Briefly noted

-- Energex Ltd., an electric utility in Brisbane, Australia, has inked a contract worth A$7 million (US$5.18 million) with IT services firm TUSC Computer Systems Pty. in Melbourne. TUSC, a unit of LM Ericsson Telephone Co., will implement a workforce management system from Mobile Data Solutions Inc. in Richmond, British Columbia, to automate Energex's field force operations.

-- Wipro Ltd. in Bangalore, India, has agreed to acquire Saraware Oy, a Rovaniemi, Finland-based company that offers design and engineering services to telecommunications carriers, for '25 million (US$31 million). Wipro said the acquisition will give it skills related to radio networks and secure mobile communications platforms that conform to the European-developed Terrestrial Trunked Radio standard, or Tetra.

-- ICICI OneSource Ltd., a business process outsourcing vendor in Mumbai, India, is setting up two service delivery centers in Northern Ireland. The company last week said that it plans to open the first center in Belfast next month and begin operations at the second facility by year's end. The two centers are expected to create a total of about 1,000 jobs over the next two years, according to ICICI OneSource.