Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, has announced the results of its Board elections following today’s Annual General Meeting.
Einsteinz Communication's founder and managing director, Pru Quinlan was invited to speak about Digital PR at the 2009 Digital Marketing & Media Summit in November 2009. During her presentation she debunked a few PR myths, defined digital PR and observed that despite the hype around digital PR, the reality is that 90% of conversations about products and services still take place offline!
Strengthening its external storage portfolio for small business Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced several additional BlackArmor® product offerings: the BlackArmor® NAS 220 and BlackArmor® NAS 110 network storage servers, the BlackArmor® WS 110 external drive workstation and the BlackArmor® PS 110 portable drive. Joining the existing network attached storage line up – the BlackArmor® NAS 440 and BlackArmor® NAS 420 storage servers – these new solutions share the same suite of robust backup applications for business professionals and home office use.
Australian technology distributor IPL Communications today announced it will distribute Panasonic Systems Products from 1 December 2009.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale data services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructure providers.
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced the Brocade NetIron® CER 2000 Series compact multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) router, featuring industry-leading hardware-based routing capacity, in a compact 1U form factor: 24 or 48 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports with two 10 GbE uplinks. Unmatched in its combination of throughput, compact size, and efficiency, the NetIron CER 2000 enables service providers to more broadly, rapidly, and cost-effectively deploy high-margin business virtual private network (VPN) and IP voice, video, and data services while helping to reduce their cost per megabit.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that it has appointed Distribution Central as a strategic distribution partner in Australia for its enterprise Ethernet and IP networking products. Brocade selected Distribution Central for its ability to efficiently deliver networking solutions to channel reseller partners, as well as their extensive knowledge, skills, and expertise in the networking and storage industry.
The Board of Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Lee as the organisation’s new independent Chair, effective from 1 January 2010.
IAB Australia today released its updated Universal Ad Package Guidelines The new proposed standards will bring Australia into line with most other countries internationally and have been updated to make the media planning and buying process easier for media owners, agencies and advertisers. The guidelines have been signed off by the IAB’s Standards and Measurement Council which includes representatives from major publishers and the MFA and have been shared with the AFA. The guidelines are now open to comment from the industry until Wednesday 25th November 2009.
Australia’s online advertising market has recorded continued growth in the most challenging economic period to impact the Australian media industry in decades, according to figures released today by IAB Australia in its Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER). The Report, which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), showed that online advertising expenditure in Australia for the quarter ending 30 September 2009 was the highest ever recorded, totaling $466 million.
Continuing its commitment to helping people preserve, protect and enjoy their digital content, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced a new backup appliance that completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process. Unlike most backup utilities, the new Seagate® Replica™ backup appliance is a complete PC backup system, which automatically and continuously stores up-to-date copies of everything on a PC, including installed applications, operating system, e-mail, pictures, music, movies, Internet bookmarks and settings. Available in two configurations, the Seagate Replica solution delivers seamless backup for either a single PC or multiple PCs in a household.
iPhone is set to become the mobile phone brand of choice for Australians, according to new research by Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research.
Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions, today unveiled its new FreeAgent Theatre+™ [Plus] HD media player, the next generation home theatre solution designed to instantly and easily connect your digital media library to your home entertainment system.
Clemenger has been declared the winner of Creative Showcase 4.1, Australia’s best free online award for creativity in digital advertising for its campaign, Vodafone’s “Make the Most of Now”. The campaign was chosen by a panel of 10 esteemed judges from the industry who praised its cutting-edge creativity and innovation within the online advertising sector.
Just three months after its official Australian launch, mcm media’s Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) has proven its reach and audience appeal, delivering over five million streams per month and more than 100 million streams since the technology was first tested. The streams have been delivered through syndicated partner sites including News.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, APN’s regional sites and Yahoo!7 Music, as well as mcm media’s own Take 40, The Hot Hits and movideo sites.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) and Thales© today announced the integration of Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS) with the Brocade encryption SAN switching solutions. The combination of TEMS, the industry’s first standards-based encryption key management appliance for storage, and the Brocade Encryption Switch protects enterprise data and helps organizations meet growing compliance demands. The solution cost-effectively simplifies the storage encryption process by eliminating the need for storage professionals to deploy multiple storage encryption systems and helps ensure safe and reliable data access.
IAB Australia today announced that Alex Littlejohn, managing director of Adconion will join the IAB Australia Board for a one year term commencing in November 2009. Mr Littlejohn will represent the interests of the non‐founding members on the Board. The announcement followed a competitive nomination and voting process during which IAB Australia members were called upon to select their preferred representative.
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) announced today that it has selected Renaissance Brands as a Brocade Alliance Partner Network Distributor for New Zealand. Renaissance was selected based on its ability to efficiently deliver both storage area network (SAN) and IP networking solutions to channel reseller partners, as well as its extensive knowledge, skills, and expertise in the networking industry.
DViCO today announced that it will not be seeking endorsement from Freeview (Australia). Although the products currently carry the Freeview UK logo and all marketing material currently displays this, it will remove that logo from materials and packaging used in Australia to avoid confusion.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today reported financial results for the quarter ended October 2, 2009 of 46.3 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $2.66 billion, gross margin of 24.5%, net income of $179 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.35. The financial results for the quarter include $10 million of purchased intangibles amortization, $46 million of restructuring and a write down of long-lived assets of $64 million. The aggregate impact of these items is $120 million or approximately $0.23 per share.