4G wireless broadband provider vividwireless will be the first in Australia to trial mobile wireless broadband, TD-LTE (Time-Division Duplex Long Term Evolution from Huawei that can deliver peak speeds of up to 100 Mbps.

More than half of Australian businesses will adopt social media to boost customer service in 2011 a RightNow survey found.

Ovum's Principal Analyst Roy Illsley comments on the change of culture at HP when it comes to R&D.

Bankwest has signed up to be the first customer in Fujitsu's Perth advanced data centre.

A Microsoft study finds cloud computing saves energy for users.

iiNet has opened an R&D lab to drive innovation.

Mobile, data-stealing malware and Malware-as-a-Service top the list in the M86 Security Predictions 2011 Report

National freight company Northline has announced a $5 million, five-year contract with Brennan IT to overhaul its technology systems. Brennan IT is providing Northline with hosted servers, a national private network linking all Northline offices and a unified telecommunications infrastructure that allows for portable personalised numbers and videoconferencing.

NetSuite has attracted a large number of new clients to its ERP cloud service from SAGE.

Energy Australia goes with smart grid infrastructure to improve reliability.

Huawei demonstrates IP/MPLS and MPLS-TP interoperability in EANTC's tests.

Australian organisations are doing well when it comes to security but could do better.

Indian outsourcing company MphasiS sets up on University of Wollongong campus.

Software from NICTA spin-out company Open Kernel Labs has secured one million mobile handsets.

As national broadband company Internode this week passes the 12-month milestone for its public trial of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the company expects 2011 will be “crunch time” for the internet.