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Global library and management solutions provider, Softlink, has been selected by  leading Victorian TAFE, Kangan Institute, to deliver its web-based information management solution, Liberty, for use in Kangan's six Melbourne campuses.

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.

Australian-based, international business intelligence vendor Yellowfin and its client, Macquarie University, have received two awards for Location Intelligence (LI) at the sixth annual Ventana Research Leadership Awards.  Yellowfin's Ventana award is the first by an Australian software vendor.

The Australian arm of wireless music systems vendor, Sonos, has boosted its Aussies sale team as it looks to further lift its brand presence with retailers across Australia next year.

Unisys reckons companies getting into cloud computing for the first time should take a hybrid enterprise approach and integrate the cloud solution with existing IT resources.  The sales pitch from the IT services vendor comes on the back of a new poll, with enterprises indicating cloud computing is their top IT investment priority next year.

Business finance solutions provider, Finlease, has launched a tailored finance solution that it says provides simple, competitive financing packages specifically for the IT sector, covering hardware, software and services.

Business intelligence software and services vendor, ComOps, has secured a contract to deploy its BI platform for York Precision Plastics, a manufacturer of prismatic lens panels and wraparound lighting diffusers.

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.

As the federal government announces spending cuts in its mini-budget, will the public servants who implement government policy chance their arm at real productivity improvements enabled by technology, asks one analyst firm, or will they will just implement yet another round of slashing running costs?

Centrelink has deployed has deployed its investigation management system using the SAP Investigative Case Management  solution to support increasing investigation workloads, streamline processes, reduce overall budgets and allow for greater accountability.

Single suppliers are increasingly taking the place of multi-sourcing contracts in the outsourcing market, according to a new market report from one analyst firm.