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Telstra to launch first 4G Windows phone

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:01:00 +0000

Telstra has announced that the HTC Titan will be the first Windows Phone to operate on its 4G network, which it will offer to business customers from Tuesday. (Credit: Telstra) Telstra's group managing director of business Will Irving said that the HTC Titan 4G is all about making it faster for customers to do business. It has a 1.5GHz Snapdragon S2 processor, and runs on Telstra's long-term evolution (LTE) "4G" network at 100 locations across the country, allowing for download speeds of between 2 megabits per second (Mbps) and 40Mbps.

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SA Health’s journey to e-health

Wed, 23 May 2012 01:13:01 +0000

Implementing e-health services for an entire state is a daunting task, but, as South Australian Health manager for e-health services, Bill Le Blanc, has revealed, even the preparation steps are complicated tasks.

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JobWatch: where the jobs are

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:37:01 +0000

The latest analysis on online job ads from the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations makes for depressing reading: online job ads in ICT fell again last month. In April, newly advertised jobs for ICT professionals were 2 per cent down from March, and 22 per cent down on a year ago.

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Android fragmentation steers Vic Health

Tue, 22 May 2012 23:15:01 +0000

Fragmentation issues in Android were a key concern for the Victorian Department of Health when it came to designing its Better Health Channel app; so much so that the department has opted to design a web app for the platform, rather than going native. Better Health Channel's iOS app (Credit: Victorian Department of Health) The Better Health Channel has been running an online database since 1999, and now has over 2000 pages of health information that require constant quality assurance and maintenance from health professionals

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Ausgrid network to talk back to operators

Tue, 22 May 2012 20:39:01 +0000

Ausgrid is rolling out upgrades to the electricity grid in Port Stephens, with technology that will allow the network infrastructure to "talk" to operators on what might be wrong. (Cincinnati Mason Community "Power Nature & Man-Made" image by David Ohmer , CC BY 2.0 ) The technology will be installed into the part of the Port Stephens grid that supplies Nelson's Bay and Shoal Bay, where power lines can stretch up to 41km in length. At the moment, Ausgrid crews have to patrol these lines during blackouts or interruptions to determine the cause of the issue

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Research key to good apps: Westpac CIO

Tue, 22 May 2012 19:13:01 +0000

Westpac announced yesterday that it has over a million users actively signing in and using its mobile banking platform regularly. But what does it take to build an app that people keep coming back to? The bank's chief information officer (CIO) says that it requires more care and research, than one might think

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Kaspersky’s antivirus denied on iOS

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:16:01 +0000

Kaspersky Lab is the latest company to be denied the chance to develop an official antivirus app for iOS. AVG and Trend Micro are others that have openly criticised Apple for making it difficult to develop antivirus apps, but they don't want to risk their developer status to make a jailbroken equivalent.

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SuccessFactors launches Sydney datacentre

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:10:01 +0000

in brief SuccessFactors has announced that it will start hosting its cloud products out of a datacentre in Sydney, Australia, to service customers in the region. The SAP-owned company is targeting government and local businesses with the datacentre, which will host the SuccessFactors Business Execution suite BizX. The datacentre, obtained via the company's purchase of Australia-based analytics firm Infohrm in 2010, is a Federal Government panel-certified facility, and is also ISO 27001 certified.

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SAP eyes cloud super network with Ariba buy

Tue, 22 May 2012 17:56:01 +0000

SAP America is looking to develop "the business network of the future" with the acquisition of cloud-based business commerce network Ariba, at the price of US$45 per share, amounting to approximately US$4.3 billion. Each party will be bringing something significant to the table. Ariba already has the buyer-seller collaboration network, which is intended to compliment SAP's existing customer base, as well as its B2B and on-premise solutions

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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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