Warren and Brown Technologies, an Australian manufacturer of optic fibre products, has won an equipment contract with NBN Co worth up to $60 million over five years. [ + ]

Face recognition technology that improves the speed and accuracy of identifying faces in CCTV footage has won NICTA an international ICT award. [ + ]

Telcos will increase their focus on online platforms for telecommunications services in an attempt to combat costs in a competitive market, according to analyst firm Ovum. [ + ]

Microsoft’s mobile OS, Windows Phone, will continue to gain traction in the Asia Pacific business smartphone market over the next five years, ultimately rivalling the market penetration of RIM’s BlackBerry in 2016. [ + ]

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are likely to last longer than usual during the upcoming holiday season, particularly against companies with e-commerce presences. [ + ]

With the launch of its Windows Phone-based Lumia, Nokia is making an attempt at forcing its way back into the smartphone market. [ + ]

Wholesale telecoms suppliers are failing to deliver high-quality products and services to their customers and, as a result, are ill-equipped to deal with intense market competition. That’s the message from a new Ovum report, Wholesale Customer Survey 2011.

The majority of Australian enterprises will introduce consumer media tablets in the coming year, in order to address the consumerisation of IT and cloud computing, according to a new report from analyst firm IDC.

The market for business software in Australia and New Zealand will grow to a value of US$7.3 billion in 2015, according to a new report from analyst firm Ovum. The resultant interest from software vendors could lead to better software for buyers.

Increased interest in the cloud across all sizes of business will continue to fuel the cloud computing service market in Australia, with revenues in Australia set to quadruple by 2015.

ISP Internode became the first company to deliver the fetchtv IPTV service over the NBN, when it showcased the service at the nation’s first broad-acre NBN deployment located at Doonside, in Sydney’s west.

The federal government has released a consultation paper on the proposed new penalties for unruly telcos, and asked for public input on the paper. The paper details new penalties to be specified in infringement notices issued under the Telecommunications Act 1997.

Most companies are not taking action to make their operations more sustainable, believing such ‘green’ activity to be a burden on the business, and are missing out on the benefits of sustainability in the process.

Although much hoopla has surrounded Steve Jobs’ resignation as CEO of Apple, his exit is unlikely to have an immediate effect on the company, according to one analyst firm.

Despite an overwhelming belief that solid state disks (SSD) are reliable, more than half of SSD users report experiencing data losses while using the technology.