Broadband has taken a significant step forward as the number of subscriber lines passed the 500 million mark in July 2010. [ + ]

Businesses are not thinking strategically in the digital world. Despite Australian businesses continuing to take up new applications like social media marketing, very few have developed a digital business strategy to make the most of opportunities, according to findings from the Sensis e-business Report. [ + ]

The world’s first commercial 1800 MHz LTE/EPC network has been launched in Poland using Huawei’s E2E solution. [ + ]

Ericsson signs a new five-year frame agreement with Australia’s national broadcaster, the ABC. [ + ]

Clarity, an Australian software company dedicated to simplifying the operation and management of telecommunications networks, has joined the Industry Partner Program at the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).   [ + ]

Motorola has partnered with Australasian Fire and Emergency Service Authorities Council (AFAC) to promote smarter emergency services communications [ + ]

The ADC Krone fibre-optic connectivity portfolio has been aligned with the new 802.3ba Standard in telco and data-centre markets. [ + ]

University of Sydney and Monash University will work with China’s Tsinghua University and global academics to improve water quality. [ + ]

Sixty per cent of data centre managers plan to increase technology spending. [ + ]

Fujitsu's research report Green IT: Global Benchmark contains findings of the first multicountry survey to determine the maturity of green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India. [ + ]

Fujitsu's research report Green IT: Global Benchmark, contains findings of the first multi-country survey to determine the maturity of Green IT practices and technologies in large IT-using organisations in Australia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and India.   [ + ]

Integrated, end-to-end infrastructure solution from HP and VMware to deliver faster time to cloud computing by year end. [ + ]

The ACS 2010 Remuneration Survey finds a 3.3% salary increase overall while 45% of private sector employees received no salary increase. [ + ]

Integrated, end-to-end infrastructure solution from HP and VMware to deliver faster time to cloud computing by year end [ + ]

Research finds 72% of Australian IT decision-makers are on the journey towards the cloud with expectations for private cloud to become the new ‘normal’ for IT infrastructure. [ + ]