The Internet Society of Australia has welcomed both the government's digital transformation investments and the Opposition's pledge to address STEM skills while encouraging innovative start-ups. [ + ]

In his Budget reply speech, Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has pledged that a Labor government would ensure that coding and computer science are taught in all Australian primary and secondary schools. [ + ]

Australian government spending on ICT is set to grow from $5.8bn last year to $6.2bn in 2018, with growth driven by software, cloud and security investments. [ + ]

Microsoft reveals 7 editions of Windows 10, CSC reportedly sues former employee for more than $120m and Verizon to buy AOL for the sum of $5.5 billion. [ + ]

As Windows 10 and its as-a-service approach comes closer, enterprises should equip themselves to manage this new paradigm or pay the price in inefficiency and unavailability of critical business tools. [ + ]

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The federal government's 2015 Budget includes some substantial ICT investments, including $254.7m on the Digital Transformation Agenda, $153.8m on the data retention scheme and $485.1m on the MyHealth system.

Experts from Australia's technology industry believe the 2015 federal Budget will help stimulate the sector but are calling for more initiatives to improve the economy and address the growing ICT skills gap.

Research released this week indicates that Australian organisations are not using enterprise resource planning (ERP) to its full potential, with 66% of CIOs believing their organisations are using less than half of the features of ERP systems.

Australian enterprises risk losing $48.4m over the next two years from attacks on security keys and fear a 'cryptoapocalypse' whereby security key algorithms are compromised overnight. [ + ]

Tencent has 'gamed' performance tests say antivirus testing organisations, Chuck Robbins replaces John Chambers as Cisco CEO and Motorola Mobility ordered to pay US$10.2m to Fujifilm for infringing patents. [ + ]

Some enterprise-class SSDs can lose data within weeks or even days when left without power in high temperatures, according to research from the JEDEC. [ + ]

Mere months after Lenovo's Superfish snafu, the company has been accused of having a "massive security risk" in pre-patched versions of its pre-loaded software. [ + ]

Spark New Zealand has objected to a proposal to increase wholesale prices for copper broadband access and called on regulator the Commerce Commission to instead reduce the charges.

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