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Toshiba plans to buy 30% of the production capacity in its semiconductor venture with SanDisk to increase its own output. The companies will own an equal share of the remaining 70%.

Northrop Grumman has won a seven-year $91m contract from the Arkansas Department of Human Services to provide IT systems support.

AT&T has been awarded a 10-year $600m contract from the State of Tennessee to develop a unified network infrastructure providing next-generation services across all government agencies.

Ericsson has collaborated with Intel to extend its 3G mobile broadband technology for notebooks and pocket devices.

CEOs are hoping advances in Australia's laggard broadband infrastructure will lead to an increase in financial activity.

NextiraOne is providing the communications infrastructure behind law firm Blake Lapthorn’s move to its new flagship office in Southampton.

ALMOST 80 per cent of Australian organisations have experienced a data breach in the past five years, a survey says.

IBM is working on a Web-conferencing platform dubbed OpusUna, which offers all participants the ability to collaborate using the same Web pages and features audio and video.The AJAX-based technology was discussed by IBM officials during a briefing at the AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday. "Really, what we're looking at is how I extend the whole concept of AJAX to allow multiple-user interactions," said David Boloker, CTO in the IBM Emerging Internet Technology software Group."It's all about a next-generation collaboration capability where you're really looking at how people interact with one another in a very different way," Boloker said.OpusUna enables participants to collaborate and communicate from within the same browser space, incorporating widgets, audio, and video cameras to display themselves on the screen. IBM envisions, for example, collaboration on patient care via sharing of medical images. Financial traders also could collaborate from aroun

YAHOO plans to reduce its global work force by at least 10 per cent as third-quarter net income tumbled 64 per cent.

BUSINESSES have warned the federal Government to avoid further delays in introducing the national high-speed broadband network.