• Datacom sells Asian contact centre business for $A20 million

  Datacom Group will net $A20 million from the sale of its contact centre operations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Manila, Philippines.

• Communications spending to soar: IDC

  The Australian communications and media sector will spend $5.7 billion this year, up from $5.5 billion this year, IDC predicted in a market report released today.

• Telstra invests $4 million in cloud communications company

  Telstra completed a $4 million investment in Whispir that will help the cloud-based software company expand into Asia.

• Investment in mobile ERP increasing: IDC

  $1 in every $8 spent today on IT in Australia goes to mobile ERP, according to a white paper by IDC and mobile ERP vendor IFS. And investment in mobile is expected to increase, they said.

• Financial markets to spend $18 billion on IT in Asia-Pacific by 2015

  The Asia-Pacific financial markets industry is tipped to spend $US18 billion on IT by 2015, according to analyst firm Ovum.

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