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With worldwide PC shipments totalling 91.8 million units in the three months to the end of September this year - falling short of forecasts by around two percent - the consumer PC market continued to be weak as the popularity of non-PC devices, including media tablets, like the iPad and smartphones, took consumers' spending away from PCs.

Social media companies should build new business models to tap into increased usage and levels of engagement by a maturing user base, according to one major research firm, which reports that worldwide social media subscription revenues will reach $236 million by the end of this year.

Telstra and the Victorian Government have both signalled their willingness to take a punt on the emerging Chinese offshoring market. Last month VanceInfo Technologies which employs around 12,000 technology workers in China and 40 staff in Australia, announced it had been accepted onto Victoria's eServices panel. The company is already engaged on development projects for Telstra's cloud services.

The NSW Government has announced the composition of its ICT industry advisory panel opting for seven well-credentialed members of the ICT establishment with nary a maverick outlier amongst them.

As spending on information technology and services in the Australian insurance sector grows, external factors like regulatory change, an uncertain economy and the increasing frequency of catastrophic events are forcing insurers to reassess their business processes and the technology that enables them.

It is hardly surprising, but the gap between Apple and its iPad and the rest of the field in media tablet uptake and sales worldwide is still huge, with the global giant killer expected to finish this year with more than 50 percent marketshare and remain there until at least 2014.

Two major global vendors, RightNow and Compuware have been named as leaders in their respective IT fields by analyst firm, Gartner in its Magic Quadrant for 2011. RightNow is in the quadrant with its web customer services solutions and Compuware gains recognition for its application performance monitoring solution.

Today, virtualisation, cloud computing, mobility, Web 2.0 and complex application architectures are changing the fabric of IT and, consequently, the requirements for performance monitoring. What's needed is modern application performance monitoring (APM) that streamlines the discovery, diagnosis and resolution of application issues before they affect users, violate service levels or negatively impact business. The Quest® Foglight® solution simplifies application performance monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications, user experience and the supporting infrastructure.

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, today announced that Gartner Inc. has placed Compuware in the 'leaders' quadrant of the 'Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (1). The report evaluated 29 vendors on completeness of vision and ability to execute. A complimentary copy of the report can be viewed here: https://bit.ly/q5jKi7 .

The consumerization of BI, and enterprise computing technologies at large, has led to a surge in conversation around the promise of Collaborative BI. Now, the same principles are being applied, and discussed in relation to, the development of applications for the mobile distribution of reporting and analytics.

Compuware has released a an upgrade to its data privacy solution which it says automates the process of masking production-level data for application developers and testers, cutting out the time-consuming task of performing data disguise coding on each data set they extract.

An increasingly mobile workforce, more social networks, and advanced attacks have made it critical for organisations to quickly deploy effective data theft prevention. That's why Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) developed the TRITONâ„¢ solution, which includes the Websense® Data Security Suite. And Gartner, Inc. has positioned Websense as a leader in its recently released 'Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention ' (i) and published a Websense evaluation in the 'Critical Capabilities for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention ' report. (ii)

The Asia Pacific server market remained healthy throughout the second quarter of 2011, with year-on-year shipment growth of 25.6 percent and revenue up 26.1 percent compared to the same quarter last year. APAC had the strongest increase in server shipments, with the focus firmly on the Chinese market.

With 94% or almost 635m new PCs shipped by the end of 2011 to come with Windows 7, and on 42% of all PCs in total, Microsoft's Vista replacement is slowly but surely making its way up the charts, as Apple posts small gains and Linux based operating systems remain 'niche'.

Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (Nasdaq: ININ), a global provider of unified IP business communications solutions, has been positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant of its 2011 Magic Quadrant for Contact Center Infrastructure, Worldwide (1) report .

According to IDC, sales of iPhones soared 13 percent in the three months from December 2010, making Apple the lead mobile phone vendor in Australia accounting for almost a third of total sales in Q1 2011.

Featured Research VP and lead analyst for Web content management (WCM) for Gartner, Mick MacComascaigh will deliver the keynote presentation at Sitecore's online and WCM conference, Dreamcore Australia 2011 in Sydney on 5 October.

With the global economy stalled in the doldrums, large enterprises are looking to chief information officers to save them money and provide the technical underpinnings to take them into new markets. Put simply, big business is looking to IT to pull its chestnuts out of the fire.

In 2010, 52 percent of data-stealing attacks were conducted over the web (i) and 2011 doesn't look any safer. To stop targeted attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs), organisations need new security strategies. Their content security needs to examine - in real time - the substance of each website and email. Traditional endpoint and network security products are no longer sufficient. That's why Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN) developed the TRITONâ„¢ solution, including the Websense® Web Security Gateway . And today, Websense announced that Gartner, Inc. has positioned Websense as a leader in its recently released "Magic Quadrant for Secure Web Gateway ." (ii)

Worldwide security software sales rebounded from the economic slowdown with vendor revenues jumping 12 percent from 2009 to last year, with security-as-a-service showing increasing popularity and new technologies being introduced.