Telecommunications provider, AAPT, has unveiled a 100 Gigabits (100G) per second network operating between Melbourne and Sydney.

AAPT has rolled out a new Cloud-based contact centre solution for its wholesale and business contact centres.

The $60 million sale of AAPT’s consumer division to iiNet (ASX:IIN) led to a loss of $NZ7 million ($A5.33 million) to Telecom NZ's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for the first half of the financial year, New Zealand's incumbent telco has reported.

Data centres and telecommunications across Brisbane are continuing to brace for impact as a result of continued flooding in the city’s CBD.

Australia’s major telcos remain unperturbed despite news that rival ISP, Internode, will be zeroing in on enterprise customers, after setting up its new Brisbane office.

The shortfalls of Google Apps will likely resonate with the inordinate amount of Microsoft shops in the industry. Years of investment in SharePoint developers, Exchange support teams and business processes built around the fickle aspects of Microsoft Office and its ribbon interface cannot be discarded easily. That’s ultimately where Microsoft’s strength is likely to reside. No matter when its Office 365 bundle is released, and despite numerous attempts to forge links between legacy applications and Google Apps, the complexity of a migration for a large organisation would likely be a headache most CIOs are eager to avoid. At least, that can be said for Coca Cola Amatil CIO, Barry Simpson.