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• Atlassian launches Australia-wide remote working initiative

  ​Atlassian is starting an Australia-wide assessment of its employees and the teams they work on to gauge their suitability for remote working.

• NIB gets trans-Tasman with video conferencing

  NIB Health Funds has rolled out video conferencing to boost collaboration between its teams in Newcastle, Sydney and Auckland, New Zealand.

• NSW Rural Fire Service cuts travel costs by using video conferencing

  A video conferencing deployment by the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSW RFS) in June 2014 has saved it thousands of dollars in transport allowances/accommodation as it no longer needs to send staff to headquarters in Lidcombe, Sydney for training.

• Live chat improves Lockyer Valley Regional Council customer service

  Lockyer Valley Regional Council (LVRC) in Queensland has cut wait times and improved customer service for ratepayers by using a live chat service on its website.

• NSW Budget 2014: Police and Justice get $81.9 million tech upgrade

  The New South Wales Department of Police and Justice have been allocated $81.9 million over the next four years for videoconferencing and ICT upgrades in the NSW 2014-15 Budget.

• Data brings banks closer to customers

  Banks are seeking closer relationships with customers through greater use of customer data and new technologies, according to banking and telecom officials at the CeBIT Financial Tech conference in Sydney.

• Brisbane Grammar School prepares for Lync

  Students at Brisbane Grammar School in Queensland will be able to connect with classrooms in Australia and overseas in about six weeks’ time when the School rolls out Microsoft’s unified communications suite Lync.

• Managed services drive Australian UC market: Frost & Sullivan

  Demand for managed services is helping the unified communications (UC) market in Australia grow as organisations strive to avoid service and maintenance overheads while controlling UC hardware and applications, according to Frost & Sullivan.

• AARNet, NBN connect primary school students

  Junior newsreaders in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria will be broadcasting their sustainability stories via Australia’s Academic and Research Network (AARNet) video conferencing service and the National Broadband Network (NBN) today.

• WebRTC browser communications standard has several hurdles to clear

  Apple and Microsoft haven't signed up, and mobile and codec efforts remain in progress

• AARNet launches five-year plan

  The Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has announced a wide range of initiatives around network upgrades, collaboration, and mobility as part of a new five-year plan.
  

• 3D conferencing hits the enterprise

  Immersive virtual environments - such as Second Life and some enterprise-friendly alternatives - have traditionally required users to download special software and learn a difficult user interface.

• Video conferencing set to soar: Ovum

  The adoption of video conferencing is on the rise and according to analyst firm Ovum, large enterprises are driving this trend.

• Will Skype be another Microsoft license gotcha?

  After Microsoft acquired Skype earlier this month for $8.5 billion, most of the questions revolved around how Skype's IM, voice and video calling features will fit into Microsoft enterprise products such as Outlook and Lync.

• Microsoft buys Skype for $US8.5 billion

  Microsoft has agreed to buy Skype for $8.5 billion, the companies announced Tuesday.