Central Coast’s Verb deploys the first HP Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD), which reduces power consumption and costs. [ + ]

HP launches Replace, Recycle, Reward campaign for old technology. [ + ]

Ericsson has delivered 2 million radio base stations as the world heads towards 50 billion connected devices by 2020. [ + ]

Australia’s largest technical education event, Microsoft's Tech.Ed will host more than 2500 IT professionals and developers at the end of August. This year’s theme, ‘Potential Unleashed’, focuses on how IT professionals and software developers can unlock the capabilities in their existing IT investments and innovate with the tools and resources they have today. [ + ]

High storage costs, long backup windows, litigation risk and inefficient e-discovery plague companies, survey finds. [ + ]

2degrees has enabled 3G voice and mobile broadband services across its network after an extensive program undertaken in partnership with Huawei. The 3G build covers the entire 2degrees network in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. [ + ]

Pacnet, a provider of telecommunication services, and Pacific Fibre have announced plans to jointly build the Pacific Fibre cable, a city-to-city, low-latency subsea fibre-optic cable that will boost connectivity between Australia, New Zealand and the US. [ + ]

At a recent roundtable in Sydney, Scott Totzke, Security VP for Research In Motion (RIM), discussed the need for smartphone vendors to simplify security to improve usability for end users, the need to build security in from the start of the production cycle to maximise the efficiency of mobile devices and how trust is essential for the future development of mobility. [ + ]

NEC Australia has formed an exclusive ICT partnership with Australia’s two aged care peak bodies - Aged Care Association Australia (ACAA) and Aged & Community Services Australia (ACSA) - to advance the use of cloud computing in the aged care industry. [ + ]

AMP, one of Australia’s leading wealth management companies, has selected one of CSC’s growing number of cloud computing services after an extensive evaluation. [ + ]

The College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has announced the signing of an agreement to work with Telstra to launch e-health applications on a web-hosted service platform. [ + ]

Optus has been named a mobile and satellite supplier to the Northern Territory Government with mutiple contracts to supply mobile and satellite services. [ + ]

NSN has announced plans to acquire Motorola’s GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, LTE, and WiMAX wireless assets for $1.2 billion. NSN will acquire several R&D centres as part of the deal, and approximately 7500 Motorola employees are expected to be transferred to NSN. The companies expect to complete the acquisition by the end of 2010, subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approval. [ + ]

Optus first to acquire new 2100 MHz spectrum licences to increase 3G mobile capacity in regional Australia. [ + ]

According to Ericsson estimates, based on industry information, the five billionth mobile subscription was added on 8 July. Statistics include: two million additions per day, more than 500 million 3G subscriptions and a predicted 50 billion connected devices by 2020. [ + ]