Industry
Melbourne IT has sold its Digital Brand Services division to US-based Corporation Services Company for $152.5 million, nearly as much as the whole company is worth.
LG stakes its claim to Aussie smartphone market with 4G Optimus G
By Stuart Corner
LG has introduced its Optimus G LTE capable Android smartphone to the Australian market, and has positioned itself as being a challenger for market leadership.
Growing user acceptance of ‘push' mobile banking and a sharp rise in tablet adoption will drive users of transactional tablet banking services to almost 200 million globally in 2017, according to a new market report just released.
Telecom New Zealand has undertaken a 'strategic review' of the Australian operations of its IT services unit, Gen-i, which will mean a concentration on trans-Tasman customers.
International construction and machinery provider, the Bauer Group, is now using FrontRange’s the HEAT IT Service Management (ITSM) suite for help desk support for its employees.
Enterprise mobility vendor, Good Technology, has been certified by the intelligence arm of the federal Department of Defence, the Defence Signals Directorate, to provide a secure mobile container solution which will allow iOS devices to securely communicate and store classified information up to ‘Protected’ level.
As reported in iTWire in January, Chinese PC maker Lenovo is in discussions to buy BlackBerry. The rumours were denied by both companies at the time, but as rumours do, they persist. Thay are being fuelled by Lenovo, so something is going on.
Cisco adopts Aussie LTE technology, eyes $US7b US network contract
By Stuart CornerCisco is to incorporate technology from Australian company Etherstack that will enable LTE smartphones to be integrated into public safety trunked mobile radio networks operating on the P25 standard.
A new facility integrating Curtin University’s ICT services with the supercomputing capacity of iVEC to enhance research outcomes has just been launched.
Asia Pacific integrated network and enterprise technology solutions provider, Pacnet, is to invest US$90 million building a new Tier III data centre in Singapore to meet what it says is the region's “accelerating demand for connected, advanced data centre and managed services.”
