Jessica Aldred

NRMA’s two-million members will participate in a trial of online democracy later this year when the motoring and travel organisation allows them to vote online at board elections. Following a tender process, NRMA has enlisted election.com to provide online voting facilities for the NRMA Board elections to be held in September. election.com provides public and […]

Australian publishing company EMap Australia has formed an alliance with online commerce and media company Yahoo! Australia & NZ to deliver a national marketing program and enable both companies to expand their reach. The relationship between the two independent media companies will see Emap’s magazine content and offline marketing capabilities working in conjunction with Yahoo!’s […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Internet hosting service provider WebCentral has forecasted plans for a round of capital raising to fund its Asian expansion plans. As forecasted by the company late last year, WebCentral is reported to be planning a capital raising of over $20 million. Though WebCentral declined to offer an exact figure, maintaining that the amount […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Online shopping’s continual growth has accelerated over the festive season, according to the latest figures from Internet monitoring service Hitwise. Overall traffic to online Shopping and Classifieds-related Web sites rose for the month of December, capturing 3.214 percent of all Australian Internet traffic, driven by Christmas shopping and post-Christmas sales. According to Hitwise […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The popular perception that Internet companies place strong emphasis on long term incentives such as equity as a means of remunerating employees has been exposed as a myth in the Australian market. A survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has revealed that e-commerce organizations are just as likely to use short term incentives as long […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Jobnet has launched a Web site acting as a measurement resource for vacancies in the Internet industry. The site, Jobstats, which is intended for a range of users including industry bodies, job seekers and candidates and recruitment agencies, has collated the information it processes on a daily basis into an ongoing, overall picture. […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] One in five telcos and one in 12 banking and finance positions remain unfilled due to record low unemployment, according to a poll released by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu today. Resources, the specialist financial contracting unit of the global consulting firm, examines trends in the industry sectors of utilities, banking and finance, IT/telecommunications and […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The wireless industry’s major players have announced the creation of an international research body for the technology. The Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) has been founded by Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens with the objective of formulating visions on future research directions in the wireless field among industry and academia. Its other purpose […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Australia portal ninemsn has announced an alliance with account aggregation technology provider Parkers’ Edge, to launch a new service called Account Master. According to ninemsn, the launch of this service makes them the first major portal to offer consumers single sign-on access to all online banking accounts, broking accounts, airline loyalty programs and […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Virtual community software company HarvestRoad has unveiled plans to launch ConvertML, a software product designed to WAP-enable Web sites. Although telecommunications, hardware and software businesses moving into WAP technology are growing in Australia, Harvestroad said ConvertML’s competitive advantage is that it will allow a Web site owner to WAP-enable their site or portal […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Macquarie’s $35m Intellicentre has opened in Sydney, marking the first step in the company’s agenda to take advantage of one of the strongest growing demands in IT&T. The flagship data centre, opened by the NSW Minister for Information Technology, Kim Yeadon, is designed to tap into the growing demand for data centres and […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] BMCMedia has announced the signing of a deal with U.S. banner advertising network ClickHouse to sell its inventory to the U.S. market. The partnership will enable ClickHouse to market and sell BMC’s online advertising inventory to its database of small and medium-sized Network Members, and use the range of geographic targeting tools and […]