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The man heading up Australia's digital government transformation talks to Computer Weekly about the progress his department made in its first year

UK organisations are putting their reputation, customer trust and competitive advantage at greater risk by failing to provide their staff with effective security training, a study reveals

NGOs in Tanzania use M-Pesa mobile payments to fund a life-saving ambulance taxi service in rural Tanzania

The Cabinet Office will review all government contracts with Atos worth more than £10m per year after heavy criticism in a Public Accounts Committee hearing

Security expert Ed Skoudis says the PowerShell Empire open-source security tool is as much use to attackers as it is to defenders

Organisations are putting their reputation and competitive advantage at risk by not addressing the 'human factor' in cyber security. Could the channel come to the rescue?

Apple Mac users and security professionals must be more vigilant with the discovery of what is believed to be the first Mac OS X ransomware in the wild

The European Space Agency awards Inmarsat a contract to develop a satellite-based data link communications system for air traffic management

DHL's innovation centre in Singapore is trying out the future logistics technologies it plans to introduce across its Asian business

Industry watcher Gartner warns IT leaders pursuing a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy to build cloud apps could be in for disappointment

This week bloggers address enterprise software agreements and SaaS, the case of SD-WAN and HPE's expected entry into the hyper-converged infrastructure market.

The Vietnamese government announces plans to increase access to broadband networks for its citizens, proposing a figure of 40% in four years

The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

Npower has announced a radical restructuring plan, shedding 2,400 jobs on the back of losses of €137m. Its parent company’s CEO identified an SAP billing system as the source of the UK unit’s woes

Many businesses struggle with the volume of software security updates and believe IT teams do not understand the difference between applying a patch and remediating a vulnerability, a survey has revealed

IT outsourcing consultancy sets up operations in Australia, which it says has been overlooked for outsourcing services

Security concerns are limiting the adoption of cloud and mobility throughout organisations, according to the first Dell Data Security Survey

Challenger bank Atom buys gaming expertise business Grasp to develop its online customer interfaces

Social organisation Stemettes ran a two-day hackathon to encourage girls into technology careers

The National Audit Office (NAO) says government changed how it estimates spending with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) four times in five years

The Hilton Worldwide hospitality chain is trialling a robot concierge named Connie, backed by IBM's cognitive computing programme Watson

Urban fibre infrastructure supplier CityFibre signs a national agreement to allow Updata to offer services over its ultrafast network

BT boss Gavin Patterson tells a conference he is working to enable Openreach to accelerate deployment of FTTP

In this week's blog roundup, a survey of early adopters offers insights into the evolving definition of SDN, and several service providers join an SDN alliance.

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) CEO Sally Collier plans to take role as Ofqual chief regulator, leaving the government’s procurement agency behind

The message from RSA Conference 2016: Build security into IoT devices early on, or court disaster. Also in Searchlight: Apple gets a boost; a chance to 'hack the Pentagon.'

The next big thing is actually pretty small: an atom-thick lattice of carbon. Graphene sheets may have applications in solar power, computing, IoT and other smart tech.

The likes of Google, Facebook and Microsoft have bolstered server sales as they build increasingly powerful scale-out datacentres

Attackers will focus on critical data in 2016, mainly with the motive of cyber extortion, according to the latest threat report from F-Secure

Technology produced by Facebook-backed Open Compute Project gets snapped up by datacentre operator Equinix

PayPal’s director of mobile commerce warns retailers that mobile payments should be a top priority to provide the experience customers want

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) uses open source and agility in creating a Raspberry Pi telehealth kit that can connect to the NHS Spine

Knowledge workers realise their jobs will either change dramatically or disappear as the result of new technology, according to research

Estonian robotics startup Starship Technologies secures permission to trial self-driving delivery robots in Greenwich, south-east London

Indian IT suppliers are blazing a trail in the Nordic region with large deals and major local investments

Openreach announces a major expansion of fibre broadband and will provide free FTTP networks to housing developments with more than 250 properties

Many UK business are in no position to roll out Windows 10 and are concerned about supporting diverse IT estates with their existing infrastructure

Smart city technology developers are heading to Malaysia and Singapore on a government-led trade mission

Analyst house 451 Research warns CIOs against the dangers of failing to pair software-defined technology investment with staff training

Cyber thieves made 30 requests for the New York Federal Reserve to transfer nearly $1bn from the Bangladesh central bank’s account, but a typo and the volume of requests alerted banking officials

UK payments regulator has slashed the time it takes for finance firms to join and use real-time payments system

The Royal Mail is the latest provider to be accredited to support the government’s Gov.uk Verify identity assurance service

Irish TV network RTÉ turned to satellite ISP Europasat to support its coverage of the country’s general election

Belgian IT leader group Beltug is joining other organisations across Europe in preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

That a former employee of communications regulator Ofcom stole data should act as a warning about the insider threat in every organisation, say experts

UK bankers now think fintech is a bigger issue than regulatory change, according to a study

Former Cabinet Office Crown representative says a simple rework of the G-Cloud tender could open up the procurement hub to public-sector buyers across the EU

New management system will help railway company reduce costs by applying predictive maintenance and data analytics to essential parts

A fixation on datacentre ownership and mistrust of third-party services could impede enterprise IT in the Middle East

Intermedia arms partners with a free marketing automation platform and new Intermedia University courses to boost sales; more IT channel news from the week.