THE interactive technology arm of WA resources company Burdekin Pacific Ltd has recently signed an alliance with Pineapplehead, providers of televised sports graphics and statistics.
WA has gone against the national trend by recording a 1.35 per cent increase in advertised information technology and telecommunication positions for the year to May.
MORE than 1000 companies nationwide have taken advantage of the Business Software Association of Australia’s amnesty from prosecution for possessing pirated software.
DESPITE promising beginnings, web cam technology has been under-utilised in Australia. In WA it has been left largely up to Government departments and non-profit organisations to broadcast still images and live streaming.
IF at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.That’s the advice from leading CD ROM developer Jackie Turnure, who has returned to Perth after nine successful years in the US.
THE Federal Government’s decision to exclude sports betting and lotteries from its Interactive Gambling legislation may have failed to impress opponents of the Bill, but has delighted the racing industry.
DESPITE having millions of members and recently forming a strategic alliance with the record companies trying to bring it down, the future of Internet music swapping site Napster may be in doubt.
IN its first full year of operation, the Australian Broadcasting Authority’s controversial Internet regulatory regime has failed to impress peak online associations, with one calling it a $2.5 million waste of taxpayer’s money.
CURTIN University of Technology has successfully trialled anti-plagiarism software to detect students who use the Internet to cheat on their assignments.
FOR those outside the IT industry, the term ‘cybercrime’ seems the stuff of Hollywood movies and media scandals. Thoughts of computer hackers defeating evil multinationals by simply infiltrating their networks have never been so entertaining.
PEAK IT industry associations have labelled last week’s Federal Budget a disappointment, claiming only minor spending has been directed at one of Australia’s fastest growing industries.
THE Australian Communications Authority last week banned the use of mobile phone boosters and users face big fines if caught using the prohibited technology.
A WA company has developed a new software package that will allow part-time investors to analyse share markets and look for upward trends via the Internet.
AUSTRALIA’S information and communications technology industry is worth more than $100 billion a year and employs 680,000 people, but makes a smaller contribution to the country compared with ICT industries in other nations.
HOSPITALITY industry employers will need to look closely at their workplace smoking policies following a landmark Supreme Court decision to award more than $466,000 in damages in a passive smoking case.
WHILE more than one third of WA households are now online, the initial cost of connecting to the Internet is still prohibitive for low-income families.
IMAGES of Ally McBeal, LA Law, and The Practice dominate our television screens, but the head of the WA Law Society wants to make sure the public can distinguish fantasy from reality.
STYLISHLY thin laptop computers have replaced the thick reams of legal documents barristers and judges carry to courtrooms in the May Holman building on St George’s Terrace.
THE Internet Industry Association has called for Communications Minister Richard Alston to abandon the controversial datacasting licence auction set for later this month.
ACCORDING to a national survey released this week, 70 per cent of IT business leaders believe jobs will be lost due to the weak economy. But the outlook for the end of the year is bright.
