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With an evolving, sophisticated threat landscape alongside emerging business enabling technologies and increasing compliance pressures, the Australian New Zealand security market looks healthy, and set to hit the US$1.6 billion mark by 2011.

WiQuest today announced that its latest silicon offering would be used in certified wireless USB products. Dell and Lenovo have both signed on to use the new technology as part of their notebook product lines.

Google released its second quarter profit results overnight to mixed reactions. The internet monolith reported a 58% increase in revenues year-on-year to $3.87bn, with advertising growth on Google sites growing a strong 74% year-on-year to $2.49bn.

Taking a significant step away from traditional search engine practices, Ask.com has announced that it will soon offer completely anonymous web search.

Despite talk of scaling back acquisitions in favour of focusing on its core business, EMC has announced that it has purchased X-Hive, a Dutch CML specialist to its ranks.

Australian real estate advertising specialist the REA Group has picked EMC’s storage, software and services to manage the vast amount of data generated by its online property listings each month.

A week following Google’s acquisition of the security firm Postini, Oracle has bought online identity theft and fraud detection specialist Bharosa.

Solid Data is showing off its latest terabyte solid state disk (SSD) array, laying claim to significant increases in performance, stability and energy efficiency thanks to an infrastructure redesign.

While the City of Sydney recommends a ‘Go-Bag’ to prepare in case of a disaster, the Commerce Department in the United States has announced a US$968 million spend on disaster technology.

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has hit out at the IT talent shortage, stating talent is alive and kicking in taxi drivers and the over-50 employee market.

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