Australian ICT infrastructure solutions and services company, UXC Connect, has secured four contracts to the value of $8 million to provide its campsite entertainment solution to thousands of workers located in four remote mining camps across the Pilbara in Western Australia.

Gold Coast-based IT firm Mercury IT has just finalised a two-year technology transformation of Queensland’s largest regional taxi service.

Fuji Xerox has won a competitive tender to provide the federal government’s Department of Human Services with dynamic content publishing software and services to be used by Centrelink, Medicare Australia, and Child Support.

The Axe Group software company’s eClaims software system has been implemented by life insurance company, AIA Australia, and made available, through their portals, to the 2.2 million members of AIA’s client companies, REST and GESB.

Australian-listed enterprise software company, TechnologyOne, continues to win business with Government legal authorities, securing contracts with the Legal Aid Commissions of Western Australia and South Australia to modernise their legal aid grants management systems.

Primus Telecom has won a contract from energy retailer Australian Power & Gas (ASX: APK) to provide an Australia-wide voice and data network.

Australian-listed satellite company, NewSat (ASX:NWT) has signed a new strategic satellite capacity contract with Asia’s Malaysian-based MEASAT Satellite Systems, which boosts the total value of all contracts NewSat has secured for its next-generation Jabiru-1 satellite to US$526 million.

Global provider of airport management solutions, Gentrack, has secured a new contract to deploy its aeronautical billing system to Brisbane Airport, following the airport operators’ tender for a new suite of operational airport systems, also won by Gentrack’s Airport 20/20 division.

Alcatel-Lucent's former contact centre software business Genesys has announced its rebirth as an independent company saying its sole focus is "to save the world from bad customer service."

Global IT services and technology provider, Smartmatic, has sealed a 10-year contract with Belgium's election authority, FPS Interior to supply its innovative automated election system, starting with local elections that will take place in Belgium in October this year.

Intel is the latest company to buy up some patents, but rather than spending billions upon billions of dollars, it seems to have picked up a relative bargain, snapping up RealNetwork’s patents for just over one tenth of a billion, at $120m.

CRM systems provider, StayinFront has secured a contract to supply its on-demand consumer goods CRM solution to Australian supplement and sports nutrition manufacturer, Vitaco.

Australian-listed enterprise software solutions provider, TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE) has released OneHealth - its first preconfigured enterprise solution for hospitals and healthcare providers - and has already secured new customers with a combined contracts value of $4 million.

New Zealand’s largest full service financial institution, Westpac Life New Zealand, part of the Westpac Group, has standardised its systems on a platform from global data integration software provider, Informatica, to help power its strategic initiatives around customer centricity and big data.

Riverbed Technology purchased the intellectual property and other assets of Israel based rival WAN optimisation company Expand Networks, which is in liquidation.

Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a contract by global engineering firm Bechtel to build a communications network for the facility being build by Chevron in Western Australia to process gas from its offshore Wheatstone field.

ICANN says that applications for new generic top level domain names (gTLD) will open on schedule on 12 January.

iiNet (ASX: IIN) is to acquire Australia's largest privately owned ISP, Internode for $105m.

Rumours are circulating that Amazon, Microsoft and Nokia have  had informal or formal merger discussions with Research in Motion in recent months, but with none of these discussions progressing to the stage of a formal bid.

Vodafone has connected its first customers to the National Broadband Network, in Armidale: a move that marks its first foray into fixed network offerings.