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Super taxes proposed by Papua New Guinea will hit Telstra in its role as owner of Digicel, with the telco having to pay out about $36 million if the tax comes into force.

Ratings agency S&P Global Ratings says its assessment of Telstra's business risk, following its acquisition of Digicel's business in the South Pacific region, remains largely unchanged.

Telstra has teamed up with the Australian Government to acquire Digicel's business in the South Pacific region for US$1.6 billion (A$2.14 billion), plus an additional US$250 million depending on how the business fares over the next three years.

Global payments technology firm Visa claims it has used its artificial intelligence to prevent more than $560 million in fraud affecting Australian businesses during the 2019-20 financial year.

The deployment of the 14,000km Hawaiki trans-Pacific cable system has reached the point where it is in the final stages of being loaded into the two cable-laying ships.

New Zealand cable company Hawaiki Cable and SIL Long Term Holdings, the investment vehicle of Sir Eion Edgar, have signed an agreement to build the Hawaiki submarine cable system.

Software-defined network (SDN) provider Cyan has partnered with Kordia New Zealand to market and support Cyan technology solutions throughout New Zealand, Australia, the South Pacific Islands and Papua New Guinea.

Global network security vendor Fortinet has strengthened its management team in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region with the appointment of a Director of Engineering.

IBM has secured a multi-million dollar deal with Coca-Cola Amatil to streamline CCA’s South Pacific operations, including in Australia.

California-based Application Networking vendor, A10 Networks, has appointed a Managing Director to lead its Australian and New Zealand business.

A team of students from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies and Faculty of Science has won the South Pacific Regional Collegiate Programming Contest.

The Melbourne-based, Australian owned technology solutions provider, Avalanche Technology Group, has appointed, for the first time, a chief technology officer to lead a team to identify technology and business opportunities for expanding the group's companies in the Australian, New Zealand and South Pacific regional market.

Unisys has secured a $30 million deal with McDonald's to provide end-user IT support services to its restaurants across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

Sybase 365, a subsidiary of Sybase, Inc. (NYSE: SY), the global leader in mobile messaging and mobile commerce services, today announced the expansion of its messaging destinations in the South Pacific over its international SMS hub. Sybase® SMS 365 now enables BlueSky American Samoa, Pactel in Tuvalu & Cocos Islands and Timor Telecom, to exchange in and outbound SMS with 900 mobile operator partners and 4.5 billion subscribers around the world. Joining the hub later this year is Solomon Island's newest mobile operator, bemobile Solomon Islands.

On July 11, 2010, a total solar eclipse will occur in the southern Pacific Ocean, including Easter Island, Cook Islands, several French Polynesian atolls, including Tuamotu, and the southern tip of Argentina and Chile, in South America.

Hewlett Packard has appointed a new man to drive its sales effort for enterprise servers and storage systems in the South Pacific region.