Niche publishers have raced to take advantage of the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s Web Audit Service, with the number of Australian online sites submitting for audit more than doubled in the last month with over three million unique browsers per month now audited. In an industry first, sites that have met the stringent measurement rules prescribed by the ABA now appear in the Nielsen Market Intelligence screens with a green verification tick to indicate they are ABA compliant and their traffic is being accurately recorded.
As a result of the NBN and proposed restructuring of telecommunications in Australia, Australian businesses will have opportunities to manage more efficiently, develop new applications, attract new customers, offer better service & widen their markets.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today announced an update to its expected financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2010, which ends October 3, 2009.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced worldwide availability of the Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. Products with the Seagate Secure option include: Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™ and Cheetah™ 15K.7 drives.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today it is expanding its global Alliance Partner Network with new channel programs designed to attract storage and IP networking channel resellers with more selective and profitable professional services, support, and warranty offerings.
Australia’s online advertising agencies Sapient Nitro, JWT Australia and ZenithOptimedia and Soap Creative have dominated the IAB’s fifth annual MIXX Awards in New York, collecting eight awards between them. The agencies, which were all successful at IAB Australia’s awards in July 2009, faced fierce global competition for the Awards which honour innovation and impact.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today began global shipments of the world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive – Barracuda® XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive, the industry’s first to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface, meets the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and other storage-hungry desktop computing applications while delivering the highest performance in its class.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today it has further strengthened its industry-leading, next-generation Brocade DCX® Backbone family with the introduction of two new modular solutions. The Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade which is designed to connect two or more data centres to enhance business continuity and disaster recovery; and the Brocade FCoE10-24 Blade, which provides Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities for server I/O consolidation in the data centre.
Analysis released today by Millward Brown Optimor reveals that the BrandZ Portfolio, created from the world's top 100 most valuable brands, is recovering faster than the S&P 500 as a whole. The BrandZ Portfolio is now worth 28 percent more than the S&P 500, and it has returned to profit ahead of the market.
On 15th September 2009, the Communications Alliance hosted a media conference call following the NBN Industry Connection Forum #3 in Brisbane. The call featured Anne Hurley, CEO, Communications Alliance, Gary McLaren, NBN Lead Consultant, Communications Alliance and Mike Quigley, Executive Chair, NBN Co Limited.
NBN Co today named industry engagement as one of its key responsibilities at the Communications Alliance Industry Connection Forum in Brisbane.
The chief executives of a number of leading Australian telecommunications companies and internet service providers today reunited to call for a pro-competitive approach to upgrading Australia’s national broadband infrastructure.
Following a competitive pitch, AD2ONE, the global digital group, has won the exclusive third party online advertising rights for Coles Online, Australia’s leading online grocery, fresh food and liquor retailer. With contracts being signed this week, AD2ONE will start work with Coles Online on September 1st 2009.
Communications Alliance is delighted to announce that Mike Quigley, Executive Chair of NBN Co Limited, will participate in the upcoming series of NBN Industry Connection Forums. The Forums will take place in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in September.
Flossie.com, Australia’s first female-centric masthead network has continued its expansion, announcing today that Mia Freedman’s popular “Mama Mia” site has appointed Flossie to manage all its site advertising. The announcement brings the total number of Australian sites under the Flossie masthead network to 48.
Collaboration is critical to enhancing customer service in the communications industry according to speakers at the Communications Alliance Customer Service Summit in Melbourne today.
The Board of Communications Alliance today announced Chief Executive Officer Anne Hurley’s decision to step down from the role in 2010.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today welcomed NBN Co Limited as its newest member.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, says its NBN works program has attracted over 80 participants and generated robust discussion from a broad spectrum of the sector.Priority project teams are well advanced and initial outcomes are expected to be discussed at a soon to be announced third round of NBN Industry Connection Forums.
Primus would like to advise that its Melbourne Data Centre power upgrade scheduled for Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th August 2009 has been successfully completed. The entire upgrade, which was planned over the last six months was achieved in a seamless manner.
