A new approach to the way animated characters move within a game will see big improvements in natural movement.

High-performance content and application delivery specialist Akamai has opened a Melbourne branch office.

The Australian chapter of India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies, Nasscom, has conferred its inaugural ICT innovation awards on four teams of students at the Universities of Sydney, Western Sydney and Wollongong.

NetSuite chief executive Zach Nelson was exuberant during the opening of the company’s annual conference announcing that arch rival SAP had spent almost $US1 million on NetSuite tools which were being used to run one of its operations.

Telstra has launched the first in a suite of tools intended to return CIOs to the IP network driving seat, wresting back control from consumer devices.

Adelaide fashion boutique Ravvel has become the first Australian fashion store to offer customers access to its range of products through the NoQ iPhone purchasing platform.

Canberra-based QuintessenceLabs has been awarded funding in excess of $1 million from the Department of Defence.

In a bid to make virtualisation and cloud computing more palatable to enterprises which have a high concentration of mobile users, or are implementing a Bring your Own Device (BYOD) strategy, VMware has launched a fistful of new products and a public beta of a system that offers what it describes as 'Dropbox for the enterprise'.  

Telecom New Zealand, Auckland Transport and the Westpac Bank in collaboration with Gemalto, Thales and Paymark are to launch a trial of using mobile phones to pay for public transport via near field communications.

Sensis has launched what it calls a 'bounty' program aimed at challenging developers, entrepreneurs and designers to create an application, website, widget or program to help survive a 'zombie onslaught', and it's putting up a so-called bounty of $2,500 to the competitor who can demonstrate integration, innovation and quality in the design and build of an application and show how their concept makes the most of the content and functionality of its business search application, SAPI.

Significant parts of Google's new Google Drive cloud storage service were developed by the company's Australian operation.

The auDA Foundation - a charitable trust set up in 2005 by .au Domain Administration (auDA) to encourage educational and research activities that will enhance the utility of the Internet - is offering grants of up to $25,000 in its 2012 funding round.

Leighton Contractors' data centre operator subsidiary, Metronode's new Victorian data centre has become the second in Australia to be awarded tier III accreditation by the Uptime Institute.

NBN has wheeled out the big guns - the International Telecommunication Union - to refute claims by Malcolm Turnbull that it is being reckless in commissioning geostationary satellites without first securing orbital slots for them.

Titus, the Canadian company which supplies the email mark up system used by Australian agencies including the Department of Defence and ATO to denote whether email contents are public, private or top secret, has this week announced compliance with the Federal Government's latest set of email protective marking standards which are mandated for inter-government commmunication.

Ninefold's Cloud Booster program - which is aimed at helping startups get off the ground - has a new participant in the form of Melbourne and Sydney based Blue Chilli.

Cloud-based helpdesk systems provider Zendesk has signed its one thousandth Australian customer. The milestone was reached six months after the company set up shop in Australia.

Value added distributor Westcon Group has expanded its portfolio with the addition of CA Technologies to its list of vendors.

For some years, Microsoft engineers have been experimenting with the manipulation of time.  Finally, the results may be revealed.  

Three tech startups co-founded by current or former students have been granted a home at the University of New South Wales.