Jessica Aldred

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Ericsson Australia is driving local R&D with the launch of a competition designed to encourage a range of business sizes to develop innovative workplace communications applications. With $45,000 set as total prize money, the inaugural ‘Ericsson Innovation Awards’ are expected to assist Australian companies to recognize research and development (R&D) within their organizations, […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Cable & Wireless Optus has celebrated the first birthday of its WAP service with the release of a survey examining “what’s hot” on WAP. E-mail has proven to be the most popular service on the Optus Networker, but news, financial information and lifestyle-oriented services were also highly sought, according to CWO’s Mobile Internet […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Content provider HWW will provide Australian Property Monitors, its 50:50 joint venture with John Fairfax, with an online home property information service for its banking and financial services customers. The value-added service will enable banks and other lenders to obtain a price estimate of a property in a matter of minutes, based on […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The IBM Sydney e-Business Innovation Centre has opened its doors for business this week, aiming to provide industry specific solutions to help companies use e-business for improved profitability. From the centre in Pyrmont, the initiative undertaken by IBM Global Services will bring together skills, knowledge and experience to allow customers to actually see […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Wishlist has emerged as the big winner at this year’s AFR Australia Internet Awards, taking home prizes in both the e-commerce and most entrepreneurial achievement categories from the ceremony in Sydney last night. After all the gloom, doom and speculation of the future of online retailing, with dstore now looking like the next […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Online retailer Just Jeans will use U.S.-based e-commerce provider InterWorld’s Commerce Suite to power its Peter Alexander Sleepwear, Just Jeans and JacquiE Web sites. The retailer said it had chosen InterWorld’s e-commerce solution for its pre-packaged functionality which will enable Just Jeans greater speed to market and scaleable flexibility to develop the site […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Sydney-based entertainment and online media company Tribe has completed its second round funding with a capital raising of AUS$17 million. The funding has seen the recommitment of United Distillers and Vintners (UDV), a subsidiary of U.K.-listed Diageo and financial institution J.P. Morgan, together with follow-on investment from Tribe’s chief executive officer and founder […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The IT & T Skills Exchange, together with Communications Minister Senator Richard Alston, today launched a national study into the supply and demand of IT & T skills in Australia, with a goal to examine any implications the skills shortage may have on the nation’s economy. Announcing the study, the chief executive officer […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] BMCMedia, Telstra and the Fantastic Corporation are among a group of companies who have formed the Australian Broadband Media and Advertising Alliance (BMAA), established for the development of standards for the placement of interactive advertising in broadband channels distributed to homes and businesses. The direction for the next generation of online advertising and […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Westpac Banking and Cable & Wireless Optus have teamed up to deliver a multi-carrier WAP banking service. Westpac customers using the service are now able to view their account lists, check balances and transfer funds via both the Optus and Telstra services. “WAP services have the potential to boost the popularity and usage […]

Measurement and research firm Red Sheriff will end this year on a high, announcing an increase in its third round funding to total of just under AUS$40 million (US$ 20.58 million). The additional funding of AUS$3.5 million (US$1.8 million) coming from Ericsson-Deutsche Technology Fund today will add to the AUS$34 million ($US 17.5 million) raised […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Market research firm ACNielsen has acquired local Internet research company www.consult, in a move intended to strengthen the company’s leadership in the e-research field in the Asia Pacific. www.consult provides a range of Internet research services, including a regional online user survey and sector reports covering online brokering and banking, advertising, retailing and […]