Ericsson and Polycom will collaborate to deliver high-definition visual communications services to businesses and consumers. [ + ]

4G wireless broadband provider vividwireless has announced the results of the first Australian trial of superfast mobile wireless broadband - TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution). [ + ]

The Australian Synchrotron and Monash University have selected IBM technology for a new research facility. [ + ]

Economic development across the Asia-Pacific region is causing unprecedented demand on a key, shared resource - Internet Protocol addresses. [ + ]

Global Switch will build an additional $300 million fully fitted data centre in Sydney having received Part 3A Major Projects approval from the NSW Department of Planning. The 34,000 m² new data centre - Sydney 2 - will be adjacent to Global Switch's existing data centre in Sydney, which is already the largest facility of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere with 42,000 m² of space. [ + ]

With $119 million already committed, the HP next-generation data centre to be built at St Marys, Sydney, will increase data centre compute capacity available to HP's customers by 12-fold. [ + ]

The new Senior School Centre at Pymble Ladies’ College was opened on Saturday 29 January 2011 by the Governor of NSW, Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir. [ + ]

Motorola Solutions has signed an AU$14.4 million contract with Queensland Gas Corporation (QGC), a BG Group company, for the supply of radio communications infrastructure for QGC’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in southern Queensland. [ + ]

Tyco Electronics has completed the acquisition of ADC Telecommunications, which means manufacturer ADC Krone on the Central Coast of NSW in Australia will be now known as Tyco Electronics. [ + ]

Research from amaysim, an Australian mobile service provider, reveals that two-thirds of mobile phone users believe they’re paying too much for their service. Industry figures forecast that close to a staggering $20 billion will be spent on mobile phone services this year. [ + ]

NICTA and the NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) have reaffirmed a research agreement under which they are developing new systems to improve the management of traffic incidents on the state’s roads. The agreement is part of the RTA’s ongoing commitment to improve incident responses, consistent with the Moroney Report on the F3 traffic incident in April 2010. [ + ]

Brisbane-based telco Comscentre is offering Queensland and Victorian businesses help to restore communication services damaged or wiped out by the floods. [ + ]

With hundreds of Queensland businesses affected by flooding, IT companies have collaborated to get these businesses back online. [ + ]

The number of mobile broadband subscribers is likely to reach 1 billion this year, up from the current 500,000 million, as users' consumption of media and the internet is changing. [ + ]

Wi-Fi is incredibly convenient - but what about security asks AVG (AU/NZ), who warns of the dangers of public Wi-Fi and provides some handy tips to protect yourself. [ + ]