Karen Stuart

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Melbourne IT chief executive officer, Professor Peter Gerrand has announced he will leave the company as of September 30. Gerrand was the founding CEO and managing director of Australia’s largest domain name registrar for four and a half years. The company’s chief operating officer, Adrian Kloeden, has been appointed as the new CEO. […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The number of dot com companies floating on the ASX will almost halve this financial year, according to consultancy firm KPMG’s 1999-2000 capital markets survey. The survey claims that 1999 to 2000 will be remembered as the year of the dot com floats, with 54 Internet-based businesses listing on the sharemarket and raising […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] C7 Pty Limited has lodged a complaint with ACCC, reporting an access dispute with Telstra Multimedia and Foxtel over access to Telstra’s cable network to provide pay television services. The Federal Court recently upheld the ACCC’s decision to make the carriage of pay TV services over the Telstra cable network a declared service […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Broadband service provider Quadtel Limited has won a preferred supplier contract with Telstra for ADSL modems. Quadtel expects the preferred supplier status to be worth $4 million in the year 2000, increasing to beyond $10 million by mid 2001. Telstra is currently rolling out a $200 million ADSL infrastructure which was commercially launched […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Eisa Limited today announced that its provisional unaudited loss before tax for the 6 months to June 30, 2000 would exceed $40 million on a turnover of $9 million. “Well over 50 percent of the loss relates to costs incurred in relation to the aborted takeover bid for OzEmail,” said Ian Timmis, eisa’s […]

Melbourne IT and Ericsson Australia have announced an agreement to create a joint venture company to develop mobile Internet and secure mobile e-commerce applications. The joint venture is based on a group of 70 software engineers which has operated as ASAC (Advanced Services Application Centre) for over five years as an unincorporated venture between the […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Following in the footsteps of B2B consortiums which aim to offer members lower costs by consolidating buying power, Scandinavian company CoShopper.com has launched its consumer discount-buying site for the Australian market. Products on the site including computers, communications equipment, fashion, homewares and sports equipment will be offered at bulk discounts, with the size […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The Commonwealth Bank Group, Woolworths Limited, Lion Nathan, EDS Australia and the Telecom New Zealand Group, (which includes TCNZ Australia and AAPT) have signed a heads of agreement to set up an online procurement buying hub creating a new company called Cyberlynx Procurement Services Pty Ltd. “The exciting thing about Cyberlynx is that […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Both Cable & Wireless Optus and Webcom have announced data center expansions this week. Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) has signed an MoU with Nortel Networks to build a Sydney data center for the Australian hosting and application service provider (ASP) markets. Webcom has doubled the size of its Sydney Data Center and […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] Cable & WIreless Optus subsidiary XYZed has launched its wholesale DSL service, announcing equipment rollout to 50 exchanges, with 50 more to come. XYZed claimed its service would reach approximately 75 percent of Australian businesses. “The US experience shows DSL will be the largest competitor for broadband services in the business market.,” said […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The NAB’s incubation business O2-e Limited has taken a $10 million equity stake in Peakhour, announcing an investment and distribution affiliation with the ASP platform provider. Peakhour completed a $40 million second capital raising and said the deal with NAB would enable the bank to take advantage of its e-commerce offerings. O2-e managing […]

[Sydney, AUSTRALIA] The federal government introduced the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill 2000 into the senate, part of which attempts to clarify the powers of the government in relation to “electronic addressing” services such as Internet domain names. If passed, the government claimed, it will clarify existing provisions in the Telecommunications Act 1997 for the Australian […]