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ASX-listed ICT services provider, Data#3 (ASX:DTL), is expecting net profit to sit between $11 million to $12.5 million at the end of the 2013 financial year, compared with $13.6 million in FY12.

Almost 40 per cent of Australian datacentre operators are not measuring power use, according to a recent study by datacentre solution provider, Digital Realty Trust.

The Federal Government has announced two reviews that will support Australia's growing capabilities in cutting edge digital innovation.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has released an update to the national digital economy strategy, Advancing Australia as a Digital Economy, which lays out the next steps towards achieving an improved digital economy by 2020.

With interest in the 7th ARN ICT Industry Awards running at an all-time high, it is with great pleasure we announce nominations are officially open.

Australian satellite communications specialist, TC Communications has won two new contracts to supply and support satellite terminals to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as part of the latter’s project to deploy integrated wideband global satellite (WGS) communications capabilities.

Queensland's Information Technology minister has refused to say how many of the government's 5000 IT workers will lose their jobs to outsourcing.

The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has welcomed the release of the Copyright and the Digital Economy discussion paper by the Australian Law Reform Commission.

A taskforce will be set up to monitor the prevention of exposure, training and supervision of contractors working on the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout, the federal government said.

A man has been killed on a National Broadband Network site on the NSW south coast, NBN Co has confirmed.

Federal Employment and Workplace Relations Minister, Bill Shorten, says he's sympathetic to the setting up of a fund for workers potentially exposed to asbestos found in pipes and pits owned by Telstra.

Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy, has revealed the government’s National Strategy for Cloud Computing, at the CeBIT Conference in Sydney.

The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, has said he supports the introduction of mandatory data breach notification laws in Australia – outlined by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus – and has done so since they were first proposed in 2008 by the Australian Law Reform.

Business and government agencies will be required to notify people when a data breach affecting their privacy occurs, according to new privacy laws that will be introduced in Parliament shortly, Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, has said.

Communications solutions and services provider, NEC Australia, will be providing the Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) nationwide managed ICT support through a new three-year contract.

Former premier Anna Bligh has told an inquiry into Queensland's most costly IT disaster she decided not to sue IBM because there was no guarantee the state would win.

Apple has denied using "gimmicks" to dodge taxes and says it welcomes a review of US fiscal laws after a Senate investigation found it used offshore loopholes to save billions in taxes.

Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

Some of the initiatives announced in the 2013/14 Federal Budget have been met with mixed reactions by ICT industry experts.

Treasurer Wayne Swan’s 2013 Budget does not fully support the ICT sector or investment in ICT required to drive productivity and competitiveness, according to advisory firm, Grant Thornton.