Although Ruslan Kogan has taken his surname and turned it into a brand name, there’s clearly plenty o’ cash to be made from selling existing top brands at competitively low prices, with Kogan promising “up to 46% off” retail pricing on brands like Apple, HP and Dr Dre.

If it looks too good to be true, it’s probably a caveat emptor situation, with various penny auction site users saying their wallets have ended up caveat empty.

The ACMA has told Vodafone that it must comply with the Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code (TCP Code, or face a possible court action that could result in a $250,000 fine.

Worldwide service revenues generated by LTE mobile networks are forecast to grow rapidly once networks are launched, exceeding $265 billion by 2016, and while the total number of LTE consumer subscribers will be higher than enterprise in five years time, consumers will in fact only account for under half of total revenues.

Many of Australia’s CIOs are concerned that further consumerisation of IT will lead to greatly increased business risks and that the trend to consumerisation is already driving unrealistic expectations around the role of IT in enterprises.

Four times more consumers consider mobile payments safer than credit cards, and according to a survey in the US, the concern about credit card security has cost online merchants more than $100 billion in annual lost revenue.

It’s that time of the year when everyone has a prediction for the year ahead, and in one prediction that just landed on iTWire’s newsdesk, there’s a number of dire predictions about security, with the warning that organised criminals will leverage advanced malware techniques in targeted attacks against businesses and that a major cloud provider will suffer a significant security breach.

Telsyte and the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) have partnered to produce the second edition of Digital Nation, a compendium of research and commentary on the digital lifestyle of Australian consumers.

This week and in the lead up to Christmas, Australians are expected to go on an online shopping spree in a big way, with predictions that a piece of women’s clothing will be sold every 6 seconds, a piece of fashion jewellery sold every 12 seconds, a pair of women’s shoes every 40 seconds and a watch will be sold every 46 seconds, helping to take Australia’s online commerce revenues to $30 billion by the end of the year.

Uptake by enterprises of LTE mobile broadband technology is expected to increase rapidly in the next five years, but with consumers signing up in large numbers during 2013, and overtaking enterprise subscribers by 2015.