Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today announced the Momentus® Thin drive, the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. At a wafer-thin 7mm in height – 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop hard drives – the Momentus Thin drive gives original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators significantly lower cost-per-gigabyte storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, enabling a new breed of entry-level thin laptops.
Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, today announced the appointment of Sara Law as Client Service Director for Sydney, effective 1 January 2010.
Global digital group, AD2ONE has reported strong growth this year in spite of the challenging market conditions and announced today it has recruited three new staff for its Sydney office to satisfy the growing demand for its services. The new hires include Mark Mangune, who joins AD2ONE in the newly created position of Operations Manager from Bebo, Sevag Sarkissian has been appointed as a Business Development Executive and Amelia Stott as a Team Administrator.
Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced the Seagate® Pulsar™ drive, the first product in its new enterprise solid state drive (SSD) family. Designed for enterprise blade and general server applications, the Pulsar drive uses single-level cell (SLC) technology, delivers up to 200GB capacity, and is built in a 2.5-inch small form factor with a SATA interface. The Pulsar drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support.
Millward Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, today announced the promotion of Daren Poole to the newly-created position of Chief Client Officer (CCO) for Australia, effective 1 January 2010.
AD2ONE, the global digital group, announced today that it has secured the exclusive advertising sales for share trading destination Egoli.com.au. Previously managed by Sensis MediaSmart, Egoli.com.au is in the top eight* of Australian stocks and shares websites due to the quality and timeliness of its trading news, views and ideas.
Australian mobile internet solutions provider, MIA International, has developed a mobile website for global climate change alliance TckTckTck, ahead of the crucial UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen on December 7th. World leaders are due to meet at the Summit with hopes of reaching a new global climate change treaty, to replace the Kyoto Protocol which is due to expire in 2012.
Flossie Media Group has made some significant changes to its business model announcing that from January 2010 it will no longer be offering display advertising. Instead it will be shifting its focus to one-to-one communication including solus emails, newsletters, content syndication and integration into social media.
iPrimus Marketing and Product General Manager Andrew Sims this afternoon dismissed Telstra’s newly announced Broadband plans noting that they are still well behind the average industry plan.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, has announced the results of its Board elections following today’s Annual General Meeting.
Einsteinz Communication's founder and managing director, Pru Quinlan was invited to speak about Digital PR at the 2009 Digital Marketing & Media Summit in November 2009. During her presentation she debunked a few PR myths, defined digital PR and observed that despite the hype around digital PR, the reality is that 90% of conversations about products and services still take place offline!
Strengthening its external storage portfolio for small business Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced several additional BlackArmor® product offerings: the BlackArmor® NAS 220 and BlackArmor® NAS 110 network storage servers, the BlackArmor® WS 110 external drive workstation and the BlackArmor® PS 110 portable drive. Joining the existing network attached storage line up – the BlackArmor® NAS 440 and BlackArmor® NAS 420 storage servers – these new solutions share the same suite of robust backup applications for business professionals and home office use.
Australian technology distributor IPL Communications today announced it will distribute Panasonic Systems Products from 1 December 2009.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released a paper proposing a definition for wholesale data services to be provided by the National Broadband Network and other broadband infrastructure providers.
Brocade (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced the Brocade NetIron® CER 2000 Series compact multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) router, featuring industry-leading hardware-based routing capacity, in a compact 1U form factor: 24 or 48 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports with two 10 GbE uplinks. Unmatched in its combination of throughput, compact size, and efficiency, the NetIron CER 2000 enables service providers to more broadly, rapidly, and cost-effectively deploy high-margin business virtual private network (VPN) and IP voice, video, and data services while helping to reduce their cost per megabit.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that it has appointed Distribution Central as a strategic distribution partner in Australia for its enterprise Ethernet and IP networking products. Brocade selected Distribution Central for its ability to efficiently deliver networking solutions to channel reseller partners, as well as their extensive knowledge, skills, and expertise in the networking and storage industry.
The Board of Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Lee as the organisation’s new independent Chair, effective from 1 January 2010.
IAB Australia today released its updated Universal Ad Package Guidelines The new proposed standards will bring Australia into line with most other countries internationally and have been updated to make the media planning and buying process easier for media owners, agencies and advertisers. The guidelines have been signed off by the IAB’s Standards and Measurement Council which includes representatives from major publishers and the MFA and have been shared with the AFA. The guidelines are now open to comment from the industry until Wednesday 25th November 2009.
Australia’s online advertising market has recorded continued growth in the most challenging economic period to impact the Australian media industry in decades, 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 quarter ending 30 September 2009 was the highest ever recorded, totaling $466 million.
Continuing its commitment to helping people preserve, protect and enjoy their digital content, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today introduced a new backup appliance that completely eliminates the need to manually learn, manage, or dedicate any time to the backup process. Unlike most backup utilities, the new Seagate® Replica™ backup appliance is a complete PC backup system, which automatically and continuously stores up-to-date copies of everything on a PC, including installed applications, operating system, e-mail, pictures, music, movies, Internet bookmarks and settings. Available in two configurations, the Seagate Replica solution delivers seamless backup for either a single PC or multiple PCs in a household.