South Australian digital transmissions systems vendor, MIMP, has deployed a self-healing wireless network for the Northern territory police which provides for closed circuit television monitoring of trouble spots in Darwin.

Intelligent business systems provider for SMEs, Attaché Software, is now offering payroll users integration with ClickSuper, a new ecommerce solution for processing superannuation contributions, developed by Cuscal.

IT services vendor, AWA Limited, has appointed Rod Wallace as executive manager, Service Logistics, charged with increasing the company’s market share of the service logistics business in Australia and New Zealand.

Travel content provider and publisher, Digital Lonely Planet has promoted one of its own to managing director to lead the next phase of the growth and expansion of its digital business.

Canon has put its competitors on notice that it is undertaking what it calls an ‘aggressive growth strategy’ in the Australian market as it announced the appointment of two 22-year print industry veterans to spearhead its latest sales and marketing drive.

More than half of all Australian businesses will adopt social media as a customer service channel for the first time in 2011, with 71 per cent investigating the use of Facebook, and 53 per cent reviewing Twitter as potential vehicles for propelling positive customer experiences.

Public sector management solutions provider, Objective Corporation (ASX: OCL) has appointed a 20-year IT industry veteran as the new head of product management.

IT consultancy, Dataweave, has successfully completed a major upgrade of key database and enterprise application software for Australian private hospital network, Healthe Care, and secured a contract to provide ongoing outsourced administration and support for Healthe Care’s databases, and other Oracle business applications.

Transport and logistics solutions vendor, Translogix, has scored a double-header, sealing a contract with Contract Warehousing on both sides of the Tasman.

The evolution of the threat landscape during 2010 has revealed new security threats and confirmed the ongoing menace of well-known threats, including attacks on mobile platforms like the iPhone.