Joseph Brookes

Australia’s privacy watchdog, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, has released a draft document outlining the privacy guidelines for the upcoming Consumer Data Right (CDR). Sign up for Which-50’s Irregular Insights newsletter The guidelines cover consent, notifications, data use, data quality, and security, among other privacy issues raised by

Netflix fell 300,000 subscriptions short of its forecast in the US market and 200,000 short in global additions in the last quarter, missing growth targets for the second quarter in a row, according to Q3 results released overnight. The company has downgraded its forecast for total subscriber adds in 2019

Advertisers can now target realestate.com.au visitors down to their potential new suburb and property type after REA Group re-engineered its adserver. SAS, the adserver provider, has also upgraded the publisher’s latency giving advertisers access to live reporting of campaigns. Sign up to Which-50’s Digital Marketing Newsletter REA Group’s executive manager,

Open source software company Red Hat and long running analytics firm SAS have extended their partnership to create “best-in-class hybrid cloud analytics”. Today SAS announced it will deliver its analytics tools on Red Hat OpenShift, the company’s enterprise Kubernetes platform. Sign up for Which-50’s Irregular Insights newsletter Earlier this year

Optus is developing an AI application to automatically transcribe and analyse customers’ calls. The capability was debuted in America earlier this year as a live translation service but is currently being piloted as a tool to assist contact centre agents. “What that technology gives us is an ability to [do]

Needing to deliver a brand new IT project – Australia’s New Payments Platform (NPP) – within a tight timeframe, Heritage Bank turned outward for help. But rather than ask a consultancy or look for off the shelf products, the bank asked an open source software company for help. Australia’s largest

Microsoft Australia’s technology chief, Lee Hickin, today declared the company’s commitment to open source software while speaking at an event hosted by one time adversary and open source giant, Red Hat. Microsoft has evolved into an open source company as it transformed, Hickin said, and around half of the services

Australian IBM cybersecurity engineers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to analyse network connections and employee communications at an enterprise scale. The model detects changes in users’ behaviour and can automatically triggers investigations even if the changes occur across multiple platforms. The method addresses one of cybersecurity’s biggest challenges,

Facebook’s biggest partners for its upcoming Libra payments network have backed out of the project less than four months after it was announced. Mastercard, Visa, and eBay said Friday they are dropping out of the partner group working on Libra, joining Paypal which backed out a week earlier. Sign up

This year, the world’s four most valuable companies — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Alphabet — all signalled a new or renewed push into gaming. The tech giants all want a bigger share of what market researcher NewZoo says is a $US152 billion gaming market, currently growing at 9.6 per cent