An RMIT research team is looking for volunteers for focus groups that will discuss the impact of last year's critical telecom outage in SW Victoria, caused by the Warrnambool exchange fire. [ + ]

Mobile data traffic on New Zealand incumbent Telecom's network grew 91% year-on-year in August, with the average mobile user consuming 384 MB during the month. [ + ]

Two-thirds of Australian respondents to a SAP survey want to be able to conduct more mobile commerce transactions - the second highest of any mature market studied. [ + ]

Struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has received a tentative offer to buy out the company and take it private, but it may not be enough to save the iconic brand. [ + ]

Telstra will cut 1100 jobs by June 2014 as part of a restructure announced in May, the telco revealed yesterday afternoon. [ + ]

Over the decades IT has seen two distinct challenges: processing power and later network bandwidth. While they are both still important, storage space has become the dominant concern. [ + ]

Inmarsat has contracted Telecom NZ to provide and operate one of the two main Pacific Ocean gateway stations for its Global Xpress worldwide satellite broadband network. [ + ]

Non-profit BOS Australia will next month launch a mobile app to allow smartphone users to donate to and learn more about their cause of rescuing and rehabilitating endangered baby orangutans. [ + ]

BlackBerry announced it will cut 4500 jobs in an attempt to reduce operating expenditure, while also disclosing an expected almost $1 billion net operating loss this quarter. [ + ]

Six of the NBN Co's seven board members have offered their resignations, at the request of newly crowned Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull. [ + ]

Research firm Gartner expects mobile app store downloads to climb from 64bn in 2012 to 102bn this year, but this blistering growth rate won't continue forever. [ + ]

Under a state government program, Victorian companies can apply for vouchers worth up to $250K to support projects aimed at implementing cutting-edge technologies. [ + ]

Telecom NZ has used a submission to a government review of wholesale copper access pricing to argue for a regulated price at the bottom of the proposed NZ$37.50-NZ$42.50 range. [ + ]

Incoming Prime Minister Tony Abbott has revealed his new ministry, confirming who will oversee the ICT-related portfolios in the new Coalition government. [ + ]

The Australian retail sector is expected to spend just shy of $2 billion on ICT products and services this year, according to IDC Australia. [ + ]