SYDNEY (09/13/2000) - Electronic commerce has had a "moderate" or "non-existent" impact on business, according to almost 80 percent of corporate chief executive officers in the Asia-Pacific region who participated in a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) survey.
St George Bank's customer Web site is still a "sitting duck" for more denial of service (DOS) attacks, according to COO John Loebenstein.
"Any Web site is a sitting duck for anyone who wants to target it," he said.
Wayne Bos, former CEO of Sausage Software, has taken the chief executive seat at investment company Mid-East Minerals.
CoShopper, a business-to-consumer (B2C) group-buying Web portal launched this week, with offers of up to 30 per cent discount off typical offline purchase prices to lure customers.
A software glitch caused some trades placed through the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) to be delayed throughout Tuesday morning.
Spike Networks, Travelshop and ISIS Communications and seven other listed technology companies, in a study of 20, have been found to have failed to comply with the Australian Stock Exchange's rules of continuous disclosure.
PC manufacturer Dell Computer has dropped the prices of some models below the $1000 mark for the first time.
Sydney-based Web site host Webcom has doubled the size of its Sydney data centre and opened new facilities in Melbourne, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
A computer retailer will stand trial for alleged fraud involving customer credit card details and supplier payment statements, according to the securities and investments watchdog.
St George Bank will pour millions of dollars into software development as part of its cost-cutting makeover and modernisation.
Australia's fifth-largest bank announced plans last week to spend $56 million on a company-wide information technology refurbishment.
"Most of the spend would be dedicated to labour costs associated with designing software for call centres, human resources, intranet and Internet," said CIO John Loebenstein.
The typical Australian Web user is young, wealthy and educated, according to a study on Internet use commissioned by Telstra.
The study, carried out by University of Canberra's National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (Natsem), found that Australians who had Bachelors degrees were at least twice as likely to be connected to the Web as those without.
An Australian technology company has taken credit for a global e-commerce standard designed to allay consumer fears, particularly of privacy and security, over the Internet.
Yet another attempt at achieving economies of scale through e-commerce was unveiled today, with the launch of Sydney-based business-to-business online exchange b2bBuyer.com.au.
A new attempt at achieving economies of scale through e-commerce was unveiled today with the launch of Sydney-based business-to-business online exchange b2bBuyer.com.au.
Local broadband media company K*Grind has taken evasive action towards rebuilding its business, with three trans-Asian strategic partnerships to be unveiled this week.