Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced the scheduled review of the Deployment of Mobile Phone Network Infrastructure Industry Code (ACIF C54:2004) and invited comments from interested parties.
IPL Communications today announced the availability of Siemens OpenScape Office MX V2 , the first all-in-one unified communication (UC) platform with an unmatched array of capabilities pre-integrated on a single platform.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today announced the appointment of John Stanton as the organisation’s new Chief Executive Officer.
Dimmi, Australia’s first real-time online restaurant reservations service and the nation’s largest online restaurant booking network saw 50,000 covers booked via its online booking engine in just three months. 66 percent of those online bookings were made when restaurants were least equipped to handle bookings, with 23 percent booked while restaurants were closed and 43 percent made during peak service hours.
Primus Telecom today announced its partnership with NBN Co Tasmania and its participation in the proof of concept launch of the National Broadband Network in Tasmania, held today in Mornington, Tasmania. At the event, Senator Stephen Conroy referred to Primus Telecom as one of the first service providers to be NBN ready.
Entries are now open in the IAB Australia 2010 Awards. Creative and media agencies; and marketers Australia wide are being invited to submit entries to the awards, which this year feature the theme of ‘Unlock your imagination’. The awards celebrate the best Australian interactive advertising campaigns conducted during the preceding year. Submissions are now being accepted online at www.iabawards.com.au and close on 5 May 2010.
Australian mobile internet solutions provider, MIA International, has developed the first iPhone Application for the Australian digital marketing event, ad:tech. The ad:tech iPhone “App” will guide the event’s attendees through the program at the two day conference, which runs from 16 - 17th March at the Sydney Conference & Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour, Sydney. The ad:tech App is already available from the Apple App Store.
IPL Communications today announced the availability of the most advanced IP telephone on the market, the Panasonic KX-NT400 IP Telephone, and the premium Panasonic IP Conferencing Phone, the KX-NT700.
Gordon Ramsay’s first Australian restaurants will open for reservations today, Wednesday, March 3 at 9.00am (Australian EST) via Dimmi, Australia’s first real-time online reservations service.
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) today announced that it powers the world’s top three largest Internet Exchange Points (IXP) with its performance-driven and highly energy-efficient switches and routers. IXPs serve as Internet traffic carriers that interconnect Internet Service Providers (ISP) and subscribers. The three largest top-tier IXPs globally, Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX), and London Internet Exchange (LINX), all reply upon Brocade networking solutions due to its unique combination of performance, reliability, efficiency and scalability. Brocade IXP switching and routing solutions are one of the industry leaders in density, wire-speed performance at ultra-low latency, while consuming significantly less energy and dissipating less heat than comparable solutions.
Brocade® (Nasdaq: BRCD) today announced that the Brocade ServerIron® ADX Series of Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) now leads the industry with the highest-performing Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) acceleration performance, surpassing the next-closest competitive offering by nearly two times, according to independent third-party test results from The Tolly Group. The SSL acceleration and offload capability of the ServerIron ADX Series helps maximise the performance, utilisation and security of Web- and IP-based application infrastructures and services (ranging from e-mail to e-commerce) – which can result in significant revenue gains, IT cost efficiencies and broader security.
Dynamic Logic, the online research business operated by Millward Brown, today announced the results of its AdReaction survey of Australian online habits and attitudes to advertising. One of the more surprising findings was that over 90 percent of Australian social network users notice advertising on social networking sites yet on average, 64 percent of these people do not believe it impacts their experience of the site.
Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) is now shipping its 3.5-inch Constellation™ ES drive, the industry’s first 2TB enterprise-class drives featuring 6Gb SAS, to customers worldwide. Designed specifically for multi-drive nearline storage environments, the Constellation ES drive has been qualified by leading enterprise OEMs and system builders who demand storage solutions of the highest capacities with increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security that their customers demand. The Constellation ES drive leverages Seagate’s 30 years of leadership in meeting large enterprise customer needs in product development, qualification, and support.
In a demonstration of its continued support of the print community, Quark has announced a special offer that allows eligible printers in Australia and New Zealand to join the QuarkAlliance partnership program at no cost. Adobe® Service Network (ASN) members are invited to take advantage of a complimentary QuarkAlliance membership which offers benefits including priority technical support and a free copy of QuarkXPress® 8.
New consumer research released today by Millward Brown reveals that Trust and Recommendation “TrustR” are key ingredients to brand success. Colgate is the top performing brand on this metric in Australia.
Brocade® (NASDAQ: BRCD) today unveiled the Brocade FCX series of 10/100/1000 Mbps with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) uplink top-of-rack (ToR) switches that are purpose-built to provide a broad set of capabilities — including data centre-class performance, flexibility and simplified management. This powerful addition to the Brocade portfolio offers industry-leading price/performance value to help customers reduce overhead costs and quickly scale with the pace of consolidation.
New consumer research released today by Millward Brown reveals that Trust and Recommendation “TrustR” are key ingredients to brand success. Colgate is the top performing brand on this metric in Australia. The full report is available exclusively to WPP clients, however, a summary version is provided here.
IAB Australia today announced that its Measurement Council is drafting guidelines and best practice for the application of auto-refresh following a review of the practice, measurement and reporting of auto-refresh of web content in the Australian market. The guidelines, which are being drafted in collaboration with the MFA and AANA, are expected to be published for industry wide comment by the end of March 2010.
Dimmi, Australia’s first real-time online restaurant reservations service has proven to be a big hit amongst Aussie diners with over 50,000 diners using its service to make their restaurant reservations online, since it was launched late last year. Dimmi allows diners to make an instantly confirmed reservation at almost 1,000 of the country’s leading restaurants across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Diners can book via one of Dimmi’s booking partners or a restaurant’s own website. More details can be found at www.dimmi.com.au.
Communications Alliance, the peak body for the Australian communications industry, today released a draft overview of technical standards for the National Broadband Network.
