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.

Connection Research and ComputersOff.ORG have announced a cooperative agreement to work together on green IT accreditation and market analysis.

WiMAX forum calls for increased collaboration and across-the-board interoperability to enable flexible deployments of WiMAX.

Silicon chips may soon be able to transmit and process information at extremely high speeds using light, with help from a University of Sydney invention.

CrimTrac gets cleaner, greener way of securing law enforcement data within the Canberra Data Centre.

Australian viewers join the 3D revolution with the rugby league State of Origin available in 3D to home viewers.

Australian-owned telecommunications product developer and manufacturer Warren & Brown Technologies (WBT) has become the latest company to join the Industry Partner Program at the University of Melbourne’s Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES).

UXC Getronics Australia has completed its integration into the UXC Group with the launch of significant changes to its client service offering and a re-branding of the company. The new entity, UXC Connect, will specialise in the delivery of ICT services and Integration solutions for business sustainability and will leverage the entire UXC group of ICT companies.

The e-health records project has been given a boost in the federal government Budget to the tune of $466.7 million over two years but what will this achieve and is it a sensible use of funds?