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US-based data centre solutions company, Digital Realty, is planning to invest in and develop two new data centres in Melbourne’s west. Digital Realty will invest $150 million in the project which will directly employ up to 33 staff.

The Melbourne centres will be the first fully pre-leased facilities built by Digital Realty in Australia and will position the company to support Victorian, Australian and Asia-Pacific customers.

Digital Realty focuses on delivering customer-driven data centre solutions by providing secure, reliable and cost-effective facilities that meet each customer’s needs. Its customers include many Fortune 500 and high-profile multinational corporations across multiple industries, including ICT, cloud service providers, manufacturing and financial services.

SilverStripe opens Melbourne office

New Zealand technology company SilverStripe has set up its Australian headquarters in North Melbourne, bringing up to 50 new IT jobs to the state over the next four years.

App offers search and rescue boon

Edith Cowan University (ECU) students have developed a new app which transforms a smartphone into an emergency beacon at the push of a button.

New approach to GPS targeted

Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology are developing new more reliable Global Positioning Systems (GPS) using camera technology and mathematical algorithms that would make navigating a far cheaper and simpler task.

Digital Reality reveals Victorian plans

Data solutions specialist Digital Reality has announced its plans to invest in and develop two new data centres in Melbourne, bringing an estimated economic benefit of around $365 million to the state.

Government introduces R 18+ legislation

The Federal Government has introduced legislation before parliament that, if passed, will see the introduction of an R 18+ category for video games.

Victorian carbon capture and storage project funded

Victoria will be home to one of Australia’s fastest supercomputers and the world’s greenest supercomputer, the IBM Blue Gene/Q, which will be housed at the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) hosted by the University of Melbourne, and is aimed at advancing the study of human disease.

ACCC declares wholesale ADSL service

The ACCC has 'declared' the wholesale ADSL service under section 152AL of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010, arguing that this will promote the long-term interests of end-users of fixed-line broadband internet services throughout Australia.

Evans to lead SKA charge

Federal Minister for Science and Research, Senator Chris Evans, will lead an Australian delegation to China and Italy to promote Australia’s bid to host the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

NBN selects satellite provider

NBN Co has signed a contract with Space Systems/Loral for the delivery of two Ka-band satellites and associated tracking, telemetry and control systems, as part of the National Broadband Network (NBN) long term satellite service.

ACCC calls for comment on supplementary NBN SAU paper

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released a supplementary consultation paper inviting further comments on the Special Access Undertaking (SAU) lodged by NBN Co on 5 December 2011.

The SAU sets out a range of regulatory commitments that NBN Co proposes shall apply until 30 June 2040.

“The SAU is a complex document that, if accepted, will be an important part of the telecommunications access regime that applies to NBN Co for a long period of time,” ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.

This supplementary paper continues the ACCC’s public consultation on the SAU that commenced in December 2011. A number of interested parties provided submissions to that paper and the ACCC has had regard to these submissions in preparing the supplementary paper.

“At this stage of the process, the ACCC is seeking comment on a broad range of issues. Given that this is the first SAU submitted under the new telecommunications access regime, and in light of the proposed term of the SAU and the scale of the NBN investment, this should come as no surprise,” Mr Sims said.

“It is not unusual for the ACCC to seek views on a wide range of matters in its preliminary analysis of an undertaking.”

Key issues on which the ACCC is seeking views include:

Internode blitzes customer satisfaction

Internode and its new parent company iiNet have taken out first and second place respectively in Roy Morgan’s Internet Service Provider Customer Satisfaction survey.

Telstra posts booming results

Telstra has delivered its results for the six months leading to December 2011, showing strong growth in operating revenue, EBITDA and net profit.

IT firms to target Asian markets from Sydney

Two international digital content developers, London-based Lost Boys International (LBi) and Silicon Valley-based ZINFI Technologies, have announced they will open offices in Sydney.

ACMA to impose competition limits on digital spectrum auction

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has directed the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to determine procedures to impose competition limits on the sale of spectrum in the upcoming digital dividend auction.