Hot on the heels of Telstra's announcement that it plans to cut 10,000 jobs over the next two years, competitor AAPT has said it will set up a $4 million regional call centre in Bendigo, Victoria.full-time jobs.
As part of its goal to be "the best" outsourcer in the Asia-Pacific, Kaz Computer Services listed on the ASX yesterday opening at $3.20, up more than 200 per cent on its one dollar issue price.
The strong growth of new technologies has boosted the half-year profits of telecommunications giant Telstra Corp. to a new record.
Software developer BMC has won a five-year $12 million contract to supply IT services giant EDS with systems management software.
US ad-serving company DoubleClick is, on average, serving 50 per cent more advertisements per day than during the fourth quarter of 1999, according to local managing director Rod Bryan.
The deadline for the second round of Austrade's "Silicon Valley eBusiness Mission Competition" is less than a month away.
Online education is emerging as a hot area of business as more training sites emerge, the latest from educational company Angus Knight with its LearnNow site (http://www.learnnow.com.au).
LearnNow features about 300 vendor-approved subjects and has courses ranging from training in basic software such as word processing or Web browsing, up to higher level engineering certificates such as Microsoft's MSCE. Other vendors include Oracle, Netscape, Novell and Cisco.
As part of its self-proclaimed "transition" into a "specialist provider of ecommerce and web-based business solutions", data communications provider NetComm has signed three new partnership deals.
US-based software developer Sybase is reshaping itself as a "total solutions" provider, according to Eric Miles, vice president and general manager of the company's business intelligence divisions.
Enterprise integration company eServ has acquired Sydney-based software development and integration company Integrator, in a move eServ hopes will boost its telco business and give it a foothold in Asia.
Almost 6.5 million Australians will access the Internet this year, however most still don't believe it's safe to use their credit cards online, according to a report by Jupiter Communications.
Local integrator, Com Tech has signed a deal with US-based Ariba to become one of the company's business-to-business provider's ASPs.
With a little over four months until the introduction of the GST, only 9 per cent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are ready for the tax, according to research by Newspoll.
Almost 6.5 million Australians will access the Internet this year, however most still don't believe it's safe to use their credit cards online, according to a report by Jupiter Communications Inc.
Internet search giant, LookSmart, made its debut on the ASX on Friday opening at $3.30, and hitting a high of $3.39.