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The global market for traditional PCs has returned to growth after two years of decline, the technology analyst firm IDC says, pointing out that 59.1 million shipments had been made in the first three months of 2024, or 1.5% growth year-on-year.

Cybersecurity Awareness Month has kicked off, and with the continued rise in cyberthreats worldwide, for businesses to help protect their assets, they need a fail-proof security architecture, and the expert insights and partner to help stay ahead of bad actors, according to Verizon Communications.

Cloud-based call center as a service (CCaaS) provider Aircall has appointed Pablo Gargiulo as its first chief revenue officer.

The retail sector became a top target for ransomware and data-theft extortion attacks during the pandemic in 2020, according to global cybersecurity company Sophos.

Ninety-three percent of capital project and construction professionals in APAC are optimistic about their organisation’s future with 78% citing digital transformation as a key growth opportunity 

GUEST RESEARCH: InEight Inc., a global leader in construction project management software, has today launched its first annual Global Capital Projects Outlook. The Outlook, drawing insights from new research conducted with the world’s largest capital project owners and contractor construction professionals across the Americas, Europe and APAC, focuses on optimism levels and digitisation, and found that despite COVID-19, 93% of respondents in the APAC region are either fairly or very optimistic about their future, and 89% believe their organisation to be resilient. 

Zscaler, the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of Exposed, the industry's first global report on the state of corporate attack surfaces. Based on data sourced between February 2020 and April 2021, the report provides a first-ever look at the impact of attack surface exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the report, Zscaler notes that as businesses began offering more remote work options, their attack surfaces grew concurrently with their dispersed workforce.

Promising visionary speakers that will highlight how data-driven strategies are transforming industries, predicting the future, and safeguarding society and the environment, Hitachi’s three-day virtual forum looks set to be spectacular.

Investment in Australia’s fintech sector has accelerated in the first half of 2020, reaching US$376.5 million, a more than 150% increase from US$149.05 million in the corresponding period in 2019, with the growth coming despite a decline in merger activity, according to a new fintech report.

Brisbane-based global electric vehicle DC fast-charging technology provider Tritium has been awarded a contract from the City of Pasadena in California to install 20 Tritium RT50/50kW DC Fast Chargers in the city’s Marengo Charging Plaza.

Global fintech as a service Rapyd has undertaken a major expansion of its Disburse mass-payment platform.

Organisations worldwide, including in Australia, are hungry for hybrid cloud (91%), but only 18% have that model today, according to a new research report that also found over a third of organisations overspent on public cloud budget.

A subsidiary of the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies has completed the installation of a 6000-kilometre trans-Atlantic fibre optic subsea cable between Fortaleza in Brazil and Kribi in Cameroon.

Wi-Fi company Ruckus Networks has signed a original equipment manufacturing agreement with Dell EMC to deliver globally Ruckus’ portfolio of wireless solutions, including access points, controllers, virtualised and data analytics assets, and Cloudpath secure network access software.

Many enterprises are faced with a lack of Internet of Things skills putting at risk the success of their IoT deployments, according to a new global report from UK-based satellite communications provider Inmarsat.

UK telco BT has appointed Bas Burger to head up its global services business to replace long-time company senior executive Luis Alvarez.

Australian-listed telecommunications services company Norwood Systems has expanded its sales team with the appointment of a former Telstra senior executive to head the company’s sales effort in the North American market.

In the lead up to the peak Christmas-New Year travel season, Telstra has increased mobile roaming charges by 50% and tripled excess data charges.

UK-based communications group BT is supporting global power and automation technologies company, ABB, in the transformation and management of its global communications infrastructure across the Asia Pacific, including Australia, and Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East.

Salesforce.com has reported an increase in sales across the business for the three months to the end of April, bringing $1.51 billion into its coffers for the quarter, up 23% year-on-year.

Data centre vendor Equinix has launched its new global channel partner program which it says is designed to help managed service providers, network service providers, system integrators and solution providers deploy the right IT and cloud solutions for enterprise customers.