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Panasonic last week unveiled a slew of new portable computers, focusing on small but rugged models.

Revenues from Australia's online advertising market will grow to over $481 million in 2008, according to Frost & Sullivan predictions.

Whether you're talking on a mobile phone, listening to tunes on a media player or typing on a notebook, it's a good bet that the device's battery won't last as long as you'd like. However, that will change over the next few years, as fuel cells designed to power mobile gear start to become common.

If you're pining over how to go green and reduce your organization's energy consumption, consider how IT can be used to reduce power inside and out of the company walls, according to a South Australia government department CIO.

In terms of managed services uptake in the Asia/Pacific region, excluding Japan, Australia and New Zealand is the most mature sector, according to Frost & Sullivan. At the same time, many of the large and medium-sized organisations are looking at how they can optimise their IT investments and become more effective in utilising IT with the help of managed and hosted services.

For some datacenter operators out there, insufficient server processing power isn't driving them to adopt more and more servers. Rather, it's the lack of precious server memory, necessary to deliver results at the lightning speed users have come to expect -- nay, demand -- from search engines, social networking sites, e-commerce sites, and similar Internet-based applications. A pair of companies, Virident and Spansion, have announced a remedy to the problem: replacing (or, more accurately, supplementing) the traditional DRAM found on servers with a flavor of flash memory called EcoRAM, capable of boosting a single server's memory beyond today's 32GB limit to a capacity of 512GB -- without increasing the machine's power envelope.

Market research firm Frost & Sullivan has said that emerging economies will continue to invest in the communications and conferencing infrastructure market, despite fears of economic restraint from the US economy.

The Asia/Pacific region can expect to be home to some 43 million WiMax subscribers by the end of 2013 and to generate estimated revenues of close to $US11 billion at a compound annual growth rate of 45 per cent (2007-2013). However, Australia will only make up two per cent of the Asia/Pacific region's WiMax subscriber base by 2013.

A new Frost & Sullivan report is predicting WiMax will remain a limited and niche technology in Australia.

Australia's $485 million Unified Communications market increased its growth by almost a third in 2007, with CIOs and IT managers increasingly turning to UC applications to improve efficiency and save money, according to Frost & Sullivan's 2008 Australia Unified Communications Report.

Ovum, a consulting firm that specializes in telecom and software consulting, released a study this week projecting that the global market for managed services will deliver revenues of US$66 billion by 2012.