New Zealand’s largest telco Spark has set out on a major programme to upgrade its broadband networks across the country to move as "many as possible" of its customers off old copper networks and onto newer technologies – fibre and wireless broadband. Hello, anyone at NBN Co listening?

Optus has opened a $10 million Advanced Security Operations Centre (ASOC) in Sydney, adding to parent company SingTel’s worldwide network of ASOC’s.

Australian shoppers aged between 25 and 34 are leading the world in embracing online shopping, with 96% of these so-called millennials driving the online shopping boom, although older generation Aussies are not far behind their younger counterparts.

The nature of cyber-attacks has changed – today there are multiple waves of multi-faceted attacks including highly socially engineered phishing attacks. And by the law of averages, some get through. Ray speaks with Dr Hugh Thompson, CTO of Symantec.

Global IT services giant Tata is to collaborate with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on research projects across several sectors of the ICT industry.

Vodafone has boosted its $5 a day roaming network offer with the addition of six new destinations.

The enterprise arm of the former Hewlett Packard is continuing to cut staff as it moves towards a merger of its software assets with British mainframe group Micro Focus announced in September.

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