Most pundits accept that the high fatality rate amongst online businesses is a direct result of corporate ignorance on the part of the business owners. ZDNet Australia details the most common mistakes.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned online traders that they must comply with the same laws that apply to their real-world counterparts, following release of an online survey revealing that many sites are denying customers their legal rights.
Package deliveries slowed, online transactions ground down and customers flooded call centres as the terrorist attacks on Tuesday began to take their toll on e-commerce.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
After only a month online, Linkya is making way for Australian business people and professionals to jump on the social networking zeitgeist.
South Australian distributed backup start-up Memory Box splits up users' data and spreads it in encrypted form across many customers' PCs. But can the company build trust amongst customers who could be worried about their data being stored on other people's hard drives?
What would you do if you ran an online backup service that offered unlimited storage, and a few dozen of your customers ended up storing more than a terabyte of data each?
It is hardly surprising that Australian companies are beginning to enter the brave new world of Second Life.
In this edition of Twisted Wire we look into the user-pays model. We might pay for content if it satisfies our specialist interests, but are the major news publishers geared up to provide such a wealth of content?
Adobe's push into web-based services has delivered a windfall for Australian entrepreneur Bardia Housman, who quietly sold his company Business Catalyst to the US software maker at the start of September.
Most pundits accept that the high fatality rate amongst online businesses is a direct result of corporate ignorance on the part of the business owners. ZDNet Australia details the most common mistakes.
A Sydney Web-based business has been stripped of its registered domain name with only 24 hours notice by an administrative body, after it was found to have "wrongly lapsed" from its original owner early last year.
These strategies will help companies ensure they are distributing the kind of high-quality, actionable BI necessary to make real-time business decisions.
The managing director of VeriSign Australia, Gregg Rowley, and the CEO of SecureNet Asia-Pacific, Paul O'Rourke, go head-to-head to provide the answers.
Advances in online communication tools and contact management software are fostering new attention on call centre operations as a key tool for enterprises as they strive to build deeper relationships with their customers.
Lloyd Taylor, vice president of technical operations at LinkedIn talks about facilitating online communications between its 17 million business professionals. He also discusses his past experience building and scaling data centres at Google and how it differs from his new role.
Wotif is one of the most popular online marketplaces for last-minute hotel accommodation in Australia and New Zealand. In this interview, the company's CIO Paul Young talks about some of the important technical and business decisions he has made in order to successfully manage the infrastructure of a rapidly growing Web 2.0 company.
Actinic Business v7 is a scaleable out-of-the-box e-commerce solution that allows both individuals and companies to start selling online.
With the ReadyNAS Pro, Netgear has proven it's still king of the hill. However, some interface quirks, inelegant recovery from catastrophic volume failure, and poor volume, user and share management may put some users off.
Windows Vista Business is essentially warmed-over Windows XP. If you're currently happy with Windows XP SP2, we see no compelling reason to upgrade. On the other hand, if you need a new computer right now, Windows Vista is stable enough for everyday use.
Google Apps for Your Domain lets you brand online services with your own URL, but it doesn't eat the costs of domain registration as Microsoft Office Live does.
We may question the changes some companies make, but it is the companies that don't change that we should question.
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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Telstra shareholders fear break up
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Can the Telco Reform Act be win-win?
Has New Zealand's smiling assassin delivered?
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