The Victorian Government has made the decision to scrap its HealthSMART system, which was years overdue and had run hundreds of millions of dollars over budget. HealthSMART was launched in 2003 and had been designed to run as a single electronic foundation for the state's public health service. The single platform would combine a finance system, as well as patient-management and clinical-applications services.

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Vic scraps HealthSMART system

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon today said that the US and Australia have agreed on a statement of intent to increase collaboration on cybersecurity.

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Whether it's in a public or private organisation, IT procurement, and perhaps procurement of any kind, seems to be a black hole that if not watched, can suck money away into an abyss. We've heard the stories of the government employees in Victoria who were receiving gift cards for buying printer toner that departments didn't need .

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Woolies case poses procurement questions

Australian Power and Gas has implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other Microsoft software to handle a skyrocketing number of customer queries, but the company's CIO has said that he won't complete the ecosystem with Windows 8 tablets, as the iPad works just fine for a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) model. (Power lines image by Charles Haynes , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Joseph Gullotta joined Australian Power and Gas in 2010 as the company's chief information officer

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Dynamics CRM saves email-drowned utility

The golden age of cybercrime could come to a close as soon as 2014, according to Kaspersky Lab founder Eugene Kaspersky - as long as the world changes how it coordinates on creating laws to govern the internet. Eugene Kaspersky (Credit: Michael Lee/ZDNet Australia) Speaking to ZDNet Australia and presenting at AusCERT 2012 this week, Kaspersky slammed the traditional model of regulation for technology and cybercrime, criticising it of being slow and unsuitable. "Traditional regulation - it's far, far, far behind reality," he said.

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Cybercrime golden age over in two years?

As a tech journalist, you soon learn the view of the "end users" who make up your publication's readership; typically, the IT manager or CIO.

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When regulation goes too far

The rubber has hit the road on a smartphone refresh for Bridgestone Australia, with the company opting for a fleet of new Windows Phone 7-powered Nokia Lumia 800 devices. The Lumia 800 (Credit: Nokia) After successful trials, Bridgestone has now purchased 140 Lumia 800 smartphones for its staff

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Nokia Lumia 800 revs up at Bridgestone

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy's office has said it means nothing that 35,000 Telstra copper connections have been made to houses in greenfield estates, even though it shows how many more premises it has reached than the government's National Broadband Network (NBN) fibre. Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull yesterday seized on numbers reported by Communications Day from a submission made by Telstra to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), saying that it had laid 35,000 copper lines to greenfield estates over the last 12 months. In the meantime, it expects only 4000 premises to be passed by NBN Co's fibre by September, with 951 completed at the end of last year

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Copper greenfield dominance irrelevant: Conroy

Nokia will soon release two new Lumia-branded Windows Phone models in Australia, with the Lumia 900 heading to Optus and the Lumia 610 to Boost Mobile and Vodafone. The Nokia Lumia 900 (Credit: Nokia) Unlike the popular version of the 900 on the AT&T network in the US, the 900 will not be 4G capable in Australia, though it will benefit from dual-carriage HSPA+ data speeds, with a maximum theoretical download speed of 42Mbps. Optus will offer the 900 in June on a range of plans, including $0 upfront for AU$60 per month.

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Nokia Lumia 900 for Optus in June, sans 4G

It's awkward to run afoul of anyone for culturally sensitive reasons. I'd imagine that it's even worse to run afoul of Iran for said reasons. Google is being accused of removing the Maps label from the oft fought-over Persian Gulf, an action that Iran's foreign minister says could lead to the search giant paying "serious damages".

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