Adconion Media Group’s brand marketing platform, Joost™ has introduced the iRoll® interactive pre-roll unit from Innovid to its product portfolio, offering brands a powerful way to integrate and combine numerous digital assets and applications for online campaigns.

Brocade® (NASDAQ GS: BRCD) announced today that Richard Deranleau, Brocade Chief Financial Officer, has left the company effective as of June 20, 2011 to pursue other interests and that Dan Fairfax has been appointed Brocade’s new Chief Financial Officer.

Research agency Millward Brown has been chosen as one of Australia and New Zealand’s best employers, receiving one of eleven accolades from a field of more than 200 companies shortlisted by consultancy Aon Hewitt.

Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) is delivering hard disk drive storage for the world’s first handheld tablet computers with hard drives. The ARCHOS G9 8- and 10-inch tablets, announced today in Paris, feature the Seagate Momentus® Thin hard drive, a speedy notebook drive with a super-slim 7mm profile.

Adam Ross of Mindshare is seeing red after attending a presentation from Adconion Media Group’s branded entertainment division, RedLever last month.

With intense competition and more than 130,000 attendees at Interop Tokyo 2011, Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) won top distinction for its industry leading Brocade MLXe core router and Brocade VDX Data Center Switch. The Brocade MLXe Series router was selected from more than 300 highly competitive networking solutions for the Special Prize: Infrastructure Building Products and Grand Prix: ShowNet Product Section. Additionally, the Brocade VDX Ethernet fabric switch also won the Grand Prix: People’s Choice for the show.

Each year at the Cannes Lion Awards the advertising industry judges its own craft, but what does the average Australian think?

DDB Sydney and Nomad have dominated the finalist list for the 2011 IAB Australia Awards which was announced today with both agencies snaring four finalist spots each across the 12 categories. Droga5 has secured three finalist spots and a further 22 agencies have also been named by IAB Australia as contenders in the Awards which reward the most innovative and effective online advertising and marketing campaigns run in Australia over the last twelve months.

Following a competitive tender, Dimension Data and McAfee have been appointed by CenITex to provide an integrated threat and vulnerability management solution to improve end-to-end information security efficiency and optimise information security management across the organisation. The value of the contract has not been disclosed.

AD2ONE has significantly expanded its advertising inventory in New Zealand, with the global digital agency signing exclusive partnership agreements with Findata, Bookabach and Grooveshark.

Soap Creative has been crowned the latest Creative Showcase winner for its work on “The World’s Biggest Pac-Man” campaign it developed for Microsoft IE9 and PAC-MAN. Creative agency, The FARM, picked up second place for its work on Moccona Romantics, while Tequila Digital scooped third place for its work on “Micra Lane” campaign for Nissan Australia.

Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that Micron21 Pty Ltd, provider of geographically redundant, fault-tolerant IP networking services designed for the most mission-critical hosting environments, has dramatically expanded network capacity at its two Melbourne data centres to pave the way for a new generation of high-availability services.

Today Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) introduced the GoFlexAccess™ mobile device app for its GoFlex® Home network storage system. Now available for download from the iTunes Store® and Android Market, this easy-to-use application can be found by searching for "Seagate" or "GoFlex" in either storefront using your computer or the app store on your iPad®, iPhone®, iPod touch® or Android compatible mobile device. The new GoFlexAccess App delivers a fast and easy way to retrieve photos, movies, music and documents from anywhere while on-the-go with network access.

Communications Alliance and Communications Day are proud to announce the finalists in the communications industry’s premier awards, the ACOMMS.

Communications Alliance today welcomed the release of the draft report of the ACMA Reconnecting the Customer inquiry, which signals clearly the ACMA’s continued willingness to work with industry to achieve the common objective of improved customer service, complaint handling and customer satisfaction in the Australian telecommunications sector.

Communications Alliance today welcomed the Government’s Digital Economy Strategy as a constructive step toward ensuring Australians derive the benefit they deserve from their investment in the creation of a National Broadband Network.

Global digital group AD2ONE today announced two significant new partnerships, representing advertising opportunities on the MumZone and PGA Australia websites. Together they extend the reach of the Ad2One advertising network by more than 200,000 unique visitors per month.

Communications Alliance today welcomed the announcement by Telstra of a range of new tools to enable its mobile data customers to better manage their monthly spend.

IAB Australia today announced that The Nielsen Company has been appointed the sole and exclusive preferred supplier for the provision of online audience measurement services in Australia. The appointment which is for an initial two-year term, follows an eight month tender and review process which was strongly supported by the MFA and AANA and overseen by TressCox Lawyers

The total percentage of network devices which have passed last-day-of-support (LDoS) has dropped dramatically from 31% in 2009 to 9% in 2010. However, the total amount of technology late in the obsolescence phase remains high, with the percentage of devices in late stage end-of-life sitting at a substantial 47%. This could be evidence that more organisations are choosing to sweat assets up to, but not beyond, the highest risk lifecycle stage.