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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Westpac board goes paperless with iPads

in brief Over the weekend, Optus announced a new offer: free fixed broadband with some of its mobile plans. From today, Optus customers who sign up for an $89 Timeless or Business Timeless mobile plan for 24 months or a Home Advantage home phone plan for $59.95 per month will receive 50GB of free broadband, with no set-up fee. Existing customers can upgrade to the plans to take advantage of the offer, or, if they are already on the plans, they can upgrade to free broadband

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Google has released a full version of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) report on the company's controversial gathering of personal data with Street View cars. (Google Street View car in Bristol image by Byrion Smith , CC2.0 ) The move, reported by the Los Angeles Times , comes about a week after a privacy group filed a Freedom of Information Act request to see the full report, and a short time after the FCC released a heavily redacted version, saying that Google's data collection had not broken the law, but that the commission would impose a US$25,000 fine on the company for "deliberately impeding and delaying" its probe .

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Google's hard drive in the sky, Google Drive , is a big threat to other cloud storage products like Dropbox and Box. But it's also a stab straight at the heart of Microsoft's mainstream business software, Microsoft Office.

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Google Drive will help kill Microsoft Office

Local IT services company Datacom has added a new SAP division to its ranks after buying out Melbourne-based SAP implementation and support firm Enterprise Support Asia Pacific for an undisclosed sum. Datacom announced the acquisition today, and outlined plans to integrate Enterprise Support Asia Pacific directly into the Datacom business to "augment ... business process outsourcing capability around payroll and related human resource management services," said Mark McWilliams, investments director for Datacom.

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Datacom adds SAP capability

Employees are bringing their personal laptops, tablets and smartphones to work, rather than using the devices assigned to them by the organisation they work for. This is no problem, according to Microsoft

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Windows 8 set for BYOD: Microsoft

Research In Motion has rolled out its mobile device management software - BlackBerry Mobile Fusion - in a bid to manage Apple iOS and Android devices in the enterprise.

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RIM launches BlackBerry Mobile Fusion

Microsoft Windows chief Steven Sinofsky opened his pitch at Mobile World Conference (MWC) on Wednesday by noting that "the last time we made a generational change was Windows 95". Consumer hype aside, what's in Windows 8 for enterprise users? Steven Sinofsky at Microsoft's Windows 8 consumer preview event

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Windows 8: what's in it for enterprise?

Just weeks after pinching the former Hutchison CEO, Optus has now landed a former Telstra executive for the role of managing director of Optus Business. John Paitaridis (Credit: Optus) John Paitaridis comes to the role with over 20 years in the industry, most recently with Telstra as the company's executive director of Network Products and Services for the telco's Enterprise and Government division

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Many Australian businesses have no plan for how they will start work again following a disaster, says flexible-workspace provider Regus. Businesses affected by natural disasters could face huge financial costs, but smaller incidents, such as vandalism, theft of company data and power outages, can also have a serious impact

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Too many firms lack disaster plans