Stories by Rohan Pearce

Queensland Health staff have committed to handing back overpayments worth $3.5 million, the state government announced this morning.

Tasmania's Department of Health and Human Services has gone to market seeking foundational building blocks for an ICT strategy that will drive better outcomes and options for patients, according to the department's deputy CIO.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has backed a decision by the Coalition government to scarp the limit on claiming tax deductions for self-education expenses.

An attempt at mediation with the National Broadband Network wholesaler over when consumer price index (CPI) adjustments should apply to NBN Co's landmark deal with Telstra has failed according to the telco. As a result, Telstra is taking NBN Co to the NSW Supreme Court next month.

For all the hype around cloud, most Australian enterprises are not yet ready to let go of on-premise technology deployments in most cases, according to market insights firm Kable.

Bentleys Brisbane has begun a pilot of virtual desktops, with the independent Queensland accountancy using appliances that bring together both storage and compute in a single package as an alternative to traditional SAN infrastructure.

Jason Clare will take on the role of communications spokesperson in new Labor leader Bill Shorten's shadow ministry. Michelle Rowland, the member for Greenway, will be shadow assistant minister for communications.

When he was in Australia, Harper Reed – the CTO for US President Barack Obama's re-election campaign – declared that 'big data' is BS. Helen Crossley, measurement and insights lead for Facebook Australia and NZ, may not use Reed's terminology, but the sentiments are much the same.

Facebook is looking to share its data about the online social chatter surrounding television shows with Australian networks.

"We don't have a good notion of what the Internet of Things is yet," says Adam Dunkels. It could be considered a somewhat bold statement for the Swedish computer scientist, given that the company that he's at the helm at – Thingsquare – is focussed on delivering the tools to build the IoT.

Leadership buy-in has been vital as Medibank prepares for its activity-based working transition, according to the head of the ABW program at the health insurer, David Goldsworthy.

The Department of Finance and Deregulation has issued a call for engagement by industry as it seeks to develop a medium to long-term strategic approach to enterprise resource planning systems used by public sector agencies.

Being successful won't necessarily make you happy, but according to Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and CEO of GoodThink, happiness can help raise levels of success. It's somewhat of an inversion of what people typically believe – and it has implications for businesses that want to boost what their employees are capable of doing.

Commonwealth Bank chief information officer Michael Harte wants to resurrect the intimacy that banks and their customers used to have.

For all the talk about devising BYOD strategies there is a simple truth that can’t be ignored: Employees are using their personal smartphones and tablets for work whether they have official blessing to do so or not, and most likely are connecting to the corporate network without caring about official sanction. And if Telstra’s Lalitha Biddulph, the telco’s enterprise and infrastructure services IT director, is to be believed, that’s not a million miles away from the situation many enterprises find themselves in with cloud.