While Australians grumble at the slow progress of the NBN rollout, the New Zealand Government is looking to extend the country’s broadband network to rural areas where blackspots impede mobile phone and broadband coverage.

Australian accounting software provider MYOB appears to have a habit of pushing upgrades on its customers and giving them no way out. With MYOB it appears to be a case of upgrade your systems when we tell you to or suffer the consequences.

Google's parent company Alphabet has scaled back its Google Fibre project, with about 9% of the staff of the Access unit that includes the Fibre project to lose their jobs.

Microsoft has unveiled its next phase for its Surface family of devices – the Surface Studio, Surface Dial, and Surface Book with Performance base.

A former Romanian minister and three others, who were jailed in March for embezzling the discount offered by Microsoft for software provided to schools, have had their appeals dismissed and their fines and jail terms increased.

If you're only looking for malware, how will you spot an attack that doesn't use it? Yes there are such things as malware-free attacks.

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