Karen Stuart

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] A record number of multimedia and Web development companies are currently under investigation according to the Business Software of Australia Association (BSAA), an industry body formed to combat software theft and piracy in Australia. Legal proceedings and software audits are underway following a surge in reports to the BSAA hotline. According to Jim […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Melbourne IT will attempt to boost its flagging share price in the face of impending competition in the .com.au domain name market the launch of a new service, multilingual.com. The service enables the prefix characters in a domain name to be written in the language of the country of origin and combines this […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued legal proceedings against an Internet cafi business which it has accused of price fixing. According to the ACCC, Trevor Davis International Pty Ltd, Mans Davis Holdings Pty Ltd, Mr. Trevor Davis and Mr. Daniel Mans were involved in the attempted fix on behalf of Idle […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Following its parent company Bertlesmann’s new digital direction, BMG Australia has signed a deal with digital audio player manufacturer SONICblue to make promotional tracks from the label’s artists available for free timed-limited download in Windows Media format. The 14 tracks, including music from John Farnham, Bachelor Girl, You Am I and Guven, will […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Macquarie Corporate Telecommunications has launched a corporate DSL service offering both ADSL and HDSL. Macquarie CEO, David Tudehope, said the Australian corporate market was yet to realize the full business benefits of DSL. “Up until now the Australian DSL market offering has been primarily directed to the home Internet user, residential customers, telecommuters […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Oracle Australia and Higher Ed Systems have launched Learn-IT Online, an initiative to provide Australian universities with access to 600 IT industry certification and professional development training courses, learner management software, and support services. The initiative was endorsed by the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee and launched by senator Richard Alston. According to Phil Kiely, […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Phoneware Online has acquired Australian ISP Blue Planet for $1.8 million in cash and shares. Phoneware expects the acquisition to expand its ISP subscriber base in the residential and small-to-medium enterprise (SME) markets. Phoneware will also take advantage of Blue Planet’s billing facilities as part of the deal, a move it said will […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] A man has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to charges of posting misleading investment information to discussion boards and mass “spam” emails. Steven Hourmouzis of Donvale, Victoria was charged by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) relating to e-mails and postings transmitted in May 1999 regarding a U.S. […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Melbourne IT has changed its registration process in a move it says will ease the registration process of .com.au domain names for small- to medium-sized Australian businesses. From this month, Melbourne IT, which holds a monopoly in the com.au market, will accept an Australian Business Number (ABN) as a criteria to secure a […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Australian company inter-touch claims to have become the largest provider of broadband Internet access services to the hospitality industry with the announcement today of a deal with Bass Hotels & Resorts, which owns chains Inter-Continental Hotels and Resorts, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts and Holiday Inn. Up to 120,000 rooms in the Asia […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Cisco Systems has launched a recruitment-based push into the Australian IT market with the introduction of a Job Fair designed to introduce graduates of its Networking Academies training program to major information technology companies. The Job Fair will be held in Melbourne on October 24 and in Sydney on October 31. Hundreds of […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] 24/7 Media has formed a partnership with BTLookSmart in a move designed to spearhead LookSmart’s Asian push. The companies will aim to provide an online advertising one-stop-shop across Asian countries including Japan and Korea, with expansion to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and New Zealand planned. BTLookSmart is a global joint venture of […]