Thursday, June 4, 2015

High-tech scene comes of age and brings expats home

5 June 2015
The Sydney Morning Herald
High-tech scene comes of age and brings expats home

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?

Merger: CSIRO chief executive Dr Larry Marshall said even more people would lose their jobs if the merger did not go ahead.
CSIRO and NICTA merger could cost 200 jobs

A merger of the CSIRO and NICTA may result in as many as 200 additional job losses as the departments move closer to signing a formal agreement.

IT worker Matthew Graham received nearly $300 in parking fines while using Parkmobile
The app that cost ACT budget $300,000 in lost revenue

Tuesday's ACT budget confirmed hikes to parking rates and new paid parking sites across Canberra, but it also revealed just how much problems with a smartphone based payment system cost the government. 

Hacking.
Rent-a-hacker site leaks Australian buyers' names and addresses

The cat's out of the bag for about 60 Australians who thought they could anonymously rent a hacker without being caught.

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CITEC will remain in Queensland Government hands.
Queensland Government shelves IT outsourcing

The Palaszczuk government has continued its push to de-Newmanise Queensland by scrapping plans to outsource government IT services.

The Apple logo is seen at the flagship Apple retail store in San Francisco, California April 27, 2015. Apple shares were up 1.1 percent at $13.59 ahead of its results, due after the close. Analysts expect Apple's quarterly revenue to rise 23 percent to $56.07 billion.  REUTERS/Robert Galbraith
Fire damages Apple's former sapphire-screen factory

The unlucky streak continues at Apple's US factory.

 

Not so flash: A factory reset on some half a billion Android devices may not delete sensitive data. Flaw leaves data on 'wiped' Android phones exposed

Passwords, contacts, emails, media files and texts recoverable after a device is "wiped".

Stacey Jacobs, centre, with her team at TidyMe. 'Uber for cleaners' raises $750,000

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.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the new data centre would save money and energy. Cost-saving data centre opened in Canberra

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.

Twitter's booth up close. Twitter makes an odd appearance at CES Asia in China

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.


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