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• Atlassian launches Australia-wide remote working initiative

  ​Atlassian is starting an Australia-wide assessment of its employees and the teams they work on to gauge their suitability for remote working.

• Serving justice, not technology

  The NSW Department of Justice is looking to drive transformation through a new technology project. Mark Coles analyses the task at hand, IT’s role and the business ramifications.
  

• Streaming music hits the right note

  Video conferencing and streaming have often been positioned as a way of helping organisations reduce travel costs. But for the Australian Youth Orchestra (AYO), the technology is also providing an opportunity to bring a fresh generation of players and listeners into its fold.

• Richard Constantine nabs CIO of the year award

  Flinders University’s CIO professor Richard Constantine won the CIO of the Year award at the 2014 iAwards dinner in Melbourne last Friday night.

• Flexible working requires right tools: Blue Jeans Network

  Many companies are aspiring to - and attempting - the flexible working approach, but Blue Jeans Network has seen few master it.

• NSW Budget 2014: Police and Justice get $81.9 million tech upgrade

  The New South Wales Department of Police and Justice have been allocated $81.9 million over the next four years for videoconferencing and ICT upgrades in the NSW 2014-15 Budget.

• Silver Chain switches on video conferencing to provide remote care

  Western Australian health provider, Silver Chain has rolled out Samsung tablets with video conferencing software to monitor patients who may be thousands of kilometres from their nearest clinic.
  

• Data brings banks closer to customers

  Banks are seeking closer relationships with customers through greater use of customer data and new technologies, according to banking and telecom officials at the CeBIT Financial Tech conference in Sydney.

• Brisbane Grammar School prepares for Lync

  Students at Brisbane Grammar School in Queensland will be able to connect with classrooms in Australia and overseas in about six weeks’ time when the School rolls out Microsoft’s unified communications suite Lync.

• Managed services drive Australian UC market: Frost & Sullivan

  Demand for managed services is helping the unified communications (UC) market in Australia grow as organisations strive to avoid service and maintenance overheads while controlling UC hardware and applications, according to Frost & Sullivan.

• AARNet, NBN connect primary school students

  Junior newsreaders in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria will be broadcasting their sustainability stories via Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) video conferencing service and the National Broadband Network (NBN) today.

• WebRTC browser communications standard has several hurdles to clear

  Apple and Microsoft haven't signed up, and mobile and codec efforts remain in progress

• 3D conferencing hits the enterprise

  Immersive virtual environments - such as Second Life and some enterprise-friendly alternatives - have traditionally required users to download special software and learn a difficult user interface.

• Video conferencing set to soar: Ovum

  The adoption of video conferencing is on the rise and according to analyst firm Ovum, large enterprises are driving this trend.

• Will Skype be another Microsoft license gotcha?

  After Microsoft acquired Skype earlier this month for $8.5 billion, most of the questions revolved around how Skype's IM, voice and video calling features will fit into Microsoft enterprise products such as Outlook and Lync.