Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) and Avnet Technology Solutions, a solutions distributor of enterprise computing products, software and services, and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced the extension of their global distribution agreement to include Avnet Pacific Pty Ltd in Australia.

Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX) today reported financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2010. The company shipped 48.9 million disk drives and on a GAAP basis reported revenue of $2.7 billion, gross margin of 19.5%, net income of $150 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.31. On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes the net impact of purchased intangibles amortization and restructuring, Seagate reported net income of $159 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.33 for the quarter ended December 31, 2010.

Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that it has appointed Edgar Dias as regional director of Enterprise Business for Asia Pacific (APAC). Dias will be based in Singapore and will lead the company’s enterprise strategy and manage its direct-touch sales force.

Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) was recently awarded the “Most Important Enterprise IT Product for 2010” for the Brocade® VDX™ 6720 Data Centre Switches by CTO Edge, a publication of IT Business Edge. The Brocade VDX 6720 is the industry’s first true Ethernet fabric switch that is purpose-built for highly virtualised and cloud-optimised data centres.

Primus Telecom today implemented a dedicated hotline to help customers affected by the ongoing floods in Queensland, providing a single point of contact where people can divert phone lines to an alternative number, receive speedy restoration of phone and internet services and apply to have their bills waived for the flood affected times.

Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced Constellation.2™, the industry’s first 2.5-inch enterprise-class hard drive to reach a record 1TB capacity. The Constellation.2 drive is designed for server storage applications and offers a solid combination of high capacity, leading 6Gb/s performance, superior data integrity, and best-in-class low power consumption.

Driving a new era of how people consume their digital content, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, a new program to allow third-party companies to incorporate slots on their products to support removable GoFlex™ external hard drives.

Addressing the personal preferences of the Mac community, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced a new collection of GoFlex™ for Mac external drives designed to make it easy for those who use Mac OS X and Time Machine to backup, shuttle, or share their digital content.

Just two months after formally launching in Australia, Australian trading-technology company Brandscreen has announced that the number of Australian ad impressions in the new 'real time exchange' ecosystem has just passed 250 million per day. Brandscreen also announced that the number of websites now marketing their inventory through ad exchanges has passed 500,000 and is growing by approximately 10,000 sites per day on a global basis.

Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research, has selected Brocade MLXe Core Routers as part of a network infrastructure upgrade to support its high throughput computing (HTC) requirements and a data environment that exceeds 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) per year. According to the Web site, Whatsabyte.com, a single petabyte is equivalent to “20 million 4-door filing cabinets full of text.”

Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the availability of the Barracuda® Green hard drive, the industry’s highest performance eco-friendly 3.5-inch desktop drive for low-power personal computers, multi-drive home networking systems and external PC storage.

Media5 Corporation, a leading developer of advanced Communications over IP products and solutions, and IPL Communications, a leading value-added distributor of voice, video and data solutions, integration and support, have signed a Strategic Distribution Agreement for the Asia Pacific region . This agreement covers the full range of Media5 VoIP products and solutions.

Amnesia Razorfish’s ‘The Fresh Start Project’ has been declared the winner of Creative Showcase 5.3, Australia’s best free online award for creativity in digital advertising. Design Royale picked up second place for its work on Billabong’s ‘I Surf Because…’ campaign and Tequila rounded out the awards securing third place for its work on ‘Tomorrow when the War Began’. The winners, who were chosen by a panel of esteemed industry judges and announced at the Creative Showcase lunch in Sydney this week, are showcased at www.creativeshowcase.net.au.

Dimension Data today announced its plans to open a second Global Service Centre (GSC) in Australia. The centre, to be based in the Sydney suburb of North Ryde, will be established in partnership with the NSW Government with assistance from Industry and Investment NSW.

Noggin IT has appointed incident and emergency specialist Geoff Percival as Project Manager for OCA, the company’s next generation online incident management software.

The massive reduction in complaints to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) concerning Mobile Premium Services (MPS) shows that industry codes can be effective in improving customer service and complaint handling in the telecommunications industry, Communications Alliance said today.

IAB Australia has released updated draft industry-agreed standards for online advertising placements, known as the Universal Advertising Package (UAP) following six month’s review and industry consultation. The UAP now includes guidelines for rich media as well as standard ad units, which are the most commonly bought ad units.

Primus Telecom today officially launched Accella, its cloud-based Unified Communications (UC) suite for business, which incorporates video telephony. Designed to deliver business-grade voice, video and converged communications, which can be scaled to suit businesses of all sizes, Accella brings new levels of integration, functionality and potential cost savings to Primus’ customers.

Leading mobile advertising and publishing software developer, MIA has appointed Martin Ryan as its new Global CEO. His appointment supports the company’s strategy for ambitious global growth in the delivery of digital content to mobile devices.

A Cross Industry Group comprised of six of Australia’s leading online, marketing and advertising industry bodies has been formed to develop industry guidelines and standards for online behavioural advertising (OBA) in Australia. Working to develop a scheme that will apply consumer-friendly standards to OBA, the Cross Industry Group’s initiative is underway and proceeding quickly, examining a range of issues which will impact upon the final guidelines.