Gambling Law Confuses Web Hosts
A Sydney e-commerce solutions company may have run afoul of new online gambling laws by providing web-hosting services for an overseas cybercasino.
A Sydney e-commerce solutions company may have run afoul of new online gambling laws by providing web-hosting services for an overseas cybercasino.
The 38-year-old politician about to take charge of Queensland's information economy has first-hand experience with the Internet's limitations.
Australians have been signing up with The .tv Corp. (DotTV) at a record clip since the U.S. company launched a radio ad campaign here two months ago.
Superficial smiles hid underlying tensions in the runup to the first meeting in Australia this week of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
eVoucher has found a sweet niche that generates revenue by cooperating with bricks-and-mortar businesses instead of competing with them. Its revenues flow from online sales of gift vouchers that can only be redeemed by using them in traditional stores.
Australia's communications minister Richard Alston has received a report that could strengthen his case for imposing a total ban on interactive gaming.
Brisbane company Orli-Tech Pty. Ltd. has received nearly A$2 million (US$1.05 million) from a venture fund operating out of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
An online branding and marketing campaign with a different flavor is scheduled to pop off agency drawing boards and into the public eye this month.
F2 interactive is holding its breath as it scrutinises traffic figures on its Australian Financial Review website this month. Since the start of December, the AFR has blocked visitors from accessing many stories unless they are subscribers to the hard copy edition of the newspaper.
Oil and gas industry suppliers are not flocking to a national procurement website supported by the industry's eight largest operators.
Only 125 contractors and suppliers have registered on the Supplybase vendor registration system (www.supplybase.com.au) site since it went into operation three months ago.
A few Internet minutes ago, it was easy to exit corporate offices with banknotes bulging from every pocket. All it required was a working knowledge of HTML, a nodding acquaintance with graphics design -- and a "you can't win it if you're not in it" mantra.
Times are tougher nowadays. Web designers still in the brochure and billboard space face cut-throat competition and ever-shrinking margins. Developers morphing into the greener fields of "full-monty" e-business solutions can't breathe easy either. Hanging on them is an industry legacy of over-promises and under-deliveries.
Retrenched Australian staffers of e-commerce integration company Rare
Medium are wondering what hit them.
Senior executives from three of Australia's largest companies share their first-hand experiences on both sides of the line dividing bricks from clicks
SAP users are still deeply confused about how and where they are supposed to fit into the 'new economy' the giant software vendor keeps talking about.
Embedded Linux may be facing a hot new rival for the hearts and minds of Internet appliance manufacturers and software developers.