BlackBerry Mobile Fusion launches.
Research in Motion has launched BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, its mobile device management (MDM) platform for BlackBerry, Apple iPhone and Android devices.
Mobile Fusion targets the growing number of government organisations and enterprises that have allowed Android and iOS devices into the corporate network under bring-your-own-device policies...

Complaints by Microsoft and Apple.
EU antitrust regulators opened two investigations on Tuesday into Motorola Mobility after Microsoft and Apple accused the company of setting unfair fees for use of its patents in their products.
"The Commission will investigate, in particular, whether by seeking and enforcing injunctions against Apple's and Microsoft's flagship products such as iPhone, iPad, Windows and Xbox on the basis of patents it had declared essential to produce standard-compliant products, Motorola has failed to honour its irrevocable commitments made to standard setting organisations," the European Commission said in a statement...

More than 600 cuts in three months.
A former SingTel engineer has been jailed for 15 months for cutting fibre optic cables more than 600 times over a three-month period last year.
Channel News Asia reported that the cables belonged to OpenNet, the network builder of Singapore's ultrafast broadband network...

Develops guidelines for deals worth up to $80,000.
Federal agencies may be able to use a multi-use list (MUL) of suppliers instead of more stringent panel arrangements when sourcing cloud services worth up to $80,000, under plans unveiled by AGIMO this week...

Develops guidelines for deals worth up to $80,000.
Federal agencies may be able to use a multi-use list (MUL) of suppliers instead of more stringent panel arrangements when sourcing cloud services worth up to $80,000, under plans unveiled by AGIMO this week...

Shoots for thin-client domination.
Dell has revealed plans to buy thin client and desktop virtualisation maker Wyse for an undisclosed sum.
The vendor said that Wyse's products would beef up its existing desktop virtualisation portfolio...

Accelerated roadmap fuels Amazonian speculation.
Global data centre giant Equinix has announced it will bring expansion plans for its Sydney facility forward by six months to meet strong demand for data centre space.
The second phase of SYD3, which was scheduled to go live for customers by March 2013, will now be available by September 2012, according to the data centre company’s Australian managing director Tony Simonsen...

Ordered to construct compliance program.
The full Federal Court has held Google liable for misleading advertisements published on its AdWords service, overturning a September decision that cleared the search giant of wrongdoing.

Chief Justice Patrick Keane, Justice Peter Jacobson and Justice Bruce Lander this morning ordered Google to pay the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's appeal costs and potentially costs from the original hearings last year...

Google is now taking Canvas2D a step further by enabling the new Chrome 18 web browser to leverage hardware-based GPU acceleration.
"We've enabled GPU-accelerated Canvas2D on capable Windows and Mac computers, which should make web applications like games perform even better than a pure software implementation," Google explained on the Chromium [url=http://blog...

Research In Motion Limited (RIM), announced its full year fiscal 2012 financial results last week and the news is not good. The Blackberry maker announced revenue and income losses as well an organizational shakeup that will see their CTO, COO and company co-founder Jim Balsillie all leave the company...

Privacy commissioner outlines risks for agencies.
Acting Victorian Privacy Commissioner Anthony Bendall has called on cloud providers to adopt a 'privacy by design' mindset when creating services for government consumption.
Bendall told the Local Government Forum in Melbourne last month (pdf) that government adoption of cloud services is "somewhat inevitable", given take-up by private businesses...

Miners join Finance and Government as most constrained sectors.
Almost one in three Australian firms eyeing cloud computing are saddled with IT policies or requirements that ban data from going offshore, according to Telsyte.
The survey of 260 chief information officers found 29 percent have some kind of restrictions on data location, while 36 percent have no restrictions placed on them...

Trades Open Text for Objective.
The Federal Department of Customs and Border Protection has awarded a $5.1 million contract to migrate to a new enterprise content management platform.

The department will phase out its use of an Open Text platform and shift to version eight of Objective's enterprise content management platform...

Motorola Mobility case forces hand.
Microsoft is moving its European software distribution to the Netherlands from Germany after being caught up in patent disputes with mobile phone and tablet maker Motorola Mobility.
"We would have preferred to keep our European distribution centre in Germany, where it has been for many years...

Java row to go to trial.
Oracle and Google have reached an "irreconcilable impasse" in settlement negotiations in a high-profile intellectual property lawsuit and the companies' lawyers should prepare for trial, a US magistrate judge has ruled...

To deliver web, mobile apps and back-end improvements.
J.P. Morgan’s Australian securities services division is building new mobile applications and accounting technology in a two-year, $30 million project to improve provision of data to institutional investors...

Signs outsource agreement.
Queensland Rail has awarded Logica a $33 million, five-year contract to manage the first phase of a transition away from IT infrastructure currently shared with privatised freight arm, QR National.

Government-owned Queensland Rail has now established independent ICT capability and is working with Logica on phase one of the project to move its infrastructure from three data centres shared with QR National into new facilities by June 30 this year...

Not just a consumer play.
Analyst firm Gartner has urged businesses to plan their enterprise networks in consideration of the National Broadband Network rollout to take advantage of its promised ubiquity and low prices.

In research released last month, telco analyst Geoff Johnson slammed enterprise thinking that the NBN was a purely consumer play as “unhelpful and short-sighted corporate behavior”...