The Special Minister of State, Gary Nairn, has acknowledged that the e-government strategy released last week is a "bold plan", and encouraged private sector providers to come forward with skills or products to enable it to be implemented.
Customer service at the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is still not making the grade despite an AU$1.5 billion, three-year transformation project nearing the end of its life, according to new CBA chief Ralph Norris.
The Commonwealth Bank today launched a pilot for the new version of its Internet banking product NetBank, Australia's most popular online banking service.
Sensis plans in late April to unveil a set of enhancements to its Web search engine that the Telstra subsidiary says makes its service uniquely capable of detecting Australian content
The Bureau of Meteorology has upgraded its Web-based rain radar service, adding enhanced maps and finer grades of rain to a service that Hitwise already ranks as the most popular and fastest-growing educational and government Web site in Australia.
An online video start-up launched by three Australian entrepreneurs (including,apparently, an old acquaintance of mine from university) has been bought by Google subsidiary YouTube for a reported US$15 million.
Will Internode's (sudden) and dramatic price hike for its broadband plans undo the G9's plans for an affordable, high-speed broadband network?
Online job search engine Seek is warning users not to fall for a scam that uses a bogus company name called "Plasma Project" and claims to be powered by Seek.
The corporate Web site is gone and a hacker has made off with the database. The company's reputation is at stake. What crisis management tactics should be employed?
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ILM is the future of storage (or so we're told). But what is it? How do you get it? The details may still be a bit sketchy but that doesn't necessarily mean you can afford to put considerations to the side.
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
The first test version of the new email software blocks external content in Web-based email.
Microsoft has released its second collection of bug fixes, or service pack, to Office XP, the company has confirmed.
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The Adobe Acrobat PDF format has been wildly successful because it combines all the convenience of an electronic document with the familiarity of a paper printout. The latest version of Acrobat adds a host of new features that make PDFs more secure, easier to re-purpose, and more suitable for workgroup collaboration.
Microsoft slams Google on privacy
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