EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon;

Our top five predictions for the ICT ramifications of last night's Federal Budget look just about spot-on, with smart grids, the Department of Human Services and Defence all singled out for ICT spending.

This morning's CeBIT gave the Government's CIO an opportunity to flesh out our other two predictions - revealing more detail around the implementation of the Gershon IT spending cuts and data centre consolidation.

We'll have more on both CeBIT and the Federal Budget in the coming days.

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | May 13, 2009

Federal agencies are by and large ahead of schedule in terms of realising the cost cuts stipulated by the Government in the wake of the Gershon report, with $109 million of savings identified thus far.

By Kate Holton | May 13, 2009

Vodafone, the world's largest mobile operator by revenue, plans to launch a mobile online app store to sell games, news and travel applications that its customers can use on any phone.

By Brett Winterford | May 13, 2009

Australian Government CIO Ann Steward has ruled out the possibility of the Federal Government building its own supersized data centre to support all its agencies to meet recommendations in the Gershon Review.

By Ry Crozier | May 13, 2009

The Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts is entering the second phase of a virtualisation project that will see it turn attention towards existing IT systems.

By Staff Writers | May 13, 2009

Google has unveiled a slew of new and future features, including one that will allow people to better coordinate Internet searches on their cellphones and computers and another that will produce sophisticated automated research reports.

By Staff Writers | May 13, 2009

Microsoft said on Tuesday that hackers are seeking to attack users of its PowerPoint presentation software for Windows PCs and released patches to protect them against the threat.

By Emile Picy | May 13, 2009

France's lower house of parliament has approved a contested bill that will let authorities track illegal downloading over the Internet and disconnect repeat offenders.

By Clare Baldwin | May 13, 2009

Intel's orders and billing patterns so far in the second quarter have been slightly better than expected, the chief executive of the world's largest chip maker said on Tuesday.

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