Crowdsourcing Design Company DesignBay Raises Capital and Acquires DesignCrowdSYDNEY, November 24 - Crowdsourcing design company DesignBay has raised capital from a OpenSymmetry Opens Australian Office and Provides Consultancy to Australia’s 2nd Largest BankSYDNEY - - Mark Wild Appointed to Head up Australian Office OpenSymmetry, a worldwide leader in outsourced incentive management and reward technology solutions, today announced the opening of its new Australian offices in Sydney, New South Wales and the appointment of Mark Wild as Managing Director of OpenSymmetry Australia Pty Ltd. The new office has already secured a major client and will be providing incentive management services to Australia’s 2nd largest bank. BioPower Systems to Develop Wave Energy Projects With Spain’s ElecnorSYDNEY - Australia’s ocean energy company, BioPower Systems, today announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Spanish Global Project Development Company Elecnor SA. Sydney Harbour Bridge Hosts 6,000 People for ‘Breakfast on the Bridge’SYDNEY - NSW Premier Nathan Rees today confirmed the success of the first breakfast on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. PROGNOSIS VoIP Monitor Release 2 Offers New Features and Enhanced Licensing for all Avaya Customers and ResellersSYDNEY - Integrated Research today announced that PROGNOSIS VoIP Monitor Release 2, offering both new features and enhanced functionality, is now available to all Avaya IP telephony customers as both an upgrade for existing VoIP Monitor users and as a standalone download from VoiceQuality.com. Clinical Genomics Continues Collaborative Research With CSIROSYDNEY - Sydney-based Clinical Genomics Pty Ltd and CSIRO have entered into a new phase in their collaboration to develop improved diagnostics for cancers of the colon and rectum (bowel cancer). De Groot’s Sword Returns to Open Sydney Harbour Bridge CentreSYDNEY - - Announcing BridgeClimb’s New Climb Base, a New Climb, and the first Sydney Harbour Bridge Visitor Centre Nortel and Avaya Clients Protect VoIP ROI with Multi-Platform VoIP MonitoringSYDNEY - Integrated Research, the maker of PROGNOSIS, today announced achievement of the latest Nortel certification as part of a certified VoIP management solution for Avaya, Nortel and Cisco telephony. PROGNOSIS’s certified VoIP monitoring solution is a package of products and services that enable customers to protect VoIP ROI by maximising uptime, reducing operating costs and ensuring service level achievement for Avaya, Nortel and Cisco platforms. City Talk: Ken Livingstone To Visit SydneySYDNEY - Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will give a free public talk about sustainable cities and integrated transport in Sydney, Australia on Wednesday 16 September. Pagemasters’ Editorial Production Services Launched in North AmericaSYDNEY - Australian editorial production house Pagemasters has announced a deal that will lead to the services it pioneered in Australasia being offered to newspapers in North America. BT Financial Group Honoured in 2009’s CIO 100 AwardsSYDNEY, LONDON and CHICAGO - ThoughtWorks is delighted to announce that Australian BT Financial Group’s ‘BT Super for Life’ superannuation product (www.btsuperforlife.com.au), which was developed through a BT and ThoughtWorks’ partnership, has been honoured in the global CIO 100 Awards this year. O4 Reignites Cadbury’s Field Sales Force With Easy-to-Use TechnologySYDNEY - Cadbury today announced it has chosen O4 Corporation, the world’s leading provider of mobile sales force automation solutions to deliver an advanced retail execution solution. O4’s solution has been rolled-out in record time to some 200 Cadbury territory managers throughout Australia, enabling them to better manage sales, order taking and new product launches, and provide office-based management with access to real-time data from the field. Skyscanner and HotelsCombined Partnership Takes OffSYDNEY - Travel search site Skyscanner has launched new hotel search functionality at www.skyscanner.net/hotels. Powered by HotelsCombined, the hotel search function allows Skyscanner users to search over 200,000 hotels across 195 countries, comparing prices from the biggest suppliers in the business such as Holiday Inn, Hilton, Booking.com, Hotels.com and LateRooms.com. Internet Security Expert Named ICANN CEOSYDNEY - - Rod Beckstrom is Global Entrepreneur, Analyst and Author Internet founders and leaders are joining industry executives and government officials in praising the selection of Rod Beckstrom as the new Chief Executive Officer and President of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Advance in Bowel Cancer Test ResearchSYDNEY - Australian researchers have developed gene expression biomarkers which can accurately discriminate pre-cancerous and cancerous colorectal growths from non-cancerous controls. Avoidable Distance Vision Impairment Costs $269 Billion in Lost ProductivitySYDNEY - A study published in the latest edition of Bulletin of the World Health Organisation (June 2009) estimates the global economy loses $269 billion(1) in productivity annually due to vision impairment. The Dark Side of ‘Cheap’ Online Hotel DealsSYDNEY - So you think you’ve found a “cheap” online hotel deal. Then came the hitch of booking fees, taxes and other sneaky fees. For some unexpected reason you now need to cancel your reservation only to learn that your “special” hotel rate was non-refundable. Sometimes “cheap” online hotel deals just don’t turn out that cheap after all. www.configuremyphone.com Launches to Help Australians Get the Most From Their Mobile PhonesSYDNEY - Problems Getting Email on Your Mobile, Sending Pictures or Browsing the Web? - it’s Over! New Imaginism - Breakthrough New Art Form To Be Launched in 2009SYDNEY - Six international artists have come together from around the world, to announce the upcoming unveiling of a new art form and philosophy called New Imaginism. Clinical Genomics Continues Progress in Developing Biomarker Portfolio for Colorectal Cancer TestingSYDNEY - To Receive Milestone Payments from Quest Diagnostics Clinical Genomics Pty Ltd, an Australian biotechnology company, announced today that Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the world’s leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services, has agreed to provide milestone payments over the next two years to Clinical Genomics to further develop its portfolio of gene-based biomarkers associated with early onset of colorectal cancer. Clinical Genomics was awarded the payments after successfully achieving key research and development goals. Under terms of a worldwide license agreement, Quest Diagnostics has exclusive rights to the biomarkers for use in developing a test as an aid in detecting precancerous and cancerous colorectal tumors in conjunction with other clinical findings. Additional financial terms were not disclosed. Artist Begins Spamming 10 Million Americans With - Cans of Spam!SYDNEY - The largest distribution of any artwork in history is currently under way - ten million unique versions of artistic spam are being emailed to millions of people for free! Digital Originals - Is This the ‘Killer Application’ for Digital Fine Art?SYDNEY - “The old models of commercial art distribution are, in today’s digitally dominant world, no longer applicable” - announced the www.DigitalOriginals.org/uk website today. |
