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Channel businesses should be planning on how to deal with forthcoming Carbon Tax now, according to experts.

Australia is lacking a collaborative infrastructure strategy which has stifled the implementation of intelligent technology solutions across the country, according to Telstra principal regulatory economist, Dr Flavio Romano.

Victoria's $500 million e-health system, aimed at creating electronic patient records and prescriptions, has been dumped and will be replaced with a patchwork approach.

Job advertisements on the internet fell by 0.1 per cent in February compared with a month earlier, federal figures show.

The United States government has formally lodged a request to extradite alleged copyright pirate Kim Dotcom from New Zealand, a lawyer representing the US says.

AppSense invests in strategic global expansion plans

Senator expects that the roll-out of the NBN to change broadband quality

There has been a cost blowout in IT contracts to two state government agencies because they failed to review whether taxpayers were getting value for money, Auditor-General Peter Achterstraat says.

Gillard Government invests up to $100 million in new, innovative companies

Digital Education Revolution to transform Australian classrooms

Queensland's special education students would be gifted iPads or similar tablets under a Liberal National Party (LNP) government, party leader Campbell Newman says.

Fill in ARN’s annual survey of the Australian IT Channel and be in the running to win a Toshiba AT100 Tablet

Cloud computing, data analytics and agile development will be the key government technology trends in 2012, according to independent technology analyst firm, Ovum.

The service provider states the Microsoft LAR contract with the Federal Government did not 'double its licensing division's revenue to $292.8 million in the year it was finalised

Inquiry into the $2.2 billion initiative highlights areas for improvement in drive towards achieving “one computer per student”

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she wants developing nations to invest in clean energy, as she heads to the G20 leaders' summit on France's south coast.

The NSW Government has revealed an industry taskforce to develop a Digital Economy Industry Action Plan for the state. It also introduced $3 million injection to support creative digital content projects during a two-year period.

Intel’s Phil Cronin and CSC’s Bob Hayward are two of the industry heads that will form the new NSW Information Communications and Technology Industry Advisory Panel, announced by the Minister for Finance and Services, Greg Pearce.

Federal health minister Nicola Roxon has hit back at critics of the "opt-in" system for setting up individual electronic health records, saying people shouldn't have to make the switch before they are ready.

Australians are a step closer to accessing their medical records from July 2012 after the government issued the blueprint for national electronic health records.