Worldwide service revenues generated by LTE mobile networks are forecast to grow rapidly once networks are launched, exceeding $265 billion by 2016, and while the total number of LTE consumer subscribers will be higher than enterprise in five years time, consumers will in fact only account for under half of total revenues.

With Australia having a comparatively strong economy amongst its peers around the world, a strong currency and a resources-backed income source, reports that Amazon is considering both an Australian data centre and a local online presence would seem to make good business sense.

Web hosting and domain name services provider Melbourne IT has signed a three year deal with Indian IT services corporation HCL Technologies to implement its global Integrated Web Services IT integration project. The $18 million project is expected to take three years to complete.

Amazon has come up with another web service: Amazon Simple Notification Service.

Websense has appointed a new head of its Asia Pacific sales operation with responsibility for building business in the region.

Australian-based Internet services provider, WebSpy, is set to acquire procurement and materials management system provider, Marketboomer, with its announcement that it has entered into share sale agreements for a full buyout of the Marketboomer Group.

Enterprises globally are expected to adopt cloud solutions en masse in the next 12 months, according to a new study published in a whitepaper by search leader Google. CRM, however, will not be the major driving application.

With the release of Office 2008 for Mac Business Edition, Microsoft trims its Mac Office product line to two entries. The new package is essentially the old full edition of Office, with the addition of some enterprise-oriented networking features.

Internode is aggressively going after marketshare in the highly competitive enterprise broadband market with the boosting of capacity in its New South Wales data centre and the launch of symmetrical high-speed DSL2 services in Sydney and Melbourne.

CRM vendor RightNow has deployed a cloud-based customer care system for new online car insurance business, The Buzz, with the insurer claiming it is the first insurance provider to shape its business by asking an online community what they wanted from their insurance provider.