Snowy Hydro has expanded its presence in the National Electricity Market today with the $234 million acquisition of the largest gas-fired generation plant in NSW, Delta Electricity's Colongra Power Station. [ + ]

Communications Alliance has published a new industry guideline designed to facilitate the smooth migration of Australian telecommunications customers onto the NBN. [ + ]

Royal Philips is providing the government of the city of Madrid with 225,000 new energy-efficient lights to support its ambition of becoming a smart city. [ + ]

The inaugural Musculoskeletal Disorders Symposium (MSD) will be held at the Brisbane Exhibition and Convention Centre 3-4 March 2015. [ + ]

When the Iveco brand became part of CNH Industrial, it joined a global group producing vehicles and equipment for transport, agriculture and construction that meet the requirements of customers around the world. [ + ]

Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users were flat in the third quarter of 2014, according to IT researchers Gartner, Inc. However, sales of smartphones to end users grew 20.3% to reach 301 million units.

The Queensland Government's advertising campaign - Stay safer up there, switch off down here - urging people to turn off the mains power before entering a ceiling space has hit home with tradies and home occupiers alike. [ + ]

By next year, the world's mobile worker population is expected to swell to 1.3 billion, representing 37.2% of the total workforce. That's a lot of workers on the roads, in the field, making house visits and in remote locations from oil platforms in the Gulf to mines in the Arctic. [ + ]

Wireless, unified network infrastructure, unified management, security, the Internet of Things (IoT) and SDN in the enterprise will be some of the key trending topics in 2015, according to Allied Telesis's annual industry trends analysis and predictions for 2015. [ + ]

Powertec, Australian distributor of the Nextivity Cel-Fi 'smart repeater', has warned consumers about purchasing signal boosters online, claiming that they are most likely not approved for use on local networks. [ + ]

As many as 43% of workers aged 18-24 admitted to faking a sick day in the past 12 months, according to an online poll of 1035 Australian workers. [ + ]

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $445,000 funding for Reposit Power to trial an on-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) energy storage and trading system. [ + ]

The Fair Work Ombudsman is urging employers and employees to check the pay rates and entitlements that apply over Christmas and the New Year.

New laws are making it easier for licensed tradespeople to work across state borders. The laws that came into effect on 1 December promise to cut red tape for small business. [ + ]

The NBN Co will acquire elements of the Optus hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) cable network in a bid to hasten the rollout of the National Broadband Network, said NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow. [ + ]