Internet usage trends justify maintaining a 25 cent price tag on untimed local calls, according to Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski.
The duration of the average local call in Australia has more than doubled in the past few years to seven minutes from three minutes, he told a Brisbane business luncheon yesterday.
I yield to nobody in my admiration of call centre technology. But painful personal experiences are giving rise to deep misgivings about corporate Australia's ability to lock in the benefits of this stuff.
Visitor numbers trebled when the Royal Automobile Club of Queens-land shifted its Web site this year from a first generation to a second-generation model.
IT professionals are finding their path strewn ever more thickly with legal pitfalls.
Unfair dismissal suits, breach of confidence actions, intellectual property disputes, disagreements over bonus amounts, compensation claims generated by projects that have gone sour . . . the list goes ominously on.
Internet numeric addresses are being gobbled up at an alarming rate in Australia and Asia, warns the head of the registry body that manages them.
Queensland's push to create a second coastal broadband network has cleared an important hurdle and appears back on track for completion next year.
Information security guru, Bill Caelli yesterday urged the Australian government to stress-test new computer models for security flaws in the same way safety councils crash test new cars.
A decision by one of Australia's three largest wholesale funds managers to standardise its intranet environment is paying dividends.
Key amendments to new legislation aimed at censoring the Internet have removed much of its sting as far as Internet businesses are concerned.
That is the view in influential sectors of the ISP industry although the Internet content legislation passed last week continues to provoke outrage among civil libertarians and many small ISP operators.
A Canadian expert working on the world's first national optical Internet is coming to Australia with good news and bad news for researchers looking enviously at its 40Gbit capacity.
The good news is an advanced optical network can be built using off-the-shelf commercial equipment such as Nortel optical multiplexers and Cisco GSR 12000 routers with high-speed optical interfaces.
The next 12 months will see an explosion of activity in insurance companies conducting transactions with customers over the Web, a new survey suggests.
A pioneering attempt to create an Internet trading community among Australia's pharmaceutical suppliers is running into heavy weather.
Companies hunting for hotshot young IT staff, be warned! If your corporate Web site looks stodgy, your star candidate probably won't bother turning up for the interview. That's because topping up salary packages with toys, training and stock options is only part of the recruiting game these days.
The $70 million earmarked for regional electronic transaction centres in the federal budget fails to address regional Australia's underlying telecommunications problem, critics claim.
Payroll software specialist Dynamique Systems Inc (DSI), is tacking a new kind of price tag on the Windows-based successor to its elderly QED system.