Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today began global shipments of the world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive – Barracuda® XT, a 7200RPM product featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface. The 3.5-inch desktop drive, the industry’s first to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface, meets the capacity demands of gaming, digital video-environments and other storage-hungry desktop computing applications while delivering the highest performance in its class.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today it has further strengthened its industry-leading, next-generation Brocade DCX® Backbone family with the introduction of two new modular solutions. The Brocade FX8-24 Extension Blade which is designed to connect two or more data centres to enhance business continuity and disaster recovery; and the Brocade FCoE10-24 Blade, which provides Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) capabilities for server I/O consolidation in the data centre.
Analysis released today by Millward Brown Optimor reveals that the BrandZ Portfolio, created from the world's top 100 most valuable brands, is recovering faster than the S&P 500 as a whole. The BrandZ Portfolio is now worth 28 percent more than the S&P 500, and it has returned to profit ahead of the market.
On 15th September 2009, the Communications Alliance hosted a media conference call following the NBN Industry Connection Forum #3 in Brisbane. The call featured Anne Hurley, CEO, Communications Alliance, Gary McLaren, NBN Lead Consultant, Communications Alliance and Mike Quigley, Executive Chair, NBN Co Limited.
NBN Co today named industry engagement as one of its key responsibilities at the Communications Alliance Industry Connection Forum in Brisbane.
The chief executives of a number of leading Australian telecommunications companies and internet service providers today reunited to call for a pro-competitive approach to upgrading Australia’s national broadband infrastructure.
Following a competitive pitch, AD2ONE, the global digital group, has won the exclusive third party online advertising rights for Coles Online, Australia’s leading online grocery, fresh food and liquor retailer. With contracts being signed this week, AD2ONE will start work with Coles Online on September 1st 2009.
Communications Alliance is delighted to announce that Mike Quigley, Executive Chair of NBN Co Limited, will participate in the upcoming series of NBN Industry Connection Forums. The Forums will take place in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne in September.
Flossie.com, Australia’s first female-centric masthead network has continued its expansion, announcing today that Mia Freedman’s popular “Mama Mia” site has appointed Flossie to manage all its site advertising. The announcement brings the total number of Australian sites under the Flossie masthead network to 48.
Collaboration is critical to enhancing customer service in the communications industry according to speakers at the Communications Alliance Customer Service Summit in Melbourne today.
The Board of Communications Alliance today announced Chief Executive Officer Anne Hurley’s decision to step down from the role in 2010.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today welcomed NBN Co Limited as its newest member.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, says its NBN works program has attracted over 80 participants and generated robust discussion from a broad spectrum of the sector.Priority project teams are well advanced and initial outcomes are expected to be discussed at a soon to be announced third round of NBN Industry Connection Forums.
Primus would like to advise that its Melbourne Data Centre power upgrade scheduled for Saturday 15th to Sunday 16th August 2009 has been successfully completed. The entire upgrade, which was planned over the last six months was achieved in a seamless manner.
Media buyers, agencies and publishers are a step closer to auditing nirvana with the launch of Brand Summary screens by the Audit Bureaux of Australia (ABA). The screens, which are available to all ABA members, provide a single view of print, digital, website and email newsletter circulation figures, allowing media buyers to accurately compare and consider credible audited data.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry today announced the publication of an industry Guideline for Prepaid Calling Cards.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, has won three new clients and will now provide exclusive online advertising access to the world’s leading independent stock market research house, Fat Prophets, the eBay owned pioneer of online comparison shopping, Shopping.com and the world's first, independent, web browser-based instant messaging (IM) service and now a popular IM aggregator, eBuddy. All three clients were won in competitive pitches recently.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced a pilot of its new online compliance and training tool for customer service excellence.
The Assess, Comply, Deliver (ACD) Tool will assist the communications industry to self-assess compliance with customer service and complaint handling obligations outlined in the Telecommunications Consumer Protections (TCP) Code. It will also provide training tips that can be incorporated into existing staff training programmes.
Australia’s online advertising market has again beaten advertising market trends, recording continued strong, double digit growth year on year of 18.5 percent for the full financial year according to figures released today by IAB Australia in its Online Advertising Expenditure Report (OAER). The Report, which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), showed that online advertising expenditure in Australia for the financial year ending June 30 2009 exceeded $1.8 billion and totalled $453 million for second-quarter 2009 (three months ended 30 June 2009).
Today Primus Telecom announced that a new era of faster broadband has begun in Tasmania with the activation of its transmission on Basslink’s fibre-optic cable to Tasmania. Primus Telecom’s increased backhaul to Tasmania using the new Basslink cable will increase interstate capacity, while introducing increased competition on the important communications route from mainland Australia to Tasmania.
