The free, advertising funded WiFi service planned for the Melbourne CBD by local ISP, Netbay Internet and GoConnect (ASX: GCN) - which will be responsible for the advertising - has gone live for a three month trial in Flinders Street station.

Optus has moved to play down the implications of the copyright ruling on its 'TV Now' service for lucrative deals covering exclusive rights to deliver popular free-to-air content to mobile devices

Cisco has announced the addition of 100GBE and 40GBE ethernet capabilities to its Nexus Switches and 40GE to its Catalyst switches in anticipation of surging data centre workloads driven by cloud computing.

Alcatel-Lucent's former contact centre software business Genesys has announced its rebirth as an independent company saying its sole focus is "to save the world from bad customer service."

IBM has moved to expand its enterprise mobility capabilities by acquiring Israel based Worklight, a privately held developer of software for smartphones and tablets.

National ISP, Internode, says its acquisition by iiNet is already paying dividends for its customers, with its most popular broadband services now available through 450 telephone exchanges nationally.

The Federal Government is to provide $4.9m to give children with hearing or vision impairment in regional and remote Australia access to specialist services and therapies through the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Gartner has positioned Riverbed Technologies well ahead of competition in its latest Magic Quadrant for wide area network optimisation vendors.

Cisco has introduced a new Wi-Fi access point designed to meet the demands placed on enterprise Wi-Fi networks by the influx of smartphones and tablets into the corporate environment.

Nine major telcos, including Telstra, have joined forces to form the Global Meeting Alliance, dedicated to facilitating video communications between customers on their respective networks.