The Device Digital division of Australian mobile internet solutions provider, MIA International has developed a special iPhone app for GlaxoSmithKline’s Children’s Panadol brand, which is aimed at new mums. The new app helps mums with breast feeding, soothing their baby and also provides them with the correct dosage of Children’s Panadol products while they are out and about.
Millward Brown Firefly, the qualitative research division of Millward Brown, today announced the appointment of Peter Foster as Senior Account Director for Firefly in Melbourne.
Primus Telecom today announced the first business customer had been connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Scottsdale, Tasmania, scoring another first for Primus for the NBN.
Dimension Data, a specialist IT services and solution provider, has announced a significant Australian recruitment drive, with plans to recruit more than 170 additional personnel over the next six months. This follows the addition of 80 new staff last quarter.
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) and McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced that they have completed the next phase of a strategic partnership created to deliver a broad set of fully interoperable, simplified network-based security solutions through joint channel partners. McAfee and Brocade have developed a series of jointly designed, end-to-end network security solutions with advanced functionality, including fully automated threat response and enforcement, firewall load balancing and a broad set of intrusion prevention capabilities.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has won the contract to exclusively sell online advertising for Jamie Oliver’s hugely popular website in Australia and New Zealand. JamieOliver.com joins AD2ONE’S successful consumer category, which already includes grocery shopping related sites including Coles Online and Gourmet Ads. Advertising for JamieOliver.com was previously handled in-house until AD2ONE was awarded the business in both Australia and New Zealand following a successful pitch.
ZenithOptimedia has been crowned 2010 IAB Awards Best of Show for its Lion Nathan “Tooheys Extra Dry - Six Beers of Separation” campaign. Announced at the IAB Awards ceremony last night, the campaign won the new Branded Content category and trumped a record number of entries to scoop the prestigious Best of Show title and secure its entry into the 2010 US IAB MIXX Awards.
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today reported financial results for the quarter ended July 2, 2010 of 46.8 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $2.66 billion, gross margin of 27.4%, net income of $379 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.76. The financial results for the quarter include $6 million of purchased intangibles amortisation expense, $16 million of restructuring charges, $3 million expense (Other income/expense) for the May 2010 termination of Seagate’s revolving credit facility offset by a $6 million recovery of previously impaired long-lived assets and a $50 million income tax benefit due principally to valuation allowance adjustments related to deferred tax assets. The aggregate impact of these items was a $31 million increase to net income or approximately $0.06 per diluted share.
Brocade (Brocade®) (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that Bank of China is utilising Brocade host bus adapters (HBAs) to improve server connectivity within its data centre. The bank will deploy 200 Brocade HBAs to improve server connectivity and performance in the IT infrastructure that supports the organisation’s innovative and fast-growing banking and insurance businesses.
The winners of the prestigious 2010 Communications Alliance & CommsDay Awards were announced last night at the Annual ACOMM Awards Dinner which featured Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Communications, Broadband and the Digital Economy, as keynote speaker. The industry’s top honour, the 2010 Communications Ambassador Award, was won by Telstra’s Deena Shiff.
Australian mobile solutions provider, MIA International today revealed that it has provided a publishing solution to deliver a customised version of the BigPond® portal for Telstra’s T-Hub®; Australia’s first device that combines a traditional home phone with advanced mobile phone-type applications. This is the first home phone device project for MIA and marks the company’s strategic move towards developing solutions for all personal devices, not just mobile phones.
In a world first, Australian company Noggin has secured Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ (EAL2+) certification for its OCA incident management software under the Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (Common Criteria or CC) standard. This makes OCA the only incident and emergency software in the world to be certified to this level.
Dimension Data has published its Network Barometer report showing that although local networks show fewer vulnerabilities than those globally (33% compared to 37% globally), things are still precarious:
The explosion in demand for IP enabled devices means that networks feel the strain. Effective management is critical to protect vulnerabilities and many Australian networks are still at risk.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced the scheduled review of the Mobile Premium Services Code and called for comments from interested parties.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced the availability of the Release 2 NBN End User Premises Handbook.
iPrimus today announced its first fully operational pioneer customer has been connected to the National Broadband Network in Midway Point, Tasmania.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has reported record year-on-year growth of 84 per cent for the first half of 2010 compared to the same period in 2009. This considerably outstrips the recently announced digital industry average of 17 per cent growth[1]. As a result of this astounding success, the firm is now looking to recruit new staff to satisfy the growing demand for its services across Australia and New Zealand.
Communications Alliance today released for public comment an Issues Paper to guide the Review of the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code. The move coincided with the announcement of the appointment of Professor Michael Fraser to the Steering Group.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has partnered with award winning viral and social media marketing company, The 7th Chamber to extend its online advertising reach into social media. The 7th Chamber which specialises in making clients’ content popular on YouTube and Facebook is recognised as one of the most successful branded content seeding agencies in the world with a client roster including Aston Martin, Xbox, Disney, Nike, Proctor & Gamble, BMW, Nokia, Paramount and MTV.
Putting more terabytes in the hands of consumers worldwide, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX), the leader in hard drives and storage solutions, today announced the world’s first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive. Available immediately, the 3TB FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Desk external hard drive helps to meet the explosive worldwide demand for digital content storage in both the home and the office. With 3TB of capacity people can store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or countless hours of digital music.
