The number of people using mobile banking and related services worldwide is forecast to grow from 20 million users in 2008 to a whopping 913 million by 2014.

Responding to what it says is growing market concern over the potential for data loss, CSC, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions and services, has launched a data loss prevention (DLP) service in collaboration with Symantec, to identify, monitor and proactively protect confidential data.

The ICT industry in Queensland has announced a 100,000 jobs lifeline for Queenslanders, including the creation of 30,000 new jobs on top of maintaining the industry’s existing 70,000 jobs in the state.

Almost daily there’s more news about the devastating impact the worldwide economic downturn is having on all business sectors, including the technology industry where the latest report reveals a big drop in mobile phone shipments.

Law firm Freehills has announced a roll out of BigHand a digital dictation workflow system to more than1,000 staff  in its Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane offices, with the Singapore office to follow later this month.

BitDefender is offering a free tool for consumers that will disinfect all versions of Downadup – or  the Conficker worm as it’s commonly known – which the security firm says has swept across the globe infecting 15 million computers worldwide.

BMC Software, with worldwide revenues of $1.86 billion, is boosting its business development efforts in the Australian and New Zealand markets and says it’s confident of growth in its Australian business despite the tough economic conditions.

There are some tough years ahead for vendors with IT spending by the banking sector likely to drop by more than $40 billion over the next five years and the UK expected to suffer the greatest fall as the economic downturn takes its toll on the world’s banks.

The ‘international business elite’ are increasingly accessing the Internet while on the move, with a growing need for more flexibility to view television content on their laptops as well as on their desktop computers and mobile devices.

Trans Tasman supplier of transport and logistics solutions, TransLogix, has implemented an enterprise-wide 3PL (3rd party logistics) warehouse system for New Zealand’s Maxwell Group of Logistics Companies.