Web security vendor, Websense, has beaten its rivals to take the lions share of the unified web security market in the Asia Pacific region for this year, and had its market performance recognised by Frost  & Sullivan with the Market Share Leadership Award for 2011.

Australian-based, international business intelligence vendor Yellowfin and its client, Macquarie University, have received two awards for Location Intelligence (LI) at the sixth annual Ventana Research Leadership Awards.  Yellowfin’s Ventana award is the first by an Australian software vendor.

The CEO of Australia’s second largest DSL broadband provider, iiNet, Michael Malone, who started his business in his parents garage, has been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

Technology recruiter, Finite IT has won the prestigious Deloitte Recruitment Excellence Award for best business management for the second year running.

An Adelaide law firm has been using iPhones for court reporting, conferencing and client management and had its efforts recognised by the legal industry with the best innovation in legal IT at the National Lawtech Summit awards.

For the third consecutive year the Finite Group specialist ICT recruitment firm has been ranked in the 50 Best Places to Work list by Business Review Weekly (BRW).

The Australian ICT industry's three peak bodies have joined forces to bring their respective national awards under the banner of the well known iAwards program, created by the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) in 1995.

University students around the world are working on new projects, including developing smarter urban and transportation solutions and improved health care systems, with a bit of help from IBM.

Web content management system (CMS) software provider, Sitecore, has made it to the final selections for the ISV/Software Solutions category of Microsoft’s Partner of the Year Awards, with the winners to be announced at the Microsoft partner conference on the Gold Coast this Thursday night.

Business intelligence software produced by TechnologyOne has won a 2010 Australian Business Award in the best e-business product category, with the company one of 105 recipients chosen from almost 1850 entries submitted by more than 950 organisations.