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• Companies not investing in IT governance

  Australian organisations are seriously under-investing in IT governance particularly at a time when they are highly dependent on technology systems across all operations.
  

• Xerox CEO, an Obama appointee, may send jobs to Indian firm

  WASHINGTON - Xerox Corp., whose CEO Ursula Burns is advising President Obama on exports, last week told its product engineering employees that it is in outsourcing talks with India-based IT services firm HCL Technologies.

• Cyberthieves loot SMBs, transfer millions to firms in China, FBI warns

  Some U.S. companies may unwittingly be funding businesses in China to the tune of millions of dollars.

• AT&T's takeover of T-Mobile creates largest U.S. carrier

  AT&T will buy T-Mobile USA for $US39 billion in cash and stock, easily making AT&T the nation's largest wireless carrier, ahead of top-ranked competitor Verizon Wireless and reducing the number of major national wireless carriers from four to three.

• Hospitals kill the fax and exchange health data over the Internet

  Health-care facilities in two states have begun exchanging data with each other and public health agencies over the Internet as part of a pilot program that standardizes the way patient information is transmitted. The goal is to speed up data transmission and to track public health trends, the U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced today.

• Microsoft claims employee stole $460,000 from the company

  Microsoft has sued a former director of business development in state court, accusing him of stealing nearly $460,000 from the company and trying to make off with another $1.5 million before his scheme was uncovered.

• EPA looks for new chief information officer

  Victorian environmental regulator, the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is on the hunt for a new CIO.

• When IT governance goes wrong

  Speaking the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane this week, Cathy Blunt, manager of Griffith University’s internal audit office, provided an interesting insight into the main contributing factors to failed or inefficient IT products in government agencies. The public university has itself undergone internal changes to prevent similar failures, though Blunt wasn’t shy of self-criticism in her review of what sends government IT projects over the edge.
  

• Google denies talks with Verizon to end net neutrality

  Google today denied reports that it is in talks with Verizon for a deal that could undermine net neutrality.

• New guide pushes IT governance to SMEs

  Accounting and ERP software vendor, Attache Software, has released a guide for small to medium businesses aimed at improving the use of IT within their organisations.