Stories by Mike Gee

Fujitsu Forum Tokyo, the company's largest annual event, was held May 16-17 2013 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. 12,000 IT decision-makers and experts from around the world attended the event.

Fujitsu Forum 2013 – Reshaping ICT, Rehaping Business, Society - featured seminars and exhibitions demonstrating Fujitsu‘s latest products, services and technologies. This includes the company's initiatives to build safe, secure and sustainable cities; its approach to leveraging ICT to give customers a competitive edge, as well as the Cloud and Big Data analysis technologies that make this possible.

Treasurer Wayne Swan's sixth budget may well be his last. But it certainly had some highlights although most analysts agree that it didn't offer a great deal to Australian economy. The following stories offer a broad-based, ICT-centric coverage of the budget.

Solutions and services provider, CSC has welcomed the Federal Government's Budget announcement regarding health and technology.

Australia's national broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service Corporation (SBS), have been allocated an additional $109.4 million over three years so they can continue to provide high quality programming and services for Australian audiences.

The Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme has been extended to June 30, 2014, to assist Australians living and working in regional and remote areas.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has announced an extra $12.9 million for new digital initiatives to showcase the possibilities of the National Broadband Network.

The Government is providing $2.7 million over four years to help communities in regional and remote Australia access an increased range of radio services on the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) service.

Resellers are becoming more interested and involved in Cloud services, according to leading distributor, Ingram Micro which has seen a surge in the uptake of its Cloud services products.

Ingram Micro has been appointed the exclusive Australian distributor for enterprise storage management specialist, Actifio.

Beats Electronics has released the new Beats by Dr. Dre Pill, an innovative, portable, wireless speaker with built-in, patented Beats Audio. The new speaker will be distributed by Ingram Micro Mobility (formerly Brightpoint), a division of Ingram Micro.

NBN Co has unveiled the names of the communities that are next in line to receive high-speed fibre optic broadband.

Global IT solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions, has announced Avnet Services, a new global business model designed to create greater alignment and increase operational efficiencies worldwide.

EganTeamBoard has named Ingram Micro Australia as its new distribution partner - and only authorised distributor - for the full range of TeamBoard products in Australia.

IBM software and services company, Certus Solutions, has restructured part of its business, splitting the management of two lines - business analytics (BA) and information management (IM) - as a result of significant growth in both areas.

Rugged laptop, the Getac B300, has been upgraded with twice the graphics capabilities of the previous generation B300.