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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SA Health's journey to e-health

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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JobWatch: where the jobs are

The first video-gaming degrees have finally received government approval in New Zealand. Auckland's Media Design School will be running two degrees, aimed at supplying New Zealand's emerging games industry

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Surely IT is more than just a game?

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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Android fragmentation steers Vic Health

Despite a tighter 2012-13 Federal Budget, the government's chief information officer Ann Steward has said that IT is still an important part of government spending, accounting for $1 billion in the Budget.

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Govt CIO praises budget's $1bn IT investment

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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Kaspersky's antivirus denied on iOS

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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SuccessFactors launches Sydney datacentre

Dell's results were weak across the board in the first quarter, as large enterprise, public sector and consumer sales fell. Dell's race to transform itself into a company with more software and services couldn't outrun weak hardware spending. The company reported first-quarter earnings of US$635 million, a drop of 33 per cent from a year ago, from revenues of US$14.42 billion, down 4 per cent from a year ago.

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Dell profits plunge in spending lull

Google has finally closed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, installed Dennis Woodside as CEO, thanked former CEO Sanjay Jha for his service and outlined a goal to create "the next generation of mobile devices that will improve lives". In other words, the fun is just beginning. Google CEO Larry Page outlined the closing of the deal, and how the search giant is aiming to reach people in emerging markets who view the phone as their desktop

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Google closes Motorola Mobility deal

The Federal Government has proposed advancing its shared cloud strategy for government agencies, unveiling a draft strategy for a "community cloud". The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) described the community cloud as "cloud-computing services shared by several organisations that have shared requirements (eg, mission, security requirements, policy and compliance considerations)"

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Fed Govt steps up on shared cloud plan