Alicia Camphuisen

Telecommunications carrier Telstra has partnered with the Federal Government in a new project to trial broadband digital services among residents of the Tasmanian city of Launceston, in a new push behind uptake of the technology. The organisations’ joint effort, called the Launceston Broadband Project, has three components. The first, a multimedia development laboratory called B-elab, […]

The IT skills shortage many companies within the Internet industry are complaining of today may not go away quickly, according to a Victorian government report that indicates many students believe IT to be “boring.” The Victorian Government’s report, Reality Bytes, has found that while the number of students enrolling in IT is up on figures […]

The final segment of the Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) has entered into service, enabling the company to deliver 120Gb per second fully protected capacity between Australasia and the United States via its dual cable system. The 4127km section, between Spencer Beach in Hawaii and Morro Bay in California, completes SCCN’s loop consisting of a […]

South Australian governments are aiming to streamline their purchasing and cut associated costs after selecting an e-procurement solution to power the statewide eCouncils.com initiative. eCouncils.com will use Strategic Ecommerce’s StraightBUY procurement solution to integrate with the various financial management packages used by the initiatives member councils. The South Australian-developed e-procurement software, which was developed with […]

Information Services company RP Data has acquired real estate site property.com.au, relieving publisher PMP Communications of the site while boosting its own presence in the online property market. Under the deal, RP Data will pay $3.5 million cash for property.com.au, $500,000 of which will be paid over the next two years in exchange for property-related […]

Internet security services provider eSign Australia has opened its first authorized training centre in e-commerce security outside the US, with the centre opened in Melbourne in a move to respond to Australias IT skills shortage. The centre, which was opened by parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Sentor Ian […]

[SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA]–Brisbane-based enterprise applications developer Mincom has acquired a controlling interest in yesresources, which owns the yesresources.com mining portal and virtual marketplace for Australias exploration, mining, oil, gas and project engineering sectors with industry news. yesresources will provide Mincom with a portal strategy and the skills to service its mining customer base with its enterprise […]

Dot coms may be suffering a suspicious market and cutting back staff to weather the storm, but the IT sector remains confident of job growth, according to Morgan & Banks’ February-April quarterly report. According to the report, 59.1 per cent of IT firms were confident of hiring staff in the next quarter while 4.3 per […]

Shopping centre giant Westfield has shelved its drawn-out plans for an online version of its Shoppingtown chain, with claims by the company it could go ahead with the model in future. Westfield spent $5 million developing its online mall, which it announced a year ago. Its announcement to halt this work follows local online mall […]

Bandwidth wholesaler Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) is preparing for capacity upgrades to its service, after a latest round of capacity sales worth US$443 million resulting from customer meetings in Hawaii last August. The sales brings SCCN’s total capacity sales to more than US$1.6 billion, after the wholesaler launched its trans-Pacific high bandwidth network last […]

[SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA]Telstra has completed its alliance with Hong Kong’s Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW), after almost a year of negotiations and amendments to the deal. As was proposed last April and outlined last October (and as was reported on australia.internet.com – see story), Telstra and PCCW will establish three joint ventures as part of their relationship. […]

Secondary industry firm Australian Technology Securities (ATY) will take a 51 per cent minimum share in wireless services provider dotWAP.com, with the option to acquire the entire business down the track. ASX-listed activated carbons producer and marketer ATY has made a two-tiered offer to dotWAP shareholders, offering up to 33 of its shares for each […]