WHILE e-commerce and B2B may be IT buzzwords this year for large corporations, WA’s small business sector is trying to work out how email systems and websites can help their bottom line.
THE recent acquisition of WA-based Enterprise Solutions by Perth business Focal Systems will speed up the expansion of a unique, Danish-designed e-business service into WA.
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.
THE managing director of METHOD, formerly Method + Madness, said the forecasted drop in full-year revenues of parent company Sausage Software would not affect its operations.
MARK Lapins hunts computer viruses. The managing director of Netguard watches the web and listens to rumours to spot some of the 100 or so viruses it’s estimated are released onto the World Wide Web every week.
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.
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 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.
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.
