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  • Aust motoring clubs deliver digital hub

    The Australian Telematics Services Hub (ATSH) is -the digital glue that connects the dashboard, mobile phone, motorist, fleet manager, auto manufacturer or importer and content provider," according to Intelematics Australia chief executive officer Adam Game.

  • Audi's unwired booth babes boost sales leads

    Its AU$265,000 R8 supercar and newly launched S5 may be getting most of the attention at the Melbourne Motor Show this week, but Audi executives have their eyes firmly locked on a new data entry system that's helped staff collect 50 percent more viable sales leads this year than last.

  • Telstra and Infomedia deal drives e-business

    Telstra eBusiness Services has partnered with Infomedia to create a national online parts ordering system for the Australian automotive industry.

  • Rental-car snoop along for the ride

    Car renters beware: Big Brother may be riding shotgun.

  • Road rage drives into the SMS age

    Ever wanted to tell an annoying 'Sunday driver' exactly what you think of them? Ever wanted to get the phone number of the cute motorist sitting next to you at a set of lights? A new Australian SMS service may grant your wishes--for free.

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  • SMS gives new voice to NRMA members

    With so many companies focused on major IT-driven transformation, it's easy to forget that even small changes can have a big benefit. For road motoring group NRMA Motoring & Services, however, a highly focused middleware implementation project has provided a new communications channel for hearing-impaired customers.

  • Australia's dotcom pioneers: Where are they now?

    Ten years ago they were the young turks of Australia's business community; radical free-thinkers on the path to fame and riches. Shortly after, all those dreams came crashing down. But where are Australia's first dotcom moguls today, and what are they up to?

  • Victorian e-commerce sites fail audit

    An audit of e-commerce Web sites by the Victorian government has found less than one percent met all the requirements for the Commonwealth 'Best Practice' model.

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

  • At SAP, putting software in drive

    Shai Agassi has a technical mind, as one would expect of the president of product and technology for the world's largest enterprise software applications vendor, SAP.

Reviews (13)

  • Humans look to robot race

    Commentary: Cars are fun, but they kill people. Can the US defence industry help change this unendearing side effect of modern motoring?

  • Do mobile phones blind drivers?

    New research from the University of Utah has revealed a potentially lethal "tunnel vision" that drivers get while talking on a mobile phone.

  • Apple cues up iPods on a plane

    Apple Computer is in negotiations with six airlines to provide in-flight integration for the iPod.

  • Apple's patent bending

    Apple learnt its lesson when it tried - and failed - to sue Microsoft for copyright infringement of its interface. It has since turned its attention to patents but should not be allowed to succeed here either.

  • Tech Guide: Proceed with care

    When a computer breaks, think before you fix.

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