Symantec has appointed Brenton Smith as vice president of the Symantec.cloud business in Asia Pacific and Japan.

Telecom New Zealand has signed a new three year supply chain agreement with Miami based Brightstar covering all mobile, broadband and fixed line products; just weeks after Brightstar's controversial relationship with Telstra came to an end.

One of the most contentious relics of the Trujillo era at Telstra has been partially put out with the garbage, with the news this morning that the telco had sliced a large piece of the pie out of its long-running relationship with handsets wholesaler Brightstar.

Mitel® (Nasdaq: MITL), a trusted provider of unified communications software solutions has appointed Brightstar Corp. as a distributor for the Australian market. Brightstar provides value-added distribution services and solutions for the converging wireless and IT industries across six continents.

Telstra has competed a trial of using RFID to track the movement of new cellphones from distribution centre to stores and estimates large scale rollout could save $4m per year and generate positive RoI in 18 months.