The boom in Internet-enabled mobile devices (IEMDs) is reshaping the European printing industry, offering new challenges and opportunities for hardcopy vendors, with analysts predicting a slow decline in future demand in print volumes for the traditional hardcopy vendors.

A new survey carried out by a major analyst firm suggests CIOs in the Asia Pacific region will be relatively flush with cash compared with their counterparts in the US and Europe.

Free live streaming from the Australian Open is being delivered by Ooyala - but not to Aussies, Kiwis, Poms... (the list goes on).

Australian-based software maker, Intelledox, has reached a reseller and implementation partnership agreement with European software and solutions vendor, The Livingstone Group.

Japan’s Panasonic is to expand its smartphone business to the European market in March next year, and has also a set target of 15 million units for overseas sales of its smartphones by the end of the fiscal year in March 2016, using Europe as a stepping stone to the global market.

International remittances via mobile devices are rising rapidly with predictions of explosive growth over the next five years, with the value of the remittances jumping from less than $12 million this year to $55 million by 2016.

Security vendor WatchGuard Technologies has enjoyed a good 2011, and its executives seem optimistic about 2012.

The European Commission is investigating whether five major publishers have breached European Union rules by engaging in anticompetitive activity affecting the sale of ebooks, "possibly with the help of Apple".

Cloud, dedicated and managed hosting provider SoftLayer notched up record third-quarter revenues. The company is planning an Australian data centre for early 2012.

The global IT services sector is still doing it tough following a disastrous second quarter this year, with just a slight pickup in the number of deals signed in the third quarter, and with a signficant drop in demand for services in the US market for most of the year.