Email and messaging are an integral part of social life and enhance the quality of users' personal relationships, according to global research released on Friday by Yahoo.
According to Yahoo's Mail Netiquette Survey, which polled 13,000 people from Australia, New Zealand and other countries, 55 per cent of users said email had "markedly" improved their social lives. Also, the frequency of social contact increased for 60 per cent of respondents. Three out of four people said they were closer to their family and friends since they started using email.
While airline carriers worldwide plan to shift to an e-commerce service model over the next year, they hinder their prospects of advancement through scant IT investment and poor skills, an industry survey has revealed.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) has dropped web design company Spike and signed a $200,000 sponsorship deal with multimedia agency Deepend Sydney to re-vamp its website and attract customers.
IBM will launch a $23 million e-business innovation centre in Sydney this year to deliver e-business solutions to vertical industries.
The Western Victoria Chamber of E-Commerce has launched a regional web portal, www.MainStreet.au.com, today to boost e-commerce uptake among funding and skill-strapped communities in regional Victoria.
The Federal government has announced it will contract PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in a $2.5 billion Commonwealth non-defence property management agreement, which the government claims will generate $88 million for the local economy.
Outsourcing should not be seen as "rocket science" but a simple relationship management tool for achieving a competitive and sustainable business, a leading outsourcing consultant told the Australian Outsourcing Summit today.
Telstra will take over internet transaction solutions provider Keycorp in a $515 million equity-based deal to form an internet payment service provision business, the carrier announced on Friday.
The hype over e-business is leading organisations astray from forming crucial integrated teams of IT and business specialists, a Gartner analyst has warned.
Internet credit card payment provider Camtech has announced unprecedented business growth in the last quarter owing to what it said were receding security fears among online shoppers.
Internet infrastructure service provider (IISP) VivaNET has announced plans to list on the Australian Stock Exchange later this year in a $5 million float.
LibertyOne has announced that CyberSentry has issued a formal bid to acquire all shares in LibertyOne via a share swap.
Companies should adopt a 70 per cent outsourced business model to generate "agility" and wider access to external business knowledge, an industry executive has claimed.
Companies should adopt a 70 per cent outsourced business model to generate "agility" and wider access to external business knowledge, an industry executive has claimed.
SYDNEY (07/19/2000) - Cable & Wireless Optus Ltd. (CWO) has launched a mobile
communications package designed to tap into the inbound travel boom expected
around the Sydney Olympic Games to be held in September.