NEC has teamed up with CA Technologies to develop a cloud-based security service based on CA technology that will be offered to telcos and content service providers to enable them to manage and secure their customers' smartphones and tablets.

An analyst is tipping Lenovo as a future global number one PC vendor.

NEC has teamed up with US-based Internet & PC security technology company Webroot to develop mobile security technology and services for the smartphone and tablet market, to be offered both to telcos and to end users.

Communications systems integrator, NEC, has appointed a new chief of its maintenance and support services business, NECare, with the company pursuing a goal of becoming the ‘leading ICT services provider of choice’ in the Australian market.

Another set of patent infringement suits have been filed against major tech companies.

Jasco Consulting has established two new companies - OneNimbus and OneNimbus Research - to take care of its cloud activities.

NEC and the New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS) last week unveiled what they say is the largest digital video wall in the Southern Hemisphere.

The NSW Rural Fire Service has installed a video wall made up of 100 LCD screens in its state operations centre in Sydney. By using the screens to display everything from weather forecasts and fire fronts, to maps and live video feeds from helicopters, the service hopes it will have better information to help fight bushfires.

  Unified IP solutions provider Interactive Intelligence has added Andrew Austin and Wei Min Khoo to its Melbourne team.  

NEC has brought in a 20 year ICT industry veteran and expert in biometrics to consult to the company’s biometrics and identity management group in Australia and to develop business in the ANZ region.