Optus has appointed Hugh Humphrey, formerly a senior Vodafone executive as marketing director, enterprise mobile and converged services in Optus Business and Jim Jaques as marketing director of its Consumer business.
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Optus has appointed Hugh Humphrey, formerly a senior Vodafone executive as marketing director, enterprise mobile and converged services in Optus Business and Jim Jaques as marketing director of its Consumer business.
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Market research firm In-Stat is forecasting a revival in the Wi-Fi hot spot industry with usage in 2009 expected to be up almost 50 percent on 2008.
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Australian online video and digital media company, Viocorp, has introduced a facility that enable clients to upload videos with associated slide presentations for viewing over the web and to specify when slide transitions take place.
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Australian online video and digital media company, Viocorp, has introduced a facility that enable clients to upload videos with associated slide presentations for viewing over the web and to specify when slide transitions take place.
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HP is to purchase switch and router maker, 3Com, for $US2.7 billion in cash, a move that it says will "transform the networking industry" and "underscore its next-generation data centre strategy centre strategy built on the convergence of servers, storage, networking, management, facilities and services."
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Market research firm Strategy Analytics estimates Apple's Q3 2009 iPhone profits at $US1.6 billion putting it ahead of long time global leader Nokia for the first time.
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The two-day NBN conference being opened by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Sydney next month will cost Australian taxpayers more than $500,000 and produce "nothing more than a cynical marketing exercise," shadow communications minister Nick Minchin said.
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SP Telemedia (ASX: SOT) has made a $373m cash offer to buy Pipe Networks (ASX: PWK) which operates an extensive network of optical fibre cables and data centres in Australian capital cities and which owns the newly-opened PPC-1 submarine fibre cable from Sydney to Guam.
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PC peripheral specialist Logitech International is to acquire privately held videoconferencing specialist, LifeSize Communications for $US405 million in cash in a move designed to take high definition videoconferencing and video communications to the small enterprise and consumer markets.
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Optus has reported revenues of $2.22 billion for its second quarter, to 30 September; a 7.4 percent increase on the same period last year. EBITDA grew 6.4 percent to $509 million and net profit increased 22 percent to $152 million. The percentages of Optus' revenue and EBITDA attributable to its mobile business continue to grow and have now reached 62 percent and 68 percent respectively.
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Michael Lee, a communications minister in the Labor Government, has been appointed chair of Communications Alliance, effective from 1 January 2010. He will replace Neville Stevens who is stepping down after seven years in the post.
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According to the OECD, while the retail sector globally has been hit hard by the global financial crisis, e-commerce has fared well and has seen continuing growth in many countries. But it warns that more needs to be done to strengthen people's trust in buying online.
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Optus has increased its mobile customer base by 10 percent to 8.225m in the year to 30 September.
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Adam Internet has launched services and announced prices on the WiMAX network it is rolling out in Adelaide to provide broadband services to residents in a number of blackspot areas.
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The LG Watch Phone, a 3G phone no bigger than a clunky wrist watch, is expected to go on sale in Australia in December, for about $2300.
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