Free live streaming from the Australian Open is being delivered by Ooyala - but not to Aussies, Kiwis, Poms... (the list goes on).

Telstra is ramping up its Asian presence. It has secured licences in Singapore and Japan that allow it to own network infrastructure and serve customers directly over this infrastructure, just months after obtaining telco licences in India.

Japan’s Panasonic is to expand its smartphone business to the European market in March next year, and has also a set target of 15 million units for overseas sales of its smartphones by the end of the fiscal year in March 2016, using Europe as a stepping stone to the global market.

Australian registry Cloud Registry is set to operate at least one of the new top level domains, and hopes to get more of the action.

International Space Station commander Mike Fossum (United States) and flight engineers Satoshi Furukawa (Japan) and Sergei Volkov (Russia) landed sideways aboard their Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan early in the morning of November 22, 2011.

Australian professionals are after promotion in their jobs to fulfil their major career ambition, but they also want to look at greener pastures abroad and they might not stay in their current job and, instead, make a holus bolus change to a new industry and an entirely different career.

For the first time ever, the Top Ten supercomputer list remains unchanged from the previous list.  Some have improved their overall performance, but none changed positions.

The number of public Wi-Fi hotspots is exploding around the world, with analysts predicting that the 1.3 million currently available will leap to 5.8 million in the next four years. China Mobile alone plans to deploy a million hotspots and Japan’s KDDI plans to grow its 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots to 100,000 within just six months.

Enterprise cloud software company, Abiquo, has opened a new sales and support centre in Melbourne to service a what it says is a growing customer and partner base throughout the Asia Pacific region. The Australian centre adds to Abiquo’s existing office network across the United States and Europe.

Samsung is making an all out effort to overturn an Apple injunction against sales of iPad 2 look-alike the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia by appealing to the full bench of the Federal Court. The outcome of the appeal could have global ramifications for both companies and the tablet market as a whole.