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The Commonwealth Bank's CommBank Cyber Community Awards are intended to recognise people who work hard to make the community more secure.

Rules to better protect Australians against the bill shock that can come from high international mobile roaming charges, have been emhanced by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).

New Zealand’s competition enforcement agency, The Commerce Commission, has started High Court action seeking a declaration that mobile trader Home Direct consumer contracts contained unfair terms relating to its voucher entitlement scheme.

If you're looking for a new reason to put a smile on your dial, NBN Co is offering to blast your face into space. Well, not your actual face, just a photo of it.

Online retailer Kogan is offering a $1 million cash prize in a free-to-enter Melbourne Cup tipping competition.

Westpac has joined forces with venture technology accelerator BlueChilli in announcing the Westpac Innovation Challenge, a $40,000 competition that will see startups disrupt the way the bank has normally done business.

Finalists for the Apps for All Challenge, a competition run by the Australian Humans Rights Commission in conjunction with Australia's telco consumer lobby organisation ACCAN were announced today. 

Aussie kids are set to learn more about ICT careers and what they can offer, thanks to more co-operation between government program Digital Careers and multinational enterprise firm SAP which today announced further support of the annual Young ICT Explorers competition.

Team GearBox has won the Sydney BattleHack hackathon this weekend, and will go on to represent Australia in the BattleHack World Finals in San Jose in November.

The hunt for Australia's best developers is on, with global payments providers PayPal and Braintree hosting a 24-hour hackathon in Sydney on 26 and 27 July 26 - this weekend.

Australian developer Jared Homes has won Microsoft's Imagin8 Mission competition with his Kids Story Builder app for Nokia's Windows 8 smartphones.

Ecommerce poster boy Ruslan Kogan's company is putting more than $1 million on the line in a World Cup tipping competition open to Australian, New Zealand and England residents.

Virgin Mobile Australia today announced the launch of ‘Game of Phones’, a location-based mobile game in which players will hit the streets of Australia to try and claim up $200,000 worth of prizes.

Australia is on the verge of an 'app age', with a pocket smoke alarm and a mobile telehealth app just some of the ideas awarded by the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation today.

An Australian startup is about to win an opportunity to find a US investor.

Australian startup teams of no more than 10 people can enter Rackspace's Small Teams Big Impact competition.

Apple's App Store is heading towards another major milestone: 50 billion downloads. In keeping with tradition, Apple is offering a US$10,000 gift card in a related promotion.

A $50,000 CSIRO and industry-sponsored competition is aiming to foster some killer apps for the NBN.

Samsung is giving its fans the chance to make Sydney's iconic Opera House their own personal canvas, with a new competition coming next week.

A team of students from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies and Faculty of Science has won the South Pacific Regional Collegiate Programming Contest.