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.

Telstra and Huawei carry out Australia’s first LTE demo at 1800 MHz.

Fortinet has published its June 2010 Threat Landscape report which showed that new variations of the Sasfis botnet have entered the malware Top 10 list.

The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) will launch ASX Net, a fully managed, low-latency, high-capacity network solution for connectivety to the Australian financial market, in September 2010 with the fibre provided by PIPE Networks.

The need for a high-performance multimedia contact centre has never been greater as an annual survey reveals 1 in every 2 consumers who are dissatisfied with their call centre experience are likely to switch to a competitor.

This week, Cisco published its third annual Visual Networking Index forecast for global IP traffic. Cisco projects video will represent 91% of 2014’s global consumer IP traffic, driven by HDTV, 3DTV, VoD, internet video and P2P growth. Cisco predicts a visual four-fold traffic increase by 2014 and claims to have solutions.

Australia’s love affair with social networking has gone mobile, with customers using their mobiles to visit Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in record numbers over the past 12 months, according to new figures released today by Telstra.