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IT sector won't be spared from Budget "pain"
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. [ + ]
NBN Co enhances network for medium businesses
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. [ + ]
Human augmentation next on the CIO's to-do list
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. [ + ]
IT budget cuts put Australia behind competitors
In its annual global survey of CIOs, Gartner Executive Programs found Australian IT leaders face significant challenges compared to their global counterparts. [ + ]
Govt to tender for common CMS based on Drupal
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. [ + ]
Australian IT leaders plan to hike data centre spend
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. [ + ]
Telstra Global widens European reach
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. [ + ]
Customer privacy can be a business opportunity
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. [ + ]
NBN Co to run FTTP in TPG's FTTB buildings
NBN Co plans to run fibre-to-the-premises in some apartment buildings where service providers like TPG have already deployed fibre-to-the-basement. [ + ]
Oracle wins appeal in Google Java copyright case
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. [ + ]
Spatial data revolution is coming
Australia's Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has appointed a world-renowned scientist to drive a spatial revolution in the business and government domains. [ + ]
Malware posing a growing threat to enterprises
Around 84% of enterprises had malware operating on their networks in 2013, and more than half had users downloading malware every two hours, Check Point research indicates. [ + ]
One in four govt CIOs expect budget cuts in '14
Government respondents to a Gartner CIO survey are feeling pressed to reduce IT budgets and are losing control of IT spending within their departments. [ + ]
Three billion on the internet by year's end
By the end of 2014, there are forecast to be almost 3 billion internet users globally, with two-thirds of them from the developing world. [ + ]
Privacy policies must be clear and simple: OAIC
Australian organisations must better inform customers about how personal data will be handled, and those that voluntarily report data breaches will be given preferential treatment, OAIC commissioners said. [ + ]
