Santa dishes out black eye to Web sites
Santa's giving Internet shops a black eye right about.....now.
Santa's giving Internet shops a black eye right about.....now.
Telstra wants government help to force US carriers to pay their share of the costs of transmitting Internet data that their customers extract from the world outside America. ISPs similar things to what the big US operators are doing to it.
Australian venture capitalists dispensing cash at record rates to startup companies are still wary about giving Internet companies a group hug.
A new colossus, the enterprise portal, is rearing its head above the fog of confusion blanketing the e-business battleground.
Finger-pointing and recriminations are underway after the sensational collapse of a huge Asia Pacific technology conference.
Frustration, dissatisfaction and low morale appear endemic among the residual IT staff of a number of federal government departments that have played the outsourcing card.
Several industry sources who spoke to Computerworld claim the two-year-plus outsourcing contract between the Department of Veterans' Affairs and IBM Global Services has sparked wide-ranging discontent among users.
A $US350 million program that swaps Hewlett-Packard hardware for a slice of its customer's action is poised to benefit a number of Australian companies.
The cost and complexity of creating e-business applications is soaring and Australian e-commerce solution providers are losing ground to US competitors.
Vying with Victoria for the title of Australia's e-commerce champion, NSW has established an advisory board studded with leading IT figures to stimulate the growth of startup companies nationally.
If you're an aspiring CIO, take heed: the professional life expectancy of the average IT chief is only two and a half years, probably the briefest of any IT group.
A storm may be brewing because US companies have won special rights to pursue advertising space on the official Sydney 2000 Olympics Web site.
Alone among corporate sponsors of national Olympic committees, US companies have been given the opportunity to advertise on the site along with sponsors from the host country, Australia.
E-commerce specialists are frustrated by what they claim is a foot-dragging attitude to internet services by Australia's banks.
Philip McCrea, who moderates the influential Internet Commerce Association mailing list, says banks are slow to recognise the internet as a business enabler.
Australia's first commercial Website open for Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) business failed to attract more than five orders in its first two months.
The Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) is opting for a $9 million private Mobitex mobile data network it believes will avoid some of the problems of public trunk radio.
Queensland this week set aside about $100 million for IT&T initiatives in its record $16.8 billion state budget for 1999-2000.