergers & acquisitions
Why Ahmed Fahour paid a king’s ransom for an unremarkable start-up
Latitude Financial Services paid $200 million for a tiny start-up called Symple, deterred neither by its dubious spelling nor its mere $5 million in revenue.
- Adir Shiffman
- Exclusive
- Cloud
Tech giants take the cream as Aussie cloud boom passes $1.3b
Australian spending on the infrastructure behind cloud computing is tipped to grow 28 per cent this year, as new figures show Google chasing Amazon and Microsoft to support digital transformations.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Cyber security
EY tries ‘grow-your-own’ cyber specialists as salaries surge
Consulting giant responds to surging demand for cyber security specialists by reskilling professionals and offering sky-high salaries of up to $360,000 a year.
- Edmund Tadros
July
Uber, global cloud services caught by Australian privacy laws
Global firms offering services through offshore tech platforms are caught by local rules, even if they have no physical presence here, says a new ruling.
- Tom Burton
COVIDSafe app being redesigned for delta variant
The design of the COVIDSafe app is being reconsidered as a new study shows the delta virus has a viral load up to 1260 times greater than the original virus.
- Tom Burton
- Exclusive
- Business IT
‘Unrelated events’: Behind the scenes of CBA’s tech outage nightmares
CBA customers have suffered three damaging outages of payments, apps and online banking in quick succession. Now one of its top executives reveals what was going on.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Software
Slack CEO says office life can never go back to normal
Stewart Butterfield says digital headquarters are now more important than physical ones, and people can’t and won’t go back to pre-pandemic work life.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Software
Young Rich Lister makes $200m bet on tech for airports
Aaron Hornlimann’s Elenium Automation will fund a program designed to help install post-pandemic technology such as touchless check-ins and biometrics.
- Jessica Sier
June
Skills crisis pushes up tech wages by a third
Workers with abilities in security, data and the cloud are 30 per cent more expensive now than they were a year ago.
- John Davidson
