Stories by David Smedley

All Ordinaries get a facelift

Dotcom startups Adultshop, InvestorWeb, Kidznet and Wine Planet were ranked among Australia's top 500 companies when the ASX kicked off its new All Ordinaries Index yesterday.

HIH invests in sure thing

Sydney-based HIH Insurance has acquired a 10 per cent holding in ecommerce insurance company SafeTrade, a company that insures against credit card fraud and the non-delivery of goods acquired on the internet

Optus kicks off B2B sites

Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) kicked off its business-to-business ecommerce platforms today with the launch of its CWO Marketsite and Enterprise BuySite.

Telcos rising -- but not enough

Local telcos outperformed the ASX All Ords by 11 per cent over the past six months; however, their results over the past year have been dismal in contrast to their US and Japanese counterparts, research by Deloitte has revealed.

Telcos rising - but not enough

Local telcos outperformed the ASX All Ords by 11 per cent over the past six months; however, their results over the past year have been dismal in contrast to their US and Japanese counterparts, research by Deloitte has revealed.

Flying kangaroo goes high-tech

Fighting to preserve its local dominance in the face of a merger between Air New Zealand, Singapore Air and Ansett, Qantas will spend $300 million on "state-of-the-art" in-flight entertainment and communications technology.

Searching for Olympic gold online

Local search giant LookSmart will be going for gold this September after it signed a deal to become the official search engine and directory provider to olympics.com.

Companies bet on net gambling

Online gambling's popularity is such a sure bet, two players, Lasseters Casino and Gamble.com, are confident their respective floats will raise millions for product development and technology.

Yahoo in the Palm of your hand

Hot on the heels of its successful Nasdaq listing and the release of its new handheld units to the local market this week, Palm Computing has signed a deal with US-based Yahoo.

Time out for AOL and AAPT

Share trading in telecommunications giant AAPT was halted yesterday after the company revealed it is in discussions with AOL "concerning AOL Australia".

Solutions giant snags Telstra deal

Ever-expanding IT solutions company Solution 6 is set to loosen its belt another notch after announcing it intends to swallow up Sausage Software in a billion-dollar takeover bid.

Online Government: Act One

While the National Party continued to raise concerns over the quality and availability of communications technology in the bush this week, the Federal Government has said it is a step closer to putting most of its services online.

Online Government Comes Closer in Australia

As part of its commitment to having a majority of government services in electronic format by 2001, the Australian federal (national) government introduced the Electronic Transactions Act (1999) and Electronic Transactions Regulations (2000) last week.

Telstra Key to Software Industry Shake-Up

Ever-expanding Australian IT software and services company Solution 6 Pty. Ltd. is set to loosen its belt another notch after announcing it intends to swallow up Sausage Software Ltd. in a billion-dollar takeover bid.

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