Stories by Chloe Herrick

Given just six weeks’ notice of an impending merger and complete consolidation of IT infrastructures, the IT team at national law firm Gilbert + Tobin (G+T) had their work cut out for them.

Despite the expected release of NBN Co's Standard Form of Access Agreement today, Optus has confirmed it is still in negotiations with the company to address what it views as unresolved issues in the draft version of the agreement.

The Federal Government has flagged a trial of in-house telemonitoring technology for chronically ill veterans via the National Broadband Network (NBN), kicking off in July 2012.

The National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) has licensed software from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to aid the move to a standardised dictionary of clinical terms as part of the Federal Government’s PCEHR project.

Eight months after announcing plans for a 12-month trial of a real-time passenger information system on Queensland buses, the state’s transit authority, TransLink, is completing final preparations to begin the trial in early 2012.

The Federal Department of Health has introduced e-health legislation into Parliament pertaining to its $467 million Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) project, scheduled for completion by 1 July 2012.

Optus director of government and corporate affairs, Maha Krishnapillai, has been appointed to a newly created role with Australia Post’s retail division to grow its telco arm.

Telstra has launched two new bundled telehealth offerings aimed at rural and regional healthcare providers under a $620 million Federal Government initiative.

NBN Co has released the final draft of its wholesale broadband agreement (WBA) for review by industry, and will publish its Standard Form of Access Agreement by 30 November.

Telecommunications wholesaler, Telcoinabox, is the latest RSP to sign up to offer services over the National Broadband Network (NBN), entering into a wholesale broadband agreement with NBN Co to deliver services from April 2012.

The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) is on the hunt for a provider to develop and host a Web portal with the aim of better managing and preventing chronic disease among indigenous Australians.

The Broken Hill fibre backbone link, part of the Federal Government’s $250 million Regional Backbone Blackspots Program (RBBP), has finally gone live two months later than previously planned.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is on the hunt for the petascale supercomputer that will underpin its Pawsey Centre, scheduled to be in place by 2014.

An official early final hearing date has been set in the Federal Court for the case brought against Apple by Samsung, in which the latter is seeking to ban the sale of the iPhone 4S in Australia.

Victoria’s Country Fire Authority (CFA) has entered into a three-year deal with HP for the supply of ICT services to improve the management of information in its Advanced Warning System (AWS) in time for the impending bushfire season.