N-able, the Canada-based supplier of the N-central platform for managed service providers, is investing in the Asia Pacific region. That includes Australia, where it already serves the most MSPs per capita.

IBM has moved to expand its enterprise mobility capabilities by acquiring Israel based Worklight, a privately held developer of software for smartphones and tablets.

Australian would-be entrepreneurs will get a crash course in how to ditch and repitch their business plans during a sell-out workshop being hosted by NICTA tomorrow.

Google has asked Australian small businesses “What are you working for?” and the results are as varied as the businesses themselves.

Woolworths says it will “accelerate” plans to restructure its burgeoning line of Dick Smith stores as consumers increasingly turn online for technology purchases.

In a bid to attract more graduates to the company, Sydney-based start-up Atlassian has announced a new program that’ll see graduates head to a beach-side shack to hack up applications for fun and work.

The well known hands-free and unified comms company has crafted a new “education and sales program” to offer “greater support” for its 300 partners across the Aust and NZ region.

As mobile applications running under proprietary platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, etc - proliferate the World Wide Web community has a vision to build equivalent functionality into the browser specifications so that application writers will have access to a much wider community without 'lock in' to any one platform.

HP has revealed the timetable for the release of webOS under an open source licence. Open webOS 1.0 is scheduled to appear in September.

It's not unusual to see mobile operators offering plans that include unmetered access to social networking sites such as Facebook. More constructively, Orange will waive data charges for Wikipedia access by its customers in Africa and the Middle East.

The co-CEOs of embattled BlackBerry maker Research in Motion have stood down in favour of COO Thorsten Heins with the company saying it was "acting on the recommendation of its co-chief executive officers to implement the succession plan they previously submitted to the board."

Polycom has unveiled a strategy to enable service providers to offer cloud-delivered, video-as-a-service (VaaS) to their customers.

Motorola Mobility's strategic investment arm Motorola Mobility Ventures has made an unspecified investment in social networking startup, Shaker, that adds 'Second Life' like avatar interactions to the 'real world' of Facebook.

Huawei Marine has announced that it will undertake a seabed survey for the planned Optikor cable to link Australia and New Zealand by the end of 2103.

A growing number of web sites are planning online protests this month against the SOPA and PIPA legislation being introduced to the US House of Representatives and Senate. Wikipedia is the latest big-name site to join the cause.

Motorola Mobility has scored an initial victory over Apple in an intellectual property dispute in which Apple alleged that Motorola had violated three of its patents relating to smartphones.

California based Internet security specialist ThreatMetrix has acquired privately held Australian company TrustDefender, a developer of secure browsing technology designed to stop man-in-the-browser (MitB) attacks and provide malware protection.

The Bridge Alliance group of Asian mobile operators - that includes Optus - has teamed up with Japanese mobile operator, Softbank Mobile to expand its range of offerings for enterprises.

Data centre operator NEXTDC has received development approval for its planned Perth facility at Malaga.

The Internet Society has launched Deploy360, a programme that aims to "provide real-world deployment information initially for IPv6 and DNSSEC and, over time, for additional Internet technologies."