Asia Pacific buyers of IT services and products seem to be hesitating on new purchasing commitments as the region appears to have been negatively impacted by the current global economic conditions, according to a new report just published.

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.

Software vendor, HighQ, has secured a contract to provide leading Australian law firm, Clayton Utz, with a new extranet and collaboration platform to its clients.

Communications systems integrator, NEC, has appointed a new chief of its maintenance and support services business, NECare, with the company pursuing a goal of becoming the ‘leading ICT services provider of choice’ in the Australian market.

Vendors in the global mobile device market have been warned that to be consistently successful they must shift their focus to designing mobile products or building server infrastructures ready to support mobile users, bundling products with useful, relevant software or services whenever possible, and making products adaptable to the changing and increasing demands of consumers and enterprises.

Smartphone security and mobile device management solutions provider, Airwatch, has been named and recognised as an “innovator” in the latest cloud-hosted mobile device management report from Forrester Research.

Global messaging technology provider, Retarus, has released a new version of its WebExpress, multi-channel communication platform, that now facilitates users posting messages on social media networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Xing.

OpenText has scored the double, with both Gartner and Forrester Research recognising the company and its enterprise content management solutions as a Leader in the ECM market.

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.

Global networking solutions vendor, Brocade has appointed industry veteran, Doug Ingraham to the position of vice president of alliances, with the responsibility for securing new business and overseeing the establishment of a program framework for the development of the company’s cloud ecosystem alliance partners.