Large scale professional services offshorer Cognizant Technology Solutions has announced a 10.7% rise in revenue for the first quarter of the financial year to US$3.55 billion as its outsourcing practices come under increasing scrutiny in the US.

Internet Australia has taken up the “good debt bad debt” pre-Budget debate sparked by the Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison, with IA chair Anne Hurley calling on both the Government and the Opposition to ensure that funding going to the National Broadband Network is good debt.

Free catch-up digital television service Freeview Australia is set to launch a major upgrade of its Freeview Plus platform which it says will offer viewers a more simplified user experience and sophisticated look and feel.

Using your mobile phone as a real computer with a large screen and full size keyboard could define the new computing paradigm. Samsung’s DeX allows a Galaxy S8/S8+ (and presumably a Note 8) to support many Android apps on a 16:9 screen and use a keyboard and mouse – it does this very well.

A previously undiscovered hacking group has used well-worn electronic espionage techniques — some more than a decade old — to infect about 500 government agency computers so far over the past year.

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