Paul Montgomery

The Australian government is expected to face a hostile reception Tuesday night from Internet industry representatives as its content censorship legislation is debated at what promises to be a fiery Senate committee hearing. The Internet Industry Association (IIA) is expected to be the harshest critic in its submission to the hearing of the Senate Select […]

Australian banks have chosen Baltimore, a partly-local multinational, as the preferred vendor of digital certificates for their payment clearing activities. Baltimore won a tender to provide certification technology and services put out by the Australian Payments Clearing Association (APCA), which is owned by an alliance of Australian banks, building societies and credit unions. The APCA […]

On the day that Microsoft detailed its e-commerce strategy, Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer took up the Internet cudgel for his company while visiting Australia. Speaking in Sydney, Pfeiffer showed great relish in predicting US$50 billion in revenues for Compaq in the year 2000, saying that this would be on the back of the vendor attaining […]