Adoption of unified communications solutions (UC) by companies in the Asia Pacific region is low, although China leads the region in adoption with 35% of Chinese companies having already deployed a UC solution.

Cisco has unveiled its first Australian Customer Briefing Centre (CBC), a US$3 million Internet protocol networking technology showcase in its Sydney offices.

A flood of spam has infiltrated the Twitter microblogging community, with new Twitter scams ‘popping up right left and centre’ according to F-Secure, which says it discovered a fake Twitter account that tricks users into a Google scam by promising a free Range Rover.

Rittal, a worldwide provider of enclosure technologies, is set to unveil a series of ‘significant innovations’ at CeBIT Sydney designed to enable organisations to maximise the efficiency and security of their data centre operations.

A seemingly impossible sparkle of green light from a silicon chip has opened up a whole new field of possibilities for communications devices, including exponentially shrinking the hardware needed to guarantee high quality Internet connection, according to researchers at the University of Sydney.
 

Australian businesses, it seems, are making more rapid progress than their counterparts in other countries, particularly the UK, in planning ahead for the effects of carbon pricing.

Server shipments have plummeted in the Asia Pacific region as the economic crisis sweeping the region and the rest of the world worsens.

WebSpy, a global vendor of internet monitoring, analysis and reporting software, claims ‘remarkable success’ with implementation in February of an e-commerce initiative in a partnership with e-commerce service provider, Avangate.

Undeterred by current economic conditions, Extend Technologies has expanded its business into Western Australia, adding a new SAP partner for local organisations in the mid-to-large enterprise space.

The Australian International School of Singapore (AISS) has expanded its 3Com-based campus-wide network with the addition of new network switches and an upgraded VOIP system from 3Com.