ACS CEO Week in Review: 26 Oct 2012
Reports out this week
- Peoplebank IT&T Salary Indexes
- DEEWR Vacancy Report October 2012
- Ernst & Young ‘University of the Future’ Report
ACS in the news
- YARN: Call to action – put your best foot forward
- Brave new frontier for females in IT
- Plumbing the depths of Australia’s online job market
- Mature professions give something back
ICT in the Media:
- Digital Economy: Facebook stocks surge as the social network reports strong revenue and growth in mobile, Australia post plans $2 bil investment focusing on opportunities presented by the digital economy Patents and Copyright: Microsoft to sue Google in German patent row, Samsung says ITU ruling in favour of Apple would mean less choice, higher prices
- Security: Defence Minister Steven Smith reveals 52% increase in cyber attacks, Huawei call for national cyber security centre
- ICT jobs market and skills: Still over 10,000 vacant ICT role Overall ICT jobs down on 2011 but still in DEEWR monthly tracker, big data to create 1.9M IT jobs in US by 2015, says Gartner
Digital Economy
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FACEBOOK shares surged overnight toward their biggest daily gain since the company's May 18 IPO, one day after the social network reported strong revenue and progress on making money from mobile ads.
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Australia Post’s is planning a $2billion investment in infrastructure, products and services focusing on the digital economy.
Skills & Training
- High-tech women continue to be short-changed in the salary stakes by as much as $13,000 compared with their male counterparts, according to a salary survey released by the Australian Computer Society
- WESTPAC Bank had the foresight six years ago to kick start a mentoring program which today is paying huge dividends in the form of homegrown mainframe experts. Recognising an impending skills shortage, the bank selected mentors to train and guide younger IT staffers who showed a penchant for the decades-old technology
Cyber Security
- Huawei have called for the creation of a national cyber security centre to independently evaluate all foreign-made technology products.
- Australia is facing increased attempts to infiltrate public and private computer networks, a conference has heard
- Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages, downloading and executing files, hijacking accounts, bypassing two-factor authentication security features enforced by some websites, and much more
Telecommunications
- IINET has moved aggressively to white-ant Telstra's acquisition of Adam Internet with a broadband sales campaign targeting South Australia consumers. In a bid to lure Adam's subscribers, which Telstra acquired today for an estimated $60 million.
Government announcements
- Primary school students have their say at the 2012 Cybersafety Summit. The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, and the Chair of the Joint Select Committee on Cybersafety, Senator Catryna Bilyk, have congratulated the students who participated in today's Cybersafety Summit in Melbourne.
- Australian industry will benefit from funding worth $3.7 billion over the next four years demonstrating the Gillard Government's commitment to working with business to boost productivity and competitiveness.
Opposition announcements
- The Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook shows the Gillard Government will cut or delay $2.4 billion from education programmes said the Shadow Minister for Education, Christopher Pyne today.
- The Coalition congratulates Senator Conroy and the Labor Government on the remarkable progress being made in the rollout of construction maps for the NBN.