Industry groups and the US Chamber of Commerce have opposed new Chinese rules requiring IT companies selling to China's public sectors to provide their source code and install backdoors into hardware and software. [ + ]

Telstra has announced plans to develop a cloud environment built specifically for federal, state and local government. [ + ]

Six in 10 Australian IT professionals are expecting a pay rise in 2015, suggesting that confidence in the career prospects of the occupation is returning, according to Robert Walters. [ + ]

Around 5000 delegates will gather in Melbourne later this year for the largest engineering event ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. [ + ]

Amcom has won a 13,000-user contract to deploy unified communications services based on Cisco HCS for eight University of Melbourne campuses. [ + ]

A Melbourne recruitment firm has paid $11,190 to settle a lawsuit alleging it had been using Microsoft's Office 2007 without a valid licence. [ + ]

Flinders University and Cisco have signed an agreement that lays the foundations for Flinders to lead Australia in some of the most innovative parts of the internet. [ + ]

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will cut between 11,000 and 16,000 more jobs as part of changes to its ongoing restructure. [ + ]

Dutch regulators have declared Google's practice of aggregating user data to be a breach of local law, in a case which could have wider implications for the firm in the EU and elsewhere. [ + ]

Computer scientists have developed a technique to automatically allow one computer in a virtual network to monitor another for intrusions, viruses or anything else that could cause a computer to malfunction. [ + ]

Up to 50 new jobs will be created in Western Sydney over the next three years following the announcement yesterday by cloud computing company Rackspace of its investment in a new multimillion dollar data centre in Erskine Park. [ + ]

The success or failure of a recent agreement between NSW Trade & Investment and SAP, which will see the government department deploy SAP’s Business ByDesign SaaS (software as a service) ERP solution, will be an indicator of the future of cloud services in Australia, according to Ovum. [ + ]

The Chinese contact centre market positioned itself in third place in the Asia Pacific region in terms of revenue in 2010 and will overtake Australia as the second largest market by 2017, according to Frost & Sullivan. [ + ]

Sixty per cent of corporations are expected to implement formal programs for monitoring external social media for security breaches and incidents by 2015, according to Gartner. Many organisations already engage in monitoring as part of brand management and marketing, but Gartner believes less than 10% currently use these same techniques as part of their security monitoring program. [ + ]

Metronode, a subsidiary of Leighton Contractors, today opened what it terms a “large-scale, energy-efficient data centre” in Derrimut, Victoria. The facility uses direct free air cooling and modular plant systems to help increase power utilisation efficiency. [ + ]