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BYOD too immature for us: Human Services

Tue, 22 May 2012 01:23:01 +0000

The Department of Human Services (DHS) has stalled on its move towards a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, stating that the market is too immature for it. Michael Harte (Credit: Commonwealth Bank of Australia) Speaking in the keynote panel session for CeBIT Cloud 2012, DHS general manager for strategy and architecture, Yusuf Mansuri, said that there is certainly a need for information to be mobile. He said that DHS employees often have to visit customers, but, unfortunately, they are restrained, due to regulation and the nature of information.

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Westpac board goes paperless with iPads

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:53:01 +0000

Westpac has spent a year developing its own in-house app for securely taking and delivering notes on the iPad, solving a document-security puzzle that has troubled rivals for some time. (Westpac Bank (formerly Bank of New South Wales), Toowoomba-1 image by David Jackmanson , CC2.0 ) Westpac today showed off Tabula, an app designed for iPads, which was developed in-house for secure document transmission and dissemination by board members. Tabula allows Westpac's administrative staff to cobble together documents from all over the organisation that may be required for upcoming board meetings; customise them into an agenda packet for each board member; encrypt them internally; and send them electronically to the iPad

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Thomson’s phone clone claims uncertain

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:33:01 +0000

Independent MP Craig Thomson's claims that calls to Sydney escort services made from his mobile phone were actually made using a clone of his phone seem unlikely, unless a telco insider was involved, according to a security analyst.

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Vocus snaps up NZ datacentre provider

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:33:01 +0000

in brief Vocus today announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase a New Zealand based datacentre operator and cloud provider for NZ$9.5 million. Maxnet owns a datacentre just outside Auckland and provides infrastructure as a service products to customers and owns a datacentre just outside the Auckland CBD

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CeBIT 2012 opens: photos

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:11:01 +0000

Business-technology exhibition CeBIT 2012 kicked off today, bringing together a who's who of technology players.

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NSW Govt appoints Silicon Valley champion

Mon, 21 May 2012 23:35:01 +0000

The NSW Government has appointed an Australian champion for the technology space in Silicon Valley, US.

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Spotify launch suffers redirect bungle

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:20:01 +0000

Spotify's Australian launch seems to have failed on at least one level: Australians visiting the specific "spotify.com.au" site this morning to sign up found that it had an invalid security certificate. The error security certificate (Screenshot by Suzanne Tindal/ZDNet Australia) Users who found the Spotify service through Google or via the blog announcing the Australian launch were directed to an Australian section of the US site, and were able to sign up without any problems - as spotify.com has a valid certificate issued by a third-party certificate authority. However, users who specifically went to www.spotify.com.au were not redirected to the US site; rather, they remained on the spotify.com.au domain, with the site serving up the US certificate, which did not work

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A farewell to democracy: Kaspersky

Mon, 21 May 2012 21:06:01 +0000

Without internet-based passports and identity credentials for the next generation of citizens to use, for example, at polling booths, democracy will fall apart within two decades, according to internet security billionaire Eugene Kaspersky. Eugene Kaspersky (Credit: Michael Lee/ZDNet Australia) Kaspersky shared his view of the bleak future of democracy, in a keynote address at this year's CeBIT conference in Sydney. He said that governments need to be developing secure, online-based credentials, which can be used to verify the identity of a person when they engage with official government services, as soon as possible.

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BigAir acquires Qld wireless carrier

Mon, 21 May 2012 20:21:01 +0000

Wireless-broadband specialist BigAir has acquired Allegro Networks in an effort to bolster its position in the corporate fixed-wireless and tertiary student accommodation internet markets. BigAir is paying $7.5 million, plus a sum of up to $3 million, depending on Allegro's revenue for the 2013 financial year - which is expected to be between $5 and $6 million. For the $3 million to be payable, student revenue has to exceed $2.2 million and non-student revenue has to exceed $3.3 million in the financial year.

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Qantas promotes tech head to lead Jetstar

Mon, 21 May 2012 19:26:01 +0000

Qantas executives will once again play musical chairs in a familiar game that sees the airline's head of technology promoted into the top job within the airline's low-cost subsidiary, Jetstar. (Qantas tail image by mateoutah , CC2.0 ) Jayne Hrdlicka is currently the group executive for Strategy and Technology for Qantas. As of 1 July, she will become CEO of Jetstar.

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