Business leaders may be starting to give the IT function more credit as a font of innovation, and CIOs are being given more input at the executive level, a survey suggests. [ + ]

Older Australians are using the internet nearly as often as teenagers, but a lack of awareness about cybercrime risk is leaving them vulnerable to fraud. [ + ]

Amdocs will buy Celcite for $136m in a bid to broaden the network management software and services it can offer to its telecom service provider customers. [ + ]

Use of software-defined communications technology among Australian businesses is increasing, with CIOs starting to show a preference for software-only PABX systems. [ + ]

The government has launched a review into the personally controlled electronic health record (PCEHR) project, claiming poor take-up rates to date among Australian clinicians. [ + ]

A National Library of Australia exhibition uses modern technology to provide insight into rare and valuable old maps, as well as the origin of the geospatial industry. [ + ]

The cloud is probably the most hyped concept in IT right now, and also the one greeted with the most cynicism by wary IT pros. We spoke to three IT leaders to get their honest thoughts on three aspects of the cloud: the OPEX/CAPEX argument, end-user adoption of cloud tools and potential government surveillance of cloud data. [ + ]

Google and several affiliated tech companies have been sued for patent infringement by Rockstar Consortium, a joint venture owned by Apple, Microsoft, BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony. [ + ]

Pitcher Partners, an accountancy, auditing and advisory firm, has implemented a 4G Wi-Fi cradle to improve its audit teams' access to the internet while on the road. [ + ]

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has questioned the legitimacy of NBN Co's 2013 annual report, which was produced by NBN Co under the previous government and released to the public just last week. [ + ]

The National Museum of Australia is using CSIRO telepresence technology to offer students virtual tours of Phar Lap's heart, hide and skeleton - each located hundreds of kilometres apart. [ + ]

NT government department DCIS has contracted IBM to provide a new mainframe system, as part of its regular four-year IT refresh. [ + ]

The increasing importance of digital assets to government processes will prompt a number of state organisations to create new dedicated C-level roles, Gartner predicts. [ + ]

With an increasing number of devices being used across the enterprise and the eagerness with which many individuals, departments and branches tend to pursue their own software purchasing plans, is it any wonder that few organisations are able to easily identify their true software licensing costs? [ + ]

Eleven teams with unique start-up ideas are finalists in this year's Sydney Genesis Entrepreneurship Challenge, competing for $13,000 in cash. [ + ]