Allie Coyne

Allie Coyne is a Sydney-based journalist and the editor of iTnews.

Coyne started on iTnews in 2013 after almost two years running the website of technology channel publication CRN.

Coyne won best new journalist in the 2013 Microsoft IT Journalism Awards, and was named best business technology journalist at the same awards in 2015, again in 2016, and won best security journalist in 2018. She left iTnews in 2018.

Recent articles by Allie Coyne

Time running out to get your IT project recognised

Time running out to get your IT project recognised

Is your client Australia's next CIO of the year?
Allie Coyne Nov 4 2016, 9:34AM Strategy
IT contractor behind Australia's biggest data breach

IT contractor behind Australia's biggest data breach

Human error exposed data on 550,000 Red Cross donors.
Allie Coyne Oct 31 2016, 6:52AM Security
Leaked medical data exposes 1.3 million records

Leaked medical data exposes 1.3 million records

Could be Australia's biggest data breach.
Allie Coyne Oct 28 2016, 12:49PM Security
Optus beats Allphones in legal battle over fees

Optus beats Allphones in legal battle over fees

Telco partners meet in court over commissions.
Allie Coyne Oct 24 2016, 7:04AM Telco
NBN ditches $800 million Optus HFC network

NBN ditches $800 million Optus HFC network

Connecting 700,000 homes with FTTdp instead.
Allie Coyne Sep 29 2016, 11:35AM Networking
NBN hits million-user milestone

NBN hits million-user milestone

Network builder more than doubles revenue.
Allie Coyne Aug 16 2016, 1:17PM Telco
Telstra to cut 200 more jobs

Telstra to cut 200 more jobs

Finance jobs go offshore.
Allie Coyne Aug 9 2016, 12:48PM Training & Development
Aussie IT grads losing jobs to skilled migrants

Aussie IT grads losing jobs to skilled migrants

A third of graduates struggling for work.
Allie Coyne Aug 8 2016, 4:58PM Training & Development
Telstra wholesaler ordered to compensate customers for data breach

Telstra wholesaler ordered to compensate customers for data breach

Privacy Commissioner busts TeleChoice.
Allie Coyne Jul 4 2016, 10:00AM Telco
Defence appoints itself as systems integrator for $500m desktop project

Defence appoints itself as systems integrator for $500m desktop project

Ditches plans to get external integrator.
Allie Coyne Jun 27 2016, 10:48AM Hardware
Brocade and Ruckus chiefs exit

Brocade and Ruckus chiefs exit

Local clean-out before integration?
Allie Coyne Jun 22 2016, 7:00AM Networking
NABERS data centre assessor in administration owing $1.8m

NABERS data centre assessor in administration owing $1.8m

Green Global Solutions' expansion didn't pay off.
Allie Coyne Jun 17 2016, 7:00AM Data centre
CSC staff to assist ABS in $250m overhaul

CSC staff to assist ABS in $250m overhaul

Filling skills shortages at stats agency.
Allie Coyne Jun 6 2016, 10:08AM Services
US nuclear weapons system uses 8-inch floppy disks

US nuclear weapons system uses 8-inch floppy disks

While another public department uses Windows 3.1.
Allie Coyne May 26 2016, 1:30PM Hardware
Police raid Labor over NBN

Police raid Labor over NBN

Ministers and staffers searched.
Allie Coyne May 20 2016, 7:43AM Telco
Telstra suffers another outage as $50m poured in for fix

Telstra suffers another outage as $50m poured in for fix

Internet, mobile complaints.
Allie Coyne May 3 2016, 7:11AM Collaboration
IBM's Australian profits down but sales stable at $3.5 billion

IBM's Australian profits down but sales stable at $3.5 billion

Big Blue's local performance revealed.
Allie Coyne Apr 29 2016, 3:57PM Software
Hewlett-Packard Australia cops $229 million loss

Hewlett-Packard Australia cops $229 million loss

Four consecutive years in the red.
Allie Coyne Apr 1 2016, 3:10PM Hardware
TPG nearing 1000 buildings in metro fibre race

TPG nearing 1000 buildings in metro fibre race

NBN playing catch-up.
Allie Coyne Feb 17 2016, 7:00AM Collaboration
AWS starts new availability zone in Sydney

AWS starts new availability zone in Sydney

Arrival of its own data centres in harbour city?
Allie Coyne Feb 15 2016, 11:00AM Cloud

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