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ICT recruitment specialist PeopleBank has booked its third annual increase in after-tax profit for the year to June 2008.

VODAFONE has sold 140 mobile towers and transmission sites in Australia to infrastructure management specialist Crown Castle.

HEALTH sector information technology provider IBA Health Group has reported an 36.35 per cent slide in annual net profit.

ERP vendor to the manufacturing sector QAD has reported a net loss of $1.43m for the second quarter 2009, against net income of $0.54m a year ago, on revenue up 8% at $69.5m. The loss was attributed to higher expenses and lower margins.

Business software developer Unit 4 Agresso has reported a 40% decline in net profit to 10.90m euros ($16.08m) for the first half of 2008, on revenue up 25% at 191.45m euros ($282.36m) boosted by the acquisition of financial software provider Coda for 157.8m pounds ($309m) earlier this year.

The launch of the Sun JavaFX Software Development Kit Preview edition is the first deliverable for desktop/browser applications in Sun Microsystems’ play for a share of the rich internet application developer market.

India-based IT services company HCL Technologies has opened a global development center in Sydney as part of its expansion plans for Australia and New Zealand.

Ericsson has deployed a solar-powered network for Cambodian mobile operator Star-Cell, combining a GSM base station and satellite transmission in a solar-powered site.

A highly popular Scrabble clone already pulled from Facebook in the United States and Canada has now been blocked throughout most of the world.

US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied
with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.