Software vendor, HighQ, has secured a contract to provide leading Australian law firm, Clayton Utz, with a new extranet and collaboration platform to its clients.

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.

Security firm Bitdefender has secured a deal with the Westpac banking group to offer the bank’s customers a one-year free subscription to its Internet security package including antivirus, antispam, firewall and parental controls as well as social networking protection against malicious pages and privacy threats.

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.

International services provider Dimension Data has completed its acquisition of BlueFire.

Retailer Kmart is replacing its existing network switches with Juniper hardware.

Hewlett-Packard has secured a seven-year infrastructure and applications services agreement with Elders that will see the 172-year old rural services company use cloud technology to cost effectively deploy its enterprise technology refresh program.

The Adelaide-based developer of a distributed backup service has its first US customer: shipping company Craters & Freighters.

Applications open today for Swinburne Online degree programs, a joint venture of Swinburne University of Technology and SEEK developed for 100 percent online delivery.

  Sony will pay €1.05 to take full control of the Sony Ericsson handset business, including 'essential patents'.