| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.11.2024 | Calls mount for reform in Australia's ICT procurement policy | A new report has urged immediate reforms to Australia's Government ICT procurement policy to better support local industry and align with international practices.
The analysis, conducted by Insight Economics, highlights recent steps by the ... |
| 10.11.2024 | FREYR Battery's Bold Move: A New Dawn for U.S. Solar Manufacturing | In a world increasingly powered by renewable energy, FREYR Battery is making waves. The company has announced a transformative acquisition that could reshape the solar landscape in the United States. By acquiring Trina Solar’s U.S. manufact... |
| 08.11.2024 | ACS: 12 Steps to Address Australia’s Skills Shortage | As Australia faces severe ongoing challenges in meeting its IT skills and capabilities needs, the Australian Computer Society recently published its Digital Pulse 2024 report in collaboration with Deloitte. This report is a major research p... |
| 29.10.2024 | Victoria's tech workforce grows 9.75%, exceeding national rate | Victoria's technology workforce has seen a 9.75% increase in 2023, surpassing the national average growth rate of 9%, as detailed in the 2024 ACS Digital Pulse report.
The annual report, prepared by Deloitte Access Economics for the Austral... |
| 22.10.2024 | Australia's tech workforce surpasses one million in 2024 | The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has released the tenth edition of its Digital Pulse report, indicating Australia's technology workforce has surpassed one million workers in 2024, representing a 60% growth since 2014.
The report, which... |
| 15.10.2024 | The Talent Tug-of-War: Navigating Australia’s Workforce Challenges | Australia's job market is a battlefield. Employers are grappling with a severe talent shortage. The latest report from Jobs and Skills Australia lays bare the stark reality: 303 occupations are struggling to find workers. The top 20 list re... |
| 14.10.2024 | Baseline flexibility won’t futureproof tech businesses from fierce competition for talent | From Amazon to the NSW state government, many local and global organisations are introducing mandates for employees to return to the office. While these attention-grabbing headlines are resurfacing heated debates about whether employees sho... |
| 18.09.2024 | ACS announces sponsorship of ACIS2024 in Canberra this December | The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has announced its sponsorship of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS2024), which will be held in Canberra from 4 to 6 December. This marks the 35th year of the event, recognised as ... |
| 10.09.2024 | ACS & ISACA extend partnership to boost IT skills in Australia | ACS (the Australian Computer Society) and ISACA, the global association for IT audit, governance, risk, and cybersecurity professionals, have extended their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a concerted effort to address the global IT sk... |
| 03.09.2024 | Dr Vicki Gardiner takes COO role at Canberra Cyber Hub | Dr. Vicki Gardiner has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer of the Canberra Cyber Hub, effective today. Known for her significant contributions to STEM workforce development and leadership in promoting diversity, Dr. Gardiner's... |
| 03.09.2024 | Canva утверждает, что её новые ИИ-опции стоят трёхкратного повышения цены на подписку для некоторых пользователей... | Стоимость некоторых подписок Canva резко вырастет в следующем году после агрессивного развёртывания функций генеративного искусственного интеллекта. Компания-разработчик софта для дизайна планирует увеличить стоимость подписки Canva Teams б... |
| 12.08.2024 | Paul Fletcher points to women telco leaders when asked about gender disparity in tech | Source: TechLeaders article-article-body
Shadow Minister for Science, Arts, Government Services and the Digital Economy Paul Fletcher has highlighted the positions of two women technology leaders in response to a question on the closure of ... |
| 27.06.2024 | The real impact of AI on ransomware | Artificial intelligence is the biggest topic of 2024. While some are already tired of seeing AI constantly in the headlines, it will only become more prevalent. Keeping up with how it changes business practices is then critical. AI is unden... |
| 19.06.2024 | Josh Griggs appointed CEO of the Australian Computer Society | Josh Griggs has been appointed as the permanent Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), following a six-month tenure in an interim capacity. His appointment is set to take effect from 1 July. This decision co... |
| 20.03.2024 | Do you have 7,513 unread emails in your inbox? It’s time to declutter | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
How do you manage your emails? Are you an “inbox zero” kind of person, or do you just leave thousands of them unread?
Our new study, published today in the journal Information Research, suggests tha... |
| 19.03.2024 | IT Industry Consolidation in Australia an Opportunity for Skills Development | “Transact to transform” will be a key theme across Australia for the next year, according to PwC. CEOs consider technological change to be the single most significant source of change, and 59% of CEOs are planning to execute a deal within t... |
| 15.03.2024 | Sophos: Cyber Security Professional Burnout Is Widespread, Creating Risk for APAC Organisations | Many cybersecurity professionals with burnout in APAC have suffered in silence for years. However, a growing body of regional research, including a recent report from cybersecurity firm Sophos, is bringing attention to the extent, causes an... |
| 27.02.2024 | CSIRO Collaboration Aims to Boost Flagging AI Investment in Australia via Competition | The CSIRO’s National AI Centre, in collaboration with Google Cloud and co-working space Stone & Chalk, has launched a new AI competition in the hope of supporting Australian entrepreneurship around AI. Competitions like this are sorely ... |
| 21.12.2023 | Third-Party Supply Chain Risk a Challenge for Cyber Security Professionals in Australia | Third-party supply chain risk is a key concern from Australian cyber security professionals. With enterprises typically relying on an expanding network of interconnected systems — often suppliers of suppliers — it is becoming difficult to m... |
| 16.11.2023 | Automation Tech to Form Central Part of Effort in Australia to Operationalise AI in 2024 | Automation use cases like intelligent document processing and communications mining could help organisations fast-track artificial intelligence operationalisation in 2024, according to a report from UiPath, as businesses seek to combine AI ... |
| 03.10.2023 | (Не) безопасный дайджест: кража данных любителей пиццы, миллионный штраф и взлом через клиента | Пришло время традиционного ежемесячного обзора «классических» и нетривиальных ИБ-инцидентов, о которых писали в СМИ. В сентябрьской программе: утечка данных поставщиков Airbus, масштабный взлом платформы Freecycle и хакеры, шантажирующие Pi... |
| 27.07.2023 | Как технологии заменяли рабочие места и к чему это приводило | По некоторым расчетам к 2035 году 40-50% работников потеряют свои должности из-за технологического прогресса. Возможности технологий и искусственного интеллекта в частности действительно поражают — нейросети способны выполнять все больше сл... |
| 03.03.2023 | Network Data Layer: A New Way To Look At Data In Telecommunication Networks | Jan Häglund is the President and CEO of Enea, a specialist in software for telecommunications and cybersecurity. |
| 03.10.2022 | Bridging The Digital Divide And The Gender Gap | Carmen Ene is CEO at 3stepIT and BNP Paribas 3 Step IT, Europe's leading circular Technology Lifecycle Management providers. |
| 22.07.2022 | Hyper-collection: How Bunnings, eBay and Netflix are contributing to the mass surveillance of Australians | Source: Shutterstock.
You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that st... |
| 06.05.2022 | Is your bank balance safe? Hacker threats have banks shoring up their defence, but it might not be enough | Source: Pexels/Soumil Kumar
Hackers have been attacking “systemically important financial institutions” in Australia (banks, insurance companies, etc) in a sustained burst, revealing weaknesses that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) says ... |
| 22.10.2021 | The Tech Future Needs to Produce Knowledge Workers Today | Ernest Hamilton, Tech Times 22 October 2021, 03:10 pm
(Photo : Credit: August de Richelieu via Pexels)
Speculating about the future of technology is so much fun because this is a dynamic, fast-changing industry that creates modern marvels. ... |
| 21.10.2021 | Champions of Change teams with Telstra, Microsoft CEOs to boost female tech leaders | Dr Cathy Foley, Australia's Chief Scientist. Source: supplied.
Since 2010, the Champions of Change Coalition has been thinking about ways to achieve gender equality in the workplace and advance a more diverse group of women in leadership.
T... |
| 21.09.2021 | This Prosthetic Bionic Arm Can Help Amputees 'Feel' Touch, Movement: Here's How It Works | RJ Pierce, Tech Times 21 September 2021, 04:09 am
Prosthetic limbs have come a really long way from being peg legs, hooks, and whatnot. The most advanced ones right now are often imbued with advanced robotics, which offer far more function ... |
| 07.06.2021 | America's Fastest Growing Company Joined Australia in Alleviating the IT Talent Shortfall | HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, June 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- KMS Solutions has officially entered the Australian market after seeing more local enterprises reached out for its software engineering and digital team services.
To ease the IT talent... |
| 06.05.2021 | Media Release - ACS welcomes Digital Economy Strategy | 6 May 2021
ACS, the professional association for Australia's technology sector, today welcomes the Government's announcement today of $1.2 billion investment in the ICT industry through the Digital Economy Strategy.
Rupert Grayston, ACS Chi... |
| 04.02.2021 | The Role Of Bias In Artificial Intelligence | Steve is the Head of Data Science and AI at Australian Computer Society, a proactive social media contributor and LinkedIn influencer. |
| 08.10.2020 | Hacker-for-Hire Group Watches Targets for About a Year Using Fake Social Media Accounts, Websites Before Attack: BlackBerry | CJ Robles, Tech Times 08 October 2020, 05:10 am
Security firm BlackBerry exposed the hacker group's sophisticated operations using fake social media accounts and websites as well as mobile apps to collect personal information and spread And... |
| 15.09.2020 | Australian business leaders caught up in China’s mass surveillance: Here’s what it means | Source: Pexels/Soumil Kumar
By Bruce Baer Arnold, University of Canberra
National security is like sausage-making. We might enjoy the tasty product, but want to look away from the manufacturing.
Recent news that Chinese company Zhenhua Data... |
| 11.08.2020 | Australian Woman Jailed for Theft of More Than 100,000 XRP | An Australian woman has been sentenced to over two years in prison for a major theft of the XRP cryptocurrency in January 2018.
According to a report Tuesday by Australian news outlet Information Age, 25-year-old Kathryn Nguyen was sentence... |
| 11.06.2020 | HACKERS EXPOSED: Huge Spy-For-Hire Scheme Target Thousands of Organizations Including Politicians | Giuliano J., Tech Times 11 June 2020, 12:06 am
Hackers' large-scale spy-for-hire scheme was caught spying on thousands of individuals. According to ACS's latest report, an obscure Indian tech company has been exposed and traced to have been... |
| 17.03.2020 | [BEWARE] ACSC Advices the Public to Ignore the Suspicious Coronavirus-Related SMS Urging to Click Malicious Link | Christine Roger, Tech Times 17 March 2020, 12:03 pm
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) warned the public about the new SMS scam in Australia, urging citizens to click the link for Coronavirus testing locations. The new text messagi... |
| 20.01.2020 | Five security risks faced in the modern workplace - Empired | By Gavin van Niekerk
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| 16.10.2019 | Telstra targets tech skills shortage with new uni deal | Telstra has partnered with six educational institutes - five local and one in India - to jointly develop skills and capabilities needed to power Australia’s (and the telco’s) future workforce.
The partnership with the universities in Melbou... |
| 05.09.2019 | Migration review could widen tech visa job classes | The way Australia’s immigration authorities decide what tech jobs and skills the nation needs to import through permanent and temporary migration is set for a major shake-up, with large employers prevailing over IT industry groups in their ... |
| 02.05.2019 | Labor pledges $3m for national blockchain academy | The federal opposition has pledged $3 million to create Australia’s first ‘Blockchain Academy’ if elected later this month.
The academy, to be based in Perth, would be used to link corporations with startups, academia and students to explor... |
| 06.12.2018 | Calls for small business to adopt AI | ACS, the professional association for Australia’s ICT sector has launched Artificial Intelligence: A Starter Guide to the Future of Business, encouraging all Aussie businesses to embrace the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
The ACS laun... |
| 13.11.2018 | Startup employee wages ‘unsustainably’ high as government migration policies stymie tech talent | What a month for Australian business. According to findings from the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, the latest in a series of migration cuts — making scarce tech talent even harder to find— would deprive the... |
| 29.06.2018 | Australia's foreign IT worker numbers go missing | Official figures for the total number of IT workers imported into Australia each year have literally been lost in transit due to a technology upgrade at the nation’s border control posts.
The dataset, known as the “Net migration of ICT work... |
| 17.05.2018 | Does your business need to worry about the EU’s GDPR laws? | Data collection and analysis is now vital to the success of many Australian businesses. Along with the benefits that come from unlocking the data available through the various digital portals used by businesses to collect customer informati... |
| 24.10.2017 | Code Like a Girl launches internship program to give workers a foot in the door at Aussie tech companies | Code Like a Girl co-founder Vanessa Doake. Source: Supplied.
Melbourne-based social enterprise Code Like a Girl has launched an internship program designed to help prospective workers get their foot in the door of Australian tech companies,... |
| 06.09.2017 | Aussie cyber security pros can now get certified | Cyber security professionals in Australia can now be officially certified through two new specialist accreditations provided by the Australian Computer Society (ACS).
The ACS - a professional association serving the Australian IT industry -... |
| 06.06.2017 | Australia is falling behind on digital competitiveness and major change is needed | By Ron Johnston, University of Sydney
Australia ranks 15 out of 63 nations when it comes to digital competitiveness, according to a new report from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD). While we’re in the top 20, the... |
| 23.05.2017 | How small businesses can protect against data breaches from within | By Craig Horne, University of Melbourne
As we become more connected and companies hold more data, breaches are increasing, with more than 4,000 reported in 2016 alone. A statistical analysis of breaches in the United States found that 85% w... |
| 01.02.2017 | C’mon girls, let’s program a better tech industry | Twitter is the latest tech company to reveal figures showing women are still underrepresented in the information and communication technology (ICT) workforce.
Men make up 70% of the overall staff and women just 30%, according to a blog post... |
| 19.09.2016 | Salesforce brings Einstein to enterprise AI race | Salesforce is formally entering the enterprise artificial intelligence fray, creating a new research group and adding AI services to its suite of cloud products under the brand ‘Einstein’.
A fortnight out from the start of its annual Dreamf... |
| 13.07.2016 | Incoming Turnbull Govt must act on digital policy, says industry body | As Australia ushers in the new federal government headed by Malcolm Turnbull, there have been industry calls for keeping digital policy and innovation at the forefront of the Coalition's mind. The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has led t... |
| 10.05.2016 | Increase in tech jobs will see greater skills shift in workforce | While digital skills are becoming increasingly important, employees must not forget the importance of multi-disciplinary skills if they want to find a job in tech, according to a new report from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and Del... |
| 09.10.2015 | A code of ethics in IT: just lip service or something with bite? | The emissions scandal that has rocked the car maker Volkswagen has again raised the issue of ethical standards in the tech industry.
Reports so far say the company is pointing finger at the “unlawful behaviour of engineers and technicians i... |
| 15.09.2015 | Tech sector cheers on new PM Malcolm Turnbull | The Australian startup community has welcomed new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s immediate focus on new technologies and “disruption” in his first speech on Monday night.
The former communications minister resigned from cabinet and calle... |
| 22.01.2015 | Startups looking for more support from both LNP and Labor in QLD election | More than 80% of Queensland startups think the Newman government is not doing enough to support the state’s startup ecosystem. However, only 19% believe Labor’s policy on startups is up to scratch, according to research conducted by River C... |
| 12.11.2014 | ACS wants to put the digital economy at the heart of the Victorian elections | With the Victorian election just around the corner, the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on the major political parties to recognise the digital economy as the key driver of economic growth in the state.
ACS Victoria chairman Mi... |
| 09.10.2014 | Australian cloud company reaches for the stars in a bid to raise $5 million | OrionVM, an Australian wholesale cloud infrastructure-as-a-service startup is set to embark on a Series A funding round and is looking to raise upwards of $5 million.
The company was founded in 2010 in dorm room of Sheng Yeo co-founders Ale... |
| 25.09.2014 | Three ways to improve your pitch to investors | A common problem among startups when pitching is a poor understanding of their business model, according to Will Deane, managing director of Exto Partners.
Exto Partners is a diversified private investment firm based in Sydney and Deane see... |
| 29.07.2014 | C’mon girls, let’s program a better tech industry | Twitter is the latest tech company to reveal figures showing women are still underrepresented in the information and communication technology (ICT) workforce.
Men make up 70% of the overall staff and women just 30%, according to a blog post... |
| 28.07.2014 | Tracking your digital fingerprint online raises privacy issues | Just how much information we give away about ourselves as we browse the web has been raised again by a tracking device used in thousands of websites.
Researchers at Belgium’s University of Leuven have revealed the widespread use of a techni... |
| 13.02.2014 | ACS WA Branch Forum Event. Website Accessibility | Website Accessibility: Maximizing your opportunities or crippling your potential
Did you know that one in five Australians has a disability affecting their education, transportation or employment? Few businesses can afford to lose up to 20%... |
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| 24.09.2010 | ICT exports tumble, but R&D up 13% | Exports in the technology industry fell by $551 million to $4.5 billion during 2009, but overall research and development spending by Australian companies increased, new figures from the ABS and Australian Computer Society reveal.
Innovatio... |
| - | James Cook University Online extends Graduate Diploma of Data Science to cover IoT | Availability of Australian Internet of Things (IoT) courses has increased with the recent launch of the James Cook University Online Graduate Diploma of Data Science in Internet of Things.
The course extends the university’s Graduate Diplom... |
| - | Federal and Qld governments put $940m into quantum computer | The federal government has joined with Queensland to invest $940 million into a quantum computer being built by a US-based startup.
In return, the startup, PsiQuantum, will set up regional headquarters in Australia and host its first comput... |
| - | Netflix’s Password Crackdown Boosts US Audience, But Australians Are Cancelling | Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing that kicked off in May has led to a boom in subscribers in the US – but in Australia, users have left the platform in droves.
While Netflix added well over two and a half million US subscribers to the... |
