Gerard Knapp

Australian online music retailer ChaosMusic is seeking to drive consumer interest in its first major promotional campaign that will give away AUS$30,000 (US$18,000) worth of music. This marketing exercise is a reinvestment of some of the AUS$3.1 million (US$1.9 million) the retailer recently raised from FTR Holdings, local leisure promoter Sports and Entertainment Limited (SEL), […]

Australia Tuesday unveiled the first domestic site for secure electronic transactions (SET), with Visa, the ANZ Bank, e-commerce solution provider Creative Digital Technology (CDT), and Data General Australia & New Zealand, jointly launching a consumer-centric e-commerce project. The endeavour, which incorporates technology that according to Data General has not been used in Australia before, will […]

One of Australia’s leading financial institutions, St George Bank, has announced plans to launch a non-advisory online stockbroking service. The Quicktrade service will be launched in October and users will be able to register within the next two months. St George will work with HSBC Bank to provide Quicktrade, a St George branded and tailored […]

Geoff Huston, one of the handful of technicians who established the Internet in Australia, was chosen to become the new chair of the Internet Society (ISOC). Huston said he would emphasise the theme “the Internet is for everyone” when he was elected at ISOC’s INET’99 conference last week. “I look forward to guiding our unique […]

Australian telecommunications carrier Telstra will participate in a consortium that is planning a major new international submarine cable to cater for the country’s Internet, voice, high speed data and multimedia services demands. The proposed Australia-Japan cable would link the east coast of Australia to Japan, a distance of 10,200 km. From there it would connect […]

Commercial Dynamics, owner of the Trading Post Web site and publisher of the Trading Post newspaper, has announced it will shortly be launching a new Education Network Australia (EdNA) classified service. To be launched in July, EdNA Classifieds offers online searching and a range of employment opportunities in schools, TAFE colleges, private colleges and universities […]

E*Trade Australia has promised up to 40 percent of its equity to the ANZ Bank in exchange for access to ANZ’s four million customers. The alliance gives ANZ, which is one of the four large banks which dominate the Australian financial industry, great incentive to help E*Trade’s marketing effort by tying their stock entitlements to […]

E-commerce, multimedia and Internet tools developer Sausage Software has announced plans to acquire trade hub specialist Open Trade Network (OTN) Australia in a bid to increase the scope of services on offer to clients. Sausage Software director Wayne Bos said the acquisition represents “another step in Sausage’s strategy to become a leading provider of e-commerce […]

The latest survey to be released in Australia has shown that online properties produced by newspaper publishers are attracting the same demographic as the traditional forms. According to the results of the Online Readership Survey conducted by Sydney-based APT Strategies, there is a high degree of duplicated readership among the leading sites which are aiming […]

Australian Internet tools developer Sausage Software plans to acquire Melbourne Web design company Creative Access. The announcement follows Sausage’s recent acquisition of Web design and publishing business Electric Alchemy and subsequent formation of the company’s specialist multimedia division, Sausage Interactive. Sausage director Wayne Bos said the acquisition, combined with Sausage’s existing Web design and multi-media […]

travel.com.au has launched skitravel.com.au, the first in a series of new niche travel sites to be released over the coming months. skitravel.com.au will serve as a 24-hour online service which will allows users to view all the information a skier would look for when planning a holiday including resort statistics, and booking and transport information. […]

Quicken.com.au announced major developments to its online share trading service in a bid to challenge Commonwealth Securities (ComSec) for leadership in the online trading market. As part of the initiative, Quicken.com.au has launched a new low cost trading service known as Quick.Broker provided by Hartley Poynton, one of Australia’s leading retail stockbrokers. Quick.Broker matches the […]