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  • Woolies: Customers don't want mobile data

    Woolworths customers don't want data included in their mobile phone plans, according to research the retailer completed to launch its 2G wholesale mobile partnership with Optus today.

  • Woolies' NZ IT overhaul on track

    Woolworths' seven-year upgrade of its supply chain systems is nearing an end for its Australian supermarket operations, which it is now replicating across its New Zealand supermarkets, BWS and Dan Murphy, BIG W, and Dick Smith.

  • Woolies lets shoppers check themselves out

    Woolworths has announced it's rolling out technology that lets shoppers scan and pay for their own groceries but the checkout girl isn't an endangered species just yet.

  • IT gives Woolies no downtime Christmas present

    Woolworths' investment in transaction processing tech has paid off for the retail chain, after it experienced a downtime-free Christmas period.

  • Getting back to business

    Is it time to get back to business or time to come up with more excuses?

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Woolworths, the fresh mobile people

    When Coles introduced Fly Buys, Woolworths introduced Everyday Rewards. When Coles introduced petrol discount vouchers, Woolworths introduced petrol discount vouchers. It's a bold plan, but can it and Coles' inevitable copycat product change the prepaid mobile world for the better?

  • Read the blog post - Jude Willis

    Why eBay tried to screw Aussie users

    Now that the bizarre ruckus over eBay's proposed PayPal monopoly appears totalled, it seems a good time to ponder why eBay chose Australia to risk its reputation on such a massively unpopular scheme.

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  • The cost of 'free love' net neutrality

    Net neutrality has the superficial attraction of 1960's free love, argues Telstra's Justin Milne, until you realise that one party gets all the gratification while the other bears all the costs.

  • 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?

  • Patties: It's a long way to e-shop if you're making sausage rolls

    Andrew Beeson, CFO at Patties Foods, the savoury foods manufacturer famous for labels such as Herbert Adams, Nanna's and Four 'n' Twenty, explains how new ERP software keeps the factory line running smoothly.

  • Surrendering security

    Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.

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  • Surfing Free

    According to market researchers, as the new millennium arrives, widespread free Internet access will arrive with it. Both Dataquest and Datamonitor are predicting that the year 2000 will bring on the era of free Internet access that many technology pundits have been predicting for years.

  • Surrendering security

    Would you put the security of your company into someone else's hands? ZDNet Australia finds out what benefits and peace of mind a managed service can provide.

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