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• Cyber security taught in high schools, thanks to BT and Big Four banks

  ​Australian high school students will be taught cyber security skills “for the first time” as part of a $1.35 million initiative backed by the Big Four banks, AustCyber and BT.

• NSW Budget: $100M for police technology

  The NSW government will spend $100 million over four years to equip police with new technology, under measures announced in Tuesday’s budget.
  

• Optus to help digitise schools

  The Queensland Education Leadership Institute (QELi) and Optus will create technology solutions for schools across the state following a new agreement between the companies.

• Tablets replacing PCs at Australian schools: IDC

  The Australian education sector is increasing its spending on tablets and cloud infrastructure as demand for PCs fall, according to analysts at IDC.

• Growing confidence in cloud security

  Cloud computing is blowing into 2013 on the winds of confidence, with IT professionals increasingly convinced that the security controls are adequate, but still very, very leery.

• Perth school turns on interactive whiteboards

  Students at Hillside Christian College in Perth are now using a new interactive whiteboard solution won as part of a competition run by SPC and Goulburn Valley and Woolworths and supported by Panasonic Australia.

• Sydney school marries Moodle with Live@edu

  Sydney grammar school Redlands has opted for the Cloud-based Live@edu e-mail system over an on-premise system and integrated the open source Moodle learning management system with it in the process.
  

• MGM Wireless offers Cloud to schools

  IT services company MGM Wireless (ASX:MWR) has begun offering its student management systems as a Cloud-based solution in an attempt to increase availability of its solution.

• St Laurence's makes a KACE for simplified support

  Plagued with budget restraints and constant limits on available skill sets, St Laurence’s College IT manager, Anthony Kennedy, was forced to look for a simplified systems management solution to replace the vast majority of the school's IT support infrastructure.
  

• MGM Wireless swings to slim profit in 1H10

  Chairman Mark Fortunatow declares it a “breakeven financial result”

• Students tweet telescope takeover

  Students from three Melbourne high schools have taken control of CSIRO’s famous Parkes telescope in NSW using the internet, posting their results on Twitter.

• Telstra, Catholic schools build $146m broadband network

  More than 1550 Catholic schools and Catholic education offices around Australia will be connected to Telstra’s network infrastructure following a two-year, $146 million broadband project announced today.