The federal government has released a series of guides that it hopes will inspire small businesses adopt and use cloud computing services. [ + ]

Enterprise IT must embrace the mobile-first workplace or risk sliding into obsolescence, writes Ovum's Richard Absalom. [ + ]

Telstra has unveiled a $100m plan to build one of the world's largest Wi-Fi networks, primarily using participating customers' own connections. [ + ]

Human augmentation may seem to some like science fiction, but it's coming to the enterprise, and you need to start preparing for its eventual arrival. [ + ]

The Victorian Coalition government has released its ICT strategy for the next two years, which focuses on cloud, mobility and community access. [ + ]

The Coalition's Budget includes a number of planned cuts that could shake the ICT sector, including the elimination of grant programs, a lower R&D tax offset and a phase-out of government funding for NICTA. [ + ]

Australia ranked sixth in the world for users who clicked suspicious links during Q1, and fifth among countries hosting malicious URLs, according to Trend Micro. [ + ]

NBN Co has announced enhancements to the NBN aimed at allowing mid-sized businesses to take advantage of high-bandwidth applications such as VPNs and HD videoconferencing. [ + ]

Nearly 60% of Australian IT decision-makers expect to increase their data centre budgets by 5-10% in the next 12 months, with big data investments and virtualisation driving data centre growth. [ + ]

The Department of Finance will soon tender for a project to build GovCMS, a centralised system for managing government websites, and has proposed to mandate the use of Drupal and the public cloud. [ + ]

In its annual global survey of CIOs, Gartner Executive Programs found Australian IT leaders face significant challenges compared to their global counterparts. [ + ]

Organisations are increasingly hungry for their customers' personal data. However, the need to keep this data private raises a host of limitations and legal considerations. [ + ]

Telstra Global has signed an interconnection agreement with GTS that will give it access to points of presence in five Central and Eastern European countries. [ + ]

Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has appointed a world-renowned scientist to drive a spatial revolution in the business and government domains. [ + ]

Oracle has had a legal victory in its copyright infringement case against heavyweight Google, with a US appeals court deciding Oracle can copyright parts of Java. [ + ]