Just three months after its official Australian launch, mcm media’s Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) has proven its reach and audience appeal, delivering over five million streams per month and more than 100 million streams since the technology was first tested. The streams have been delivered through syndicated partner sites including News.com.au, The Daily Telegraph, APN’s regional sites and Yahoo!7 Music, as well as mcm media’s own Take 40, The Hot Hits and movideo sites.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) and Thales© today announced the integration of Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS) with the Brocade encryption SAN switching solutions. The combination of TEMS, the industry’s first standards-based encryption key management appliance for storage, and the Brocade Encryption Switch protects enterprise data and helps organizations meet growing compliance demands. The solution cost-effectively simplifies the storage encryption process by eliminating the need for storage professionals to deploy multiple storage encryption systems and helps ensure safe and reliable data access.
IAB Australia today announced that Alex Littlejohn, managing director of Adconion will join the IAB Australia Board for a one year term commencing in November 2009. Mr Littlejohn will represent the interests of the non‐founding members on the Board. The announcement followed a competitive nomination and voting process during which IAB Australia members were called upon to select their preferred representative.
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) announced today that it has selected Renaissance Brands as a Brocade Alliance Partner Network Distributor for New Zealand. Renaissance was selected based on its ability to efficiently deliver both storage area network (SAN) and IP networking solutions to channel reseller partners, as well as its extensive knowledge, skills, and expertise in the networking industry.
DViCO today announced that it will not be seeking endorsement from Freeview (Australia). Although the products currently carry the Freeview UK logo and all marketing material currently displays this, it will remove that logo from materials and packaging used in Australia to avoid confusion.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today reported financial results for the quarter ended October 2, 2009 of 46.3 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $2.66 billion, gross margin of 24.5%, net income of $179 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.35. The financial results for the quarter include $10 million of purchased intangibles amortization, $46 million of restructuring and a write down of long-lived assets of $64 million. The aggregate impact of these items is $120 million or approximately $0.23 per share.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that Christchurch City has deployed one of New Zealand’s first major metropolitan local area networks (LAN) offering businesses, schools and health organisations affordable optical fibre connections.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released a vision of the network architecture required to deliver a broad range of network, application and content services to end users in its paper, NBN Reference Architecture: High Level Architecture Options for the NBN.
DViCO today announced the Australian launch of one of the most advanced high definition (HD) jukeboxes on the planet, the TViX M-6600N Personal Video Recorder (PVR). The TViX M-6600N is the only PVR to offer full 1080P HD and HDMI 1.3 out. It’s also the world’s first PVR to include built-in 802.11n wireless capability which allows streaming of audio and video content from any PC on the home network. The TViX M-6600N will be distributed exclusively in Australia by Also Technology.
Australian technology distributor IPL Communications today announced the new compact LifeSize® Passport™ video conferencing system, ideal for SMEs, SOHO and teleworkers, will land in Australia in November.
The ABA’s Digital Watchdog Committee, formed following the launch of the ABA Web Audit Service in July, held its inaugural meeting on September 30, 2009. The committee members debated the standards by which online publishers are audited, and how web audience data is reported, and has subsequently released new measurement Rules and Guidelines.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, announced today that it will be the exclusive representative for the advertising sales in Australia of Reuters.com, the world’s leading news and financial information website.
PIPE International’s submarine cable, PPC-1, which has been built from Sydney to the telecommunications interconnection hub of Guam, was officially switched-on today at a special event at Sydney’s Australian Technology Park. The successful completion of Australia’s first independent submarine cable was two years in the making and cost $200m.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today named Dr Paul Brooks as its new NBN Lead Consultant. Dr Brooks succeeds Gary McLaren who has been appointed Chief Technology Officer of NBN Co.
Niche publishers have raced to take advantage of the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s Web Audit Service, with the number of Australian online sites submitting for audit more than doubled in the last month with over three million unique browsers per month now audited. In an industry first, sites that have met the stringent measurement rules prescribed by the ABA now appear in the Nielsen Market Intelligence screens with a green verification tick to indicate they are ABA compliant and their traffic is being accurately recorded.
As a result of the NBN and proposed restructuring of telecommunications in Australia, Australian businesses will have opportunities to manage more efficiently, develop new applications, attract new customers, offer better service & widen their markets.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ: STX) today announced an update to its expected financial results for its first fiscal quarter of 2010, which ends October 3, 2009.
Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced worldwide availability of the Seagate Secure™ Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option across its portfolio of enterprise-class hard drives. Products with the Seagate Secure option include: Savvio™ 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation™ and Cheetah™ 15K.7 drives.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) announced today it is expanding its global Alliance Partner Network with new channel programs designed to attract storage and IP networking channel resellers with more selective and profitable professional services, support, and warranty offerings.
Australia’s online advertising agencies Sapient Nitro, JWT Australia and ZenithOptimedia and Soap Creative have dominated the IAB’s fifth annual MIXX Awards in New York, collecting eight awards between them. The agencies, which were all successful at IAB Australia’s awards in July 2009, faced fierce global competition for the Awards which honour innovation and impact.
