Online video fuels APAC internet traffic

Internet users in the Asia Pacific region, including Australia and New Zealand, last year generated around 67,000 petabytes of Internet traffic and forecasts now predict that over the next five years traffic will soar to almost 530,000pb, with China and India easily the biggest traffic generators.
 

Total lunar eclipse headed to parts of Earth 12-10-2011

A total lunar eclipse will be present in the western parts of the United States and Canada, along with Australia, Alaska, Hawaii, and parts of central and eastern Asia on Saturday, December 10, 2011.
 

A large part of the Internet went down early today, did you notice?

A bug in a large number of Juniper Internet routers led to significant outages all across the world.  What actually happened?
 

Big data analytics take-up increases

The uptake of big data analytics as a strategic business tool by enterprises is growing and spreading further as businesses increasingly put their faith in extracting data which will help drive business benefits in areas like customer services and trends.
 

CSG wins ERP contract

Australian owned, listed ICT company, CSG has sealed a contract with global engineering and project management group, Ausenco, to implement an Oracle ERP platform to underpin the company’s global expansion.
 

Telecoms’ on the rebound

The telecoms industry is showing strong signs of recovery from global financial woes, with revenues back on track following weak performances last year and growing carrier confidence in undertaking business initiatives previously delayed be the downturn.
 

Internet traffic to approach a zettabyte by 2015

Worldwide Internet traffic is set to quadruple in the next four years according to a major network hardware vendor.
 

Pingdom pings StatCounter to make out 'Mac friendly' nations

Website uptime monitoring firm Pingdom has been looking at visitor stats to find out where Macs are most popular. Australia is one of the top ten nations on this measure.
 

Asia, Africa to take lead in mobile advertising

  Leadership in mobile advertising is likely to shift away from Europe and North America to Asia and Africa.  
 

150 million tablets etc to ship worldwide in 2015

An industry analyst is predicting 150 million tablets and other portable Internet devices will ship in 2015, with the biggest share going into the Asia Pacific region.