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Optus has finally released voice and SMS stats for Christmas to Boxing Day 2014, rising from 2013 by 3%, voice calls by 5% and a huge rise in data.

As happens every year, Telstra predicts festive mobile traffic on its network will go off the charts, with data expected to be 30% higher than last Christmas, among other predictions.

We spoke to WatchGuard’s A/NZ Country Manager David Higgins about the Australia network security landscape, about the security predictions to watch and to not worry about in 2015, the Crytolocker ransomware and plenty more!

What will 2014 bring us? More of the same, but just more of it.

What will 2014 bring us? More of the same, but just more of it.

By 2018, 3D printing will result in the loss of at least US$100 billion per year in intellectual property globally, according to forecasts.

Analysts and vendors and others love to make “Top Ten” predictions for the coming year. Telstra’s are important, because they give us a glimpse of how Australia’s biggest technology company sees the year ahead – and what products it might be releasing

One of my favourite sayings comes from the late American futurist Roy Amara: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

Cloud computing becoming mainstream; mobile computing boosted by cloud services; and social networking - also a cloud based service - are tipped to drive, rather than support changes in business processes in Australia in 2012.

Quest Software Inc. shares ten predictions for technology trends and practices in 2012 based on its latest The Experts Conference (TEC) Survey.

According to a new report from Forrester Research, tablet computers will account for nearly a quarter of the computers sold in the U.S. by 2015.