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    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.

  • Do not call register to go ahead

    Telemarketers will have to abide by a national Do Not Call register in 2007, after the federal government announced it would soon introduce legislation to protect consumers.

  • Web directory under fire from WA minister

    Western Australia's Minister for Consumer Protection, John Kobelke, has issued a public warning about Web-based business service Australian Trade Register, describing its services as "questionable".

  • Debian trademark policy under question

    The leader of the Debian Linux distribution has called for changes to be made to the open-source project's trademark policy, to ensure it has the appropriate level of protection against legal challenges.

  • US reaches Net detente with UN

    The Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunisia have inked a broad agreement on global Internet management that will preclude any dramatic showdown this week.

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  • Read the blog post - Brad Howarth

    Aussie start-up execs hit Silicon Valley

    The global financial crisis might have tarnished some of Silicon Valley's lustre, but for many Australian technology entrepreneurs who have migrated to the US, it hasn't lost its bright shiny status.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Cash cow in a BigTinCan?

    Around one third of Australia's telcos have shut their doors over time, but that isn't stopping new ventures hoping to chip away at carriers' mobile call bonanza. By fighting carriers at the smartphone rather than the home phone, could the latest two contenders be onto something big?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra's iPhone-free parallel universe

    Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    The more things change...

    With all the excitement over the iPhone, few people have noticed that 1 July was the 11th anniversary of the deregulation of Australia's telecommunications market.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Microsoft taking us for mugs

    The trademark registration system is pretty ancient, so it's no surprise that technology trademarks wind up in some unusual categories.

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  • Property business sunk after domain dispute

    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.

  • Managing your move into mobility

    With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

  • Death by software

    Craig Errey, our guest columnist from PTG Global, discusses how to avoid spending too much time and money on enterprise software implementations.

  • Banking on outsourcing

    The Bank of Queensland is in the midst of a $480 million outsourcing partnership with EDS which has seen the bank's profits double in the last three years.

  • Contact management packages reviewed

    We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.

Reviews (134)

  • Desktop dream machines

    RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.

  • Contact management packages reviewed

    We look at which product can help improve customer satisfaction.

  • Citrix GoToMeeting

    GoToMeeting is a first-rate basic Web conferencing program that's priced right for small to large businesses hoping to minimise travel costs.

  • Enterprise PDA phones reviewed

    The new wave of hybrid PDA business phones are here. The gadget gurus from RMIT decide who talks the talk.

  • Dantz Retrospect 6.5 for Windows

    Small businesses new to networks and backups will appreciate Dantz Retrospect, but more experienced users should look elsewhere.

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