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• HCF invests in telehealth startup to boost rural services

  Not-for-profit health fund, HFC has taken a 15 per cent stake in GP2U, a telehealth startup that allows for remote medical consultations using videoconferencing.

• Brett Wilson new McDonald Jones CIO

  Brett Wilson is the new CIO at home designs and building company, McDonald Jones.

• AGL tests virtual reality for employee training

  A trial of Samsung Gear VR at AGL Energy Limited (AGL) will explore how virtual reality can assist in training new employees, among other potential opportunities.

• Logitech expands video/audio gear for meeting rooms

  Logitech today expanded its offerings in the videoconferencing/collaboration space with the launch of its <strong>ConferenceCam Connect</strong> device ($499.99). Combining an HD 1080p video camera with dual microphones and a speakerphone for 360-degree audio, the ConferenceCam Connect is aimed at small workgroup collaboration settings (up to six people). The device sits between the entry-level BCC950 unit ($249.99) and the upper-end ConferenceCam CC3000e ($999.99).

• Holograms, VR and telepresence: Experts herald the coming Gigabit Age

  The widespread availability of Gigabit Internet connectivity by 2025 will open a brave new world of killer apps, according to the more than 1,400 experts who contributed to the Pew Research Center's latest study.

• Digitising healthcare: The state of e-health in Australia

  We look at several examples of how digitisation is transforming the healthcare industry.

• eHealth NSW gets busy on technology rollouts

  eHealth NSW CIO, Michael Walsh, and newly appointed chief clinical information officer, John Lambert, have laid out some of the technology projects they are focusing on this year, as part of the state’s $400 million e-health strategy.

• Blue Jeans introduces online forum for industry collaboration, customer advocacy

  Blue Jeans Network, a video collaboration service provider, has introduced an online platform that gives people direct access to one another as well as to engineers, product developers, and company executives. The community is designed to give customers and the larger industry a forum to propose new product ideas, share feedback, and request support.

• DHS to roll out videoconferencing, instant transfer of documents

  The Department of Human Services is working on enabling customers to make video calls and instantly send physical documents to customer service consultants via the Express Plus mobile apps, CIO Gary Sterrenberg announced at the CeBIT conference in Sydney.

• Cisco, Google make nice on videoconferencing

  Owners of Google Chromebooks will be able to quickly join Cisco Webex conferences with an application demonstrated for the first time today at Enterprise Connect.

• Microsoft Lync to play nice with Cisco, Android

  Microsoft is accommodating Cisco conferencing systems and Android tablets to help make Microsoft Lync and Skype communications platforms able to connect any customers by voice, video, messaging and conferencing regardless of what device they use.

• Facebook CIO Supports Video Calls to Preserve Employee Culture

  CIO Tim Campos says videoconferencing and other collaboration tools boost employee productivity and preserve the workplace culture at Facebook -- but integration of those tools is a challenge

• Social media levels pecking order at Telstra

  Social media has increased transparency and broken down the staff hierarchy inside Telstra, according to Paul Geason, Telstra group managing director for enterprise and government.

• What is WebRTC?

  Enterprise trade shows have recently been full of chatter about WebRTC (Real-Time Communication). Descriptions like game changer and disruptive technology have been used. But, what is WebRTC and does it really matter?

• CERN retires proprietary video conferencing system in favor of Vidyo

  Tim Smith has some of the best IT end users in the world: the physicists who do research at CERN, which runs the particle physics lab that is home to the Large Hadron Collider, because they need little instruction when it comes to new technology.