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Victorian govt's ICT strategy emphasises cloud, mobility, access
The Victorian Coalition government has released its ICT strategy for the next two years, which focuses on cloud, mobility and community access. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
Australians clicked 27m malicious links in Q1
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 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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
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. [ + ]
