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• Today’s state of work: The productivity drain

  The Internet has created radical changes in our personal lives. We now live in a “consumerised” online world where we shop for products and services with a few taps on a smartphone.

• Westpac signs on to Australia Post’s digital mailbox service

  Westpac customers now have the option of sending and receiving financial information with Australia Post's digital mailbox, MyPost, following a new agreement between both companies.

• In Pictures: Keeping your data and email secure— no matter the industry

  Don’t think email security is important? Here are six everyday scenarios where many businesses loosely send sensitive and confidential content and files over unsecure email.

• Tablet users more engaged with online banking

  Online bank ING Direct has found that customers who use a tablet device to access its services are likely to be more engaged, with higher savings balances and more products than non-tablet users.
  

• Australia Post links up with myGov for digital mail delivery

  Australians can now have digital messages from myGov forwarded to an Australia Post digital mailbox under a trial by the Department of Human Services.

• Fujitsu shuttles NSW government email to the cloud

  Fujitsu will provide a cloud email service for 27,000 mailboxes across the New South Wales government.

• ING Direct unveils new mobile banking app

  Online bank ING Direct has updated its mobile banking capabilities with a new app that lets users view their balances across all accounts before logging in, and transfer money to anyone in Australia with email or SMS notifications.
  

• In Pictures: Gmail's latest redesign

  Google's new Gmail interface attempts to do away with the headaches of email management

• Retail chain sees value in Google Plus

  Retail chain Dick Smith will use Google Hangouts to share best practices among its stores and bring employees closer together, according to the retailer’s IT director, Linda Venables.

• Email Privacy Tops Tech Agenda at Judiciary Committee

  Should law-enforcement officials have easier access to your email just because it's stored in the cloud? It does now and Patrick Leahy says he intends to resume efforts to update 1986 electronic privacy law to provide greater legal protections for emails and other digital files in the cloud.

• Telstra invests $4 million in cloud communications company

  Telstra completed a $4 million investment in Whispir that will help the cloud-based software company expand into Asia.

• Gartner sees shift to hybrid cloud unified communications

  Australian businesses are moving towards a hybrid cloud approach to their unified communications services, according to Gartner analyst Geoff Johnson.

• Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness

  Before I get to this week's main topic I must give a big thumbs-up to a book that all of you who like to cook will thoroughly enjoy: "Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food" by Jeff Potter (pub. O'Reilly).

• Yarra Valley Water announces email upgrade to improve its disaster recovery

  Yarra Valley Water has announced it will make major upgrades to its email system due to its Microsoft Exchange platform becoming outdated.

• Gmail dominates Cloud email in the enterprise

  The battle for enterprise Cloud email accounts could heat up in the future, according to analyst firm Gartner, with Google's Gmail offering grabbing 50 per cent share of the global market.