Thursday, August 8, 2013

Top 5 lessons from the Queensland Health payroll saga

9 August 2013
The Sydney Morning Herald

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Top 5 lessons from the Queensland Health payroll saga

A whole lot of time and a whole lot of money spent on another IT debacle. The result: learnings.

Hyper-connected: the Internet of Everything includes intelligent buildings, connected vehicle fleets and smart factories.
The Internet of Everything is here but not everyone gets it: report

Six out of 10 Australian business leaders don't know how to extract value from the Internet of Everything.

'If Australia was a business, there is no way it would let its best ideas and talent walk out the door to a competitor,' says Microsoft managing director Pip Marlow.
Long technology wishlist for federal election

The technology industry is adamant it needs more support from Canberra.

The Liberal policy has as much sense to it as building a one lane highway: Ed Husic.
Labor banks on faster NBN to win rural voters

The government hopes its NBN policy will be a key factor in winning support from voters in regional Australia.

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IBM: Awarded a $98 million contract on December 5, 2007.
'Worst failure of public administration in this nation': payroll system

The IT system meant to fix Queensland Health's payroll woes was 'a catastrophic failure' that will cost $1.2 billion, inquiry concludes.

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Bid to kill CAPTCHA security test gains momentum

It is one of the frustrations of the internet: trying to read those distorted letter puzzles that appear when signing up for an email account or web service.

 

Bronwyn Harch will head the CSIRO's new big data division, the division of computational informatics. CSIRO moves to make big data the next big earner

CSIRO creates super Big Data division hoping to replicate global success of Wi-Fi model.

Comfoo, an APT, slipped through the cracks in 2010 and has been found lurking in Asia Pacific shadows. Chinese malware aimed at Australian companies

Tools used by Chinese hackers found spying on companies and governments Asia-Pacific.

ChronoPay founder and owner Pavel Vrublevsky, in handcuffs, at his sentencing. Russian internet payment boss sentenced

Is the Russian government is starting to crack down on cybercriminas in its own backyard? Brian Krebs doesn't think so.

Left to your own devices: BYOD is becoming more prevalent in workplaces. The rise and rise of BYOD

More staff are using their own devices in the workplace.


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