Some 2.2 million Australians have signed up for a Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) - now renamed a MyHealth record - and around 10,000 new people are applying per week. [ + ]

Cloud email security and archiving vendor Mimecast will shortly open two data centres in New South Wales to support its Australian operations. [ + ]

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will be available from 29 July in 190 markets globally as a free upgrade to customers running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. [ + ]

Marine Rescue Queensland has turned to cloud computing to help improve information sharing and consistency of training across its 25 once-autonomous volunteer squads. [ + ]

Spending on public cloud IaaS is expected to reach US$36.6 billion globally by the end of 2018, with spending growing more than five times faster than overall IT spending.

Gartner expects Australian BPM revenues to increase 2.4% this year, below the global average. The firm is meanwhile predicting solid growth in sales of non-smartphone connected devices. [ + ]

This week: Space sail-craft falls silent, wrong calculators trip up students, Sydney's Opal losing money, a speedy robotic cockroach and just as you suspected… reality doesn't exist. [ + ]

Optus Business's new cloud strategy is aimed at allowing Australian businesses to pursue flexible cloud deployments, ensuring the seamless movement of data and processes across clouds. [ + ]

Microsoft has announced plans to ensure Windows 10 closely integrates with users' other devices - including Windows, Android or iOS smartphones. [ + ]

Nearly half of online shoppers in A/NZ have abandoned a purchase due to website frustrations and 29% have purchased the product in a physical store instead. [ + ]

More than 600 academics and professionals from across the globe, with expertise in areas such as big data, data mining, social networks and databases, are expected at the five-day 2015 ACM SIGMOD/PODS conference. [ + ]

The newly rebranded Internet Australia aims to take a more active role in discussions about the policies and issues that it says are threatening the fabric of the internet in Australia. [ + ]

Telstra subsidiary Pacnet has had its corporate IT network breached by a third party, PayPal admits to charging some customers twice for transactions and iiNet will help customers fight Dallas Buyers Club cases. [ + ]

The communications ministry has proposed to simplify and modernise Australia's spectrum management framework to accommodate new technologies and business models. [ + ]

Lexmark has secured a four-year managed print services deal with Bank of Queensland covering all the bank's branches, customer support centres and corporate offices. [ + ]