Communications Alliance CEO John Stanton has opened the organisation’s 2011 Conference, Broadband & Beyond – Driving Australia’s Digital Productivity, with a call for a coordinated digital economy roadmap to ensure Australia achieves full value from its investment in the NBN.
AD2ONE’s one year old New Zealand office has had a fantastic first twelve months and will achieve a growth rate of more than 122 per cent this quarter compared to the same quarter in 2010. The booming Auckland office has won a series of new business deals and will now be providing exclusive advertising access to Allrecipes.com, Priceme.co.nz, Swellmap.co.nz, Weathermap.co.nz and Golf.co.nz.
Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today announced that it has shipped more than 1 million self-encrypting laptop and enterprise hard drives. Sales of the Seagate® hard drives with built-in encryption continue to surge as more computer makers offer the drives to protect against unauthorized access to sensitive data, more independent software vendors team up with Seagate to provide the management capabilities required for company-wide installations of self-encrypting laptop PCs, and more of the drives win U.S. government certifications:
Soap has snared top spot in the first Creative Showcase for 2011, winning with its “100 Days of Summer” campaign for Foxtel. Profero picked up second place in Australia’s best free online digital advertising creativity competition for its work on Pizza Hut’s “Feed a Friend” campaign and Tequila rounded out the awards securing third place for its work on an augmented reality campaign for Coopers Clear. The winners, who were chosen by a panel of esteemed industry judges and announced at the Creative Showcase lunch in Sydney yesterday, are showcased at www.creativeshowcase.net.au.
Online advertising is on track to achieve its $3 billion milestone by 2012 according to IAB Australia, who today reported that total online advertising expenditure for 2010 was $2.265 billion. The IAB Australia Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER), which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers, noted year-on-year growth of $393.25 million representing 21 percent overall growth from the 2009 calendar year.
The Top 10 Celebrities in Australia by Millward Brown Cebra ranking are:
Lara Bingle and Ben Cousins are a match made in heaven and Stephanie Rice and Tiger Woods are dream dates according to similarities in personality, as revealed in Millward Brown’s first ever Australian Cebra (celebrity-brand) study.
Hugh Jackman and Kylie Minogue have been named as Australia’s most powerful celebrities in Australia’s first-ever celebrity + brand (Cebra) research by Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has been appointed by Allrecipes (www.allrecipes.com.au), a Readers Digest Association (RDA) brand and the largest food site in the world, as its sales partner for Australia and New Zealand.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has won the exclusive online advertising business for online travel company, Viator.com in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore. Viator.com, which is focused on destination activities and experiences, will join AD2ONE’S successful travel and leisure portfolio, which also includes Lonely Planet, Expedia, the Wotif Group including Lastminute.com.au, Travel.com.au and Wotif.com; as well as PleaseTakeMeTo.com and HotelClub.
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that it has introduced several significant enhancements to the Brocade® Alliance Partner Network (APN) program and Global Education offerings to help channel partners capitalise on Ethernet fabric-based technology opportunities. These partner investments include the introduction of the Virtualised Fabric Partner Specialisation and the new Brocade Certified Ethernet Fabric Engineer (BCEFE) Certification designed to support partners in the delivery of Ethernet fabric technologies, including the award winning Brocade VDX™ 6720 Data Center Switch.
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced Ravi Saxena as regional director for its Service Provider business in Asia Pacific (APAC). Saxena will be based in Singapore and will be responsible for driving the company’s service provider growth and market-penetration strategies throughout the region. Brocade offers a broad portfolio of high-performance, scalable, carrier-class networking solutions that meet the stringent requirements of the always-on service provider business environment.
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.
