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Geoscience Australia embedding staff within Australia Post to learn its 'culture'
Staff were sent to the government-owned poster child to change the culture at Geoscience Australia so it can learn how to do cloud right.
More than 2.5 million Australians have opted out of My Health Record
The figure is almost bang-on with 10 percent expectations the Health Minister has previously expressed.
Cloud growth boosts Data#3 first half revenue to AU$644m
The company said its AU$6 million profit was fuelled by digital transformation initiatives of its customers in Australia.
NBN flags frozen HFC connections thawing over the coming months
Cable premises still ring-fenced by NBN due to its HFC pause, which will be released to market in the next four months.
Government IT projects failing as DTA's phone calls go unanswered
The Digital Transformation Agency told Senate Estimates the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission didn't answer calls after it had binned the AU$34 million biometrics program that it said was doing fine.
Wesfarmers treating data and analytics as a new business strategy
Meanwhile, the ATO believe successful organisations are those that utilise data analytics, IT, and business together.
OAIC under fire for long review wait times following Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
Information and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has revealed during Senate Estimates that there are 18 Freedom of Information reviews that have been left unassigned for 11 months.
Banks praised for their internal cyber defence capabilities
With concerns over where the responsibility of attribution should lie.
Australia has a challenge of scaling defence capabilities for large cyber attacks
Major General Marcus Thompson says Australia's ability to scale its defence capabilities when it comes to the crunch is what keeps him up at night.
Cyber blitzkrieg replaces cyber Pearl Harbor
The first wartime cyber attack against electricity grids was in 1999, says one of Australia's leading cyber strategists, but 20 years later we're still not ready to face 'multi-vector' cyber attacks.
Australian political parties also hit by state actor in parliamentary network attack: PM
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said a sophisticated state actor also hit the networks of Australia's political parties when it attacked the parliamentary network.
Almost 300,000 Australians cancelled their My Health Record by mid-November
Although the government would not reveal the latest opt-out numbers, it did reveal where people have cancelled an existing My Health Record.
Data61 helping NSW predict traffic incidents using artificial intelligence
Data61 is helping the state prepare for a road network that will be used by autonomous vehicles.
Brisbane City Council teaches IBM Watson sarcasm to understand citizen sentiment
It took seven weeks for Big Blue's AI to learn to speak 'council' and pick up the tone of social media posts.
Brightcove acquires online video platform business from Telstra-owned Ooyala
After receiving a $270 million investment in 2014 from Telstra, Ooyala will sell its online video platform business to video cloud services provider Brightcove.
iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Sydney launch: Photos
Hundreds of die-hard Apple fans lined up in the rain to obtain one of the new iPhones, launched on Friday morning -- though significantly less turned up than for the iPhone 6 launch.
UNSW to visualise data sets using DomeLab
The University of New South Wales has launched a DomeLab in the hope to help researchers visualise data sets in the medical and museology field.
Honeywell's Command Suite puts design at the focus
Honeywell's plans to improve user experience is reflective in the interface of its newly announced Command and Control Suite, aimed to provide personnel holistic views of a building's video feeds, access control, and fire alarms.
Who's who in Australia's mandatory data-retention debate
There are a lot of players in the mandatory data-retention debate. We look at who is for the legislation, and who is opposing it.
Telstra opens high-tech Customer Insights Centre: Pictures
Telstra has opened its Customer Insights Centre (CIC) in Sydney for enterprise and business clients, with the high-tech 3,600 square metre facility boasting a 300-person auditorium, a workshop, collaboration spaces, partner pop-up installations, a restaurant, and a broadcast studio.
Tropical tech: IT challenges in remote communities
Operating and maintaining the sensitive IT equipment in Australia's tropical far north can be a challenging undertaking, but NEC Australia has worked out a way to keep things running for some of Australia's most remote communities.
One Laptop per Child reaches 20K devices in Aussie schools
Not-for-profit organisation OLPC Australia's new program, One Education, has now distributed 20,000 computing devices to schools throughout Australia, with a celebration held last week at a school where every student and teacher has a device.
NextDC's Sydney datacentre at 27% capacity
At the launch of NextDC's S1 Tier III Sydney datacentre last night, CEO Craig Scroggie confirmed uptake was already at 27 percent.
Inside Adobe's new office in Sydney
The creative software vendor shifted its operations from Chatswood to the Sydney CBD.
ZDNet App Wrap: February 11, 2013
This instalment of the App Wrap covers Mailbox, Horizon Calendar, Carbon for Twitter, Foursquare for Business, Documents On The Go Pro, Basecamp, Queensland Tide Times, and O'Week at Uni of Adelaide.
Digital Realty officially launches Western Sydney datacentre
The datacentre provider showed off the new facility with NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell attending the launch ceremony.
ZDNet App Wrap: January 21, 2013
This week, the App Wrap looks at Dolphin Browser, CommBank Kaching, CommBank Property Guide, yourMyki, Armadale Shopping City Shopper Guide, iBulkBill, and Australian Open.
Australian Open 2013: tech running the tournament
ZDNet goes behind to scenes to learn more about the tech that is used to support the Australian Open.
ZDNet App Wrap: January 14, 2013
This week we look at the following newcomers from Apple and Google's app stores: Arrivo Sydney, Facebook Pages Manager, Fitocracy, PlayTube, PresentEasy, Python 3.4 for iOS, Share The Fare, and TrackMySpend.
ZDNet App Wrap: 26 November 2012
This week's new apps include: Find a Lawyer, First Aid, Here Maps, Vic Hunting, Francis Bacon, Optus TV with Fetch, Quit for Two, and Great Koala Count.
Optus blames NBN for profit drop
Optus has announced a nine-month net profit of AU$431 million and EBITDA of almost AU$2 billion on revenue of AU$6.8 billion.
eHealth Queensland saved AU$1m per year through a better password reset process
35 percent of calls to the IT support service were from the state's health care providers calling after they forgot their passwords.
Queensland government and QUT to embark on 'AI car' road trip
It is expected the road trip will help the state government build a virtual map to make it safer for artificial intelligence-equipped vehicles to be on roads.
IP Australia's Alex is more than just a chatbot
The patent office is investing heavily into cognitive computing, with its chatbot providing much more to the business than only being a first point of contact for consumers.
NBN finally has a 50Mbps or quicker majority network
People will move to higher speeds on the National Broadband Network if its prices are cut.
Human Services has wiped over 26,000 'robo-debts'
Additionally, 15,000 debts have also been reduced to zero.
Victorian government pushes back on in-classroom surveillance
Victorian Education Minister James Merlino wants the few private schools using the surveillance tech to undertake rigorous privacy assessments and ensure students have explicit guardian or parental consent to participate.
NSW government signs on Microsoft for help with digital transformation
The Microsoft Australia MD told ZDNet there are plans to work with other governments in the country on similar initiatives.
YouTube ripping sites the new piracy site-block target
Thanks to the expansion of piracy site-block laws to websites that have the primary effect of facilitating copyright infringement, a series of music copyright holders have sought the block of sites that allegedly allow users to download YouTube videos and strip them down to audio files.
Victorians to trial Android-based public transport payment
4,000 commuters will be trialling the new public transport payment function.
Huawei ban sees TPG end rollout of Australian mobile network
Australian telco says the lack of a clear upgrade path to 5G will see it end its network rollout.
Max Kelsen using Google's Cloud to help beat cancer through machine learning
The Australian firm has set itself the goal of predicting the effectiveness of immunotherapy treatment.
ACCAN proposes automatic payments to users for missed appointments and repairs
Under proposals from ACCAN, telcos and NBN would need to automatically compensate users for missing repair deadlines and appointments.
Australian government gives Amazon Web Services protected level certification
The cloud giant can now store highly sensitive workloads for Australian government entities.
ACCC delays TPG-Vodafone decision due to lack of information
Decision timeline is suspended until the ACCC gets the information it needs.
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