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  • Australia's leading patient advocacy and representative group has called on the Coalition to spell out its alternative plan for electronic health, warning that vulnerable patients in regional and remote areas are fed up with disconnected services.

  • Technology services company CSG has delivered an upbeat result likely to please its shareholders after the company was dragged into controversy surrounding the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development's Ultranet project earlier this month.

  • SMS Management and Technology has highlighted electronic health as a major opportunity this year but warned that increased competition for talent has created cost pressures within the business.

  • Criminal charges will not be filed against a school district in the United States after it secretly mobilised the webcams in its fleet of student laptops to take photos of their locations.

  • Roger Burkhardt became a big fan of using open source software during his six years as technology chief at the New York Stock Exchange

  • Coles says it has made progress on a project to significantly improve the extraction of information on competitive trends from its massive customer database.

  • Prime Minister Julia Gillard has twice failed to put a number on how many homes will be connected to the national broadband network during the next three years.

  • Australian economic recovery is paying dividends for some of the mid-size technology players as DWS Advanced Business Solutions and Legend Corporation both post improved top lines, and forecast more growth over the next year.

  • Wireless equipment users will seek hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for devices made obsolete by the Labor government's plans to reallocate radio frequency that is likely to be snapped up by the telecommunications industry.

  • Taxation Inspector-General Ali Noroozi is investigating delays in the payment of tax returns, which may be linked to the Australian Tax Office's recent and problem-plagued technology overhaul.

  • Electronic payments company PayPal has entered into discussions with Google to provide payment services for the internet giant's mobile phone operating system Android.

  • A global supply manager at Apple has been charged with selling company secrets to Asian suppliers in exchange for at least $US1 million.

  • Telstra has blamed customers' confusion about their smartphone plans for a large rise in bad debt

  • Business at thousands of health service providers has been thrown into chaos because of a meltdown with the system used across the sector to process payments.

  • Labor's claim its national broadband network (NBN) will be even faster than first thought proves the party is desperately reaching into its top hat of tricks to win voters over, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says.

  • Federal opposition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull says the government's planned national broadband network (NBN) will never provide a good return for the money spent on it.

  • Australia has not been asked to consider bringing criminal charges against the reclusive founder of the Wikileaks website for publishing classified documents about the Afghanistan war.

  • Industry has branded the Coalition's alternative to the government's national broadband network a confusing mess that could set back innovation and prevent necessary regulatory reform in the local telecommunications sector.

  • South Korea has become the latest country to look into whether Google's collection of wireless data for its Street View mapping service breached privacy laws.

  • Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has struggled to explain the basics of his broadband policy, saying he is not a "tech head".

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