A burgeoning market for healthcare peripherals and increasing smartphone processing power will result in the number of patients monitored by mobile networks to rise to three million by 2016, according to a UK market report.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide has a new chief in charge of its global hosting services business in the wake of its announcement of a multi-million dollar investment in new data centre facilities to expand hosting capacity by 25 percent.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide is making a multi-million dollar investment in an expansion of its global data hosting capacity in a deal with specialist data centre operator, Infinity.

Australian businesses are becoming soft targets for malicious hackers and they lag significantly behind their US and UK counterparts in achieving compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) introduced by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), according to one security assessment company.

Optus is expecting calls and messaging across its mobile network to go gangbusters right through the Christmas and New Year period, with we Aussies expected to pass on cheer and goodwill by making over 34 million calls and sending more than 65 million SMSs on the Optus network on Christmas Day alone.

Facebook has issued a list of the 25 'most social' airports in the world. The correlation with official list of the world's busiest airports isn't as strong as you might expect, so what's going on?

Rising rates of chronic disease are pushing healthcare providers into seeking better and more-cost-effective ways of delivering care, with telemonitoring technology showing great promise, but yet to be widely implemented, according to a global market survey.

The global IT services sector is still doing it tough following a disastrous second quarter this year, with just a slight pickup in the number of deals signed in the third quarter, and with a signficant drop in demand for services in the US market for most of the year.

Global digital security software vendor, Clearswift, has been acquired by mid-market growth investor Lyceum Capital, in a deal that will see increased focus on Clearswift’s content-aware security products as the newly cashed-up company pursues further market growth.

Web hosting veteran Anoosh Manzoori is back with a new business model: provide free hosting, then 'clip the ticket' on ancillary services provided by partners such as SEO specialists, web designers, and ecommerce platforms.