ACS Week in Review: 23 Nov 2012
Reports out this week
ACS in the media
- ARN: Frightening statistics call urgent action to have more women in IT: VMware
- The Age: Schools urged to get with the program
ICT news summary
- Digital Economy: ClickFrenzy website fails under huge volume of traffic, HP takes $US5bn charge related to Autonomy buy
- Patents and Copyright: US trade commission will review Apple, Samsung patent decision
- ICT jobs market and skills: Frightening statistics call urgent action to have more women in IT: VMware
- Telecommunications: Wireless spectrum the $3 billion commodity you’ll never see
Digital Economy
- Website woes for Click Frenzy: sale was undone when the website went down, unable to handle demand
- Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, seizes control of critical 4G spectrum auctions, amid concerns the withdrawal of struggling mobile carrier Vodafone could threaten a $3 billion budget windfall
- Business software provider, Salesforce.com, beats Wall Street expectations by posting quarterly revenue figure of $US788 million
- The Government's technology Chief, Ann Steward, announces her retirement after more than 30 years in Government service
Skills & Training
- A recent panel on Women in IT hosted by VMWare calls for urgent action to address the gender disparity in Australia's IT workforce
- Job advertisements on the internet rose by 2.5 per cent in October, federal government figures show
Cyber Security
- A US federal jury convicts a man of illegally gaining access to AT&T's servers and stealing more than 120,000 email addresses of iPad users including New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and film mogul Harvey Weinstein
- Malta based security start-up firm, ReVuln, claims to be sitting on a stockpile of vulnerabilities in industrial control software, but prefers to sell the information to governments and other paying customers instead of disclosing it to the affected software vendors
Telecommunications
- You can’t see, taste or touch the commodity known as wireless spectrum, but it fills the air around you and is worth billions of dollars to the federal Government
- The US International Trade Commission will review a judge's decision which found that Apple did not violate patents owned by Samsung Electronics in making the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad
- Cyberspace exposure opens a whole can of worms
Government Announcements
- Communications Minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, calls on the ABC to reconsider the decision to close its production facilities in Tasmania
- Industry groups, tertiary educators and world-leading technology companies are working with the Gillard Government to ensure the Australian workforce has the ICT skills needed now and in the future
- Business owners will now be able to create new business, marketing and emergency plans using a suite of free iPad apps developed by the Australian Government