THE Federal Government’s E-commerce Expert Group will review consumer protection issues in relation to the increased use of m-commerce (mobile commerce) by businesses.
In the first of a series on IT outsourcing, Julie-anne Sprague examines who’s bidding for the major contracts.
MOST local IT outsourcing companies agree that government contracts account for a large slice of work in Western Australia.
IT research firm META Group envisages good growth for its services in WA and has appointed a full-time regional WA manager, Geoff Large, who is charged with developing the group’s presence in WA.
ACHIEVING real cost savings and improving staff efficiencies through the implementation of communications technology can be as simple as updating the phone system.
Managing a mobile workforce takes work, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
THE successful operation of a mobile workforce demands careful management of a company’s human and technical resources.
THE home has become a favoured work site, whether on a full-time basis or for the flexibility it can offer.
ABS statistics for the year 2000 say that 20 per cent of people worked in their own home or a home other than their employer’s or client’s home.
COMPANIES often spend thousands of dollars registering a domain name but many remain unaware that it can be lost overnight through simple administrative errors.
ONE of the big movers in the IT sector this year will be the mass adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, according to technology analyst groups.
AMNET Limited has signed a licence agreement with RMIT University to conduct the RMIT English Worldwide course at Amnet’s Chongqing HaiLan University in China.
LOCAL electronics design and manufacturing company Omnitronics is gaining international momentum and will ship its communications products to Canada and Scotland later this month.
THE misuse of email systems by staff is by far the most common email security problem. The potentially devastating consequences associated with the abuse of company email systems highlights the critical importance of developing and implementing a
THERE can be little argument that electronic mail is a mission-critical and indispensible business tool upon which most enterprises are partially or totally dependent.
However, as is often the case with technologies offering significant advantages to
SECURITY risk specialists Osprey Asset Management (OAM) has used digital asset software to produce an interactive travel risk-training package.
OAM last year commissioned Perth company Optimiser to develop software to allocate usage time for the CD-based
IN the fast-paced world of information communication technology there were two issues that dominated the local industry this year – the State Government’s SPIRIT and WA-MAID initiatives and the Pinnacle Blue super computer.
SPEED is the primary attraction of broadband services to the business community. ADSL, ISDN and cable allow subscribers to move large amounts of data in a fraction of the time required by analogue dial-up connections.
A SMALL engineering firm’s revolutionary iron-ore transport wagon has beaten some big engineering names to take out this year’s Institution of Engineers (WA Division) Award.
FOOD-FRYING technology developer VosTech Ltd will no longer focus on the creation of the finest fried foods on offer, deciding instead to move into the arena of investments in animal health biotechnology.
KEEPING in touch with employees ‘on the road’ is not always easy.Mobile phones can be out of range, inadvertently switched off, or insufficiently loud to conquer ambient noise.
SIDELINED industrial technology player Vostech is set to return to the field tomorrow after a $1.7 million equity raising, which has helped pave the way to a deal with creditors.
REMEMBER those airboards zipping around the Olympic arena during the opening ceremony? Like many of Australia’s great inventions, they were created in the industrial suburbs of Perth.
