The “Rock the Boats” iPrimus music stage at Waterfront City will bring a great collection of free live music from Friday 5th to Sunday 7th of February. Rock, blues, jazz, pop and country music will all be featured from some of Australia’s best live artists, with the addition of some live indie acts that have recently been discovered through the “Kool Skools” project. The iPrimus stage will be set in amongst hundreds of boats on display by the Melbourne International Boat show.
mcm media’s music video streaming service Digital Entertainment Network (DEN), has increased its hold on the Australian free legal music video streaming market with the announcement today of its partnership with ninemsn. Under the terms of the two year deal, ninemsn will use DEN to stream music videos from its ‘Music Fix’ site, as well as promoting it throughout the ninemsn network.
Dynamic Logic, the online research business operated by Millward Brown, today announced the appointment of Adam Hayes as Manager, Digital Solutions.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that it has combined the best of two technical support portfolios and created a comprehensive new offering that gives all Brocade customers, whether they operate SAN or IP networks, more value, flexibility and choice. In addition to providing a variety of hardware and software service level agreement (SLA) options, the integrated technical support portfolio offers valuable residency support services for mission-critical networking environments. It also enables greater consistency across the entire networking infrastructure, helping customers streamline their support operations and escalation activities, as well as simplify their contract management processes.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has responded to strong demand for its digital advertising sales services in New Zealand by opening a new office in Auckland this week. It is the firm’s sixth international city location and follows the opening of its Melbourne office last year and its Singapore office in 2008. Lisa Ison, formerly of MSN New Zealand has been appointed as AD2ONE’s Country Manager to firmly establish its presence in New Zealand.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today reported financial results for the quarter ended January 1, 2010 of 49.9 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $3.03 billion, gross margin of 30.5%, net income of $533 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.03. The financial results for the quarter include $10 million of purchased intangibles amortization expense or approximately $0.02 per diluted share.
Sound Alliance, one of Australia's leading diversified digital businesses, has bolstered its senior ranks with the announcement of two key appointments.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, will host the fourth series of NBN Industry Connection Forums in February.
Communications Alliance has released a draft handbook of practices and guidelines for the installation and operation of the NBN at customers’ homes, businesses and other service sites.
Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the worldwide leader in hard drives and storage solutions, unveiled the BlackArmor® PS110 USB 3.0 portable external hard drive performance kit for notebook computers
Primus Telecom announced today that it is in full support of the Federal Government’s policy to block online child pornography and welcomed the opportunity to work with the Government to further develop and implement its policy.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the Momentus® Thin drive, the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. At a wafer-thin 7mm in height – 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop hard drives – the Momentus Thin drive gives original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators significantly lower cost-per-gigabyte storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, enabling a new breed of entry-level thin laptops.
Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, today announced the appointment of Sara Law as Client Service Director for Sydney, effective 1 January 2010.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has reported strong growth this year in spite of the challenging market conditions and announced today it has recruited three new staff for its Sydney office to satisfy the growing demand for its services. The new hires include Mark Mangune, who joins AD2ONE in the newly created position of Operations Manager from Bebo, Sevag Sarkissian has been appointed as a Business Development Executive and Amelia Stott as a Team Administrator.
Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced the Seagate® Pulsar™ drive, the first product in its new enterprise solid state drive (SSD) family. Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar drive uses single-level cell (SLC) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch small form factor with a SATA interface. The Pulsar drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support.
Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, today announced the promotion of Daren Poole to the newly-created position of Chief Client Officer (CCO) for Australia, effective 1 January 2010.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, announced today that it has secured the exclusive advertising sales for share trading destination Egoli.com.au. Previously managed by Sensis MediaSmart, Egoli.com.au is in the top eight* of Australian stocks and shares websites due to the quality and timeliness of its trading news, views and ideas.
Australian mobile internet solutions provider, MIA International, has developed a mobile website for global climate change alliance TckTckTck, ahead of the crucial UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen on December 7th. World leaders are due to meet at the Summit with hopes of reaching a new global climate change treaty, to replace the Kyoto Protocol which is due to expire in 2012.
Flossie Media Group has made some significant changes to its business model announcing that from January 2010 it will no longer be offering display advertising. Instead it will be shifting its focus to one-to-one communication including solus emails, newsletters, content syndication and integration into social media.
iPrimus Marketing and Product General Manager Andrew Sims this afternoon dismissed Telstra’s newly announced Broadband plans noting that they are still well behind the average industry plan.
