Parallels Open Doors Down Under Parallels, the company which enables the use of Windows on Macs, has opened new offices in Australia and New Zealand.
Big Savings On Solar For Johnson & Johnson Staff Energy Matters, the retail division of Apollo Energy which together with Sanyo installed Australia's largest commercially-funded solar panel installation at Johnson & Johnson Medical’s HQ in North Ryde, is extending a special deal to the company’s employees to save money as part of the Johnson & Johnson solar project.
Sanyo Aims To Be A Hit In Clean Energy Solutions The rooftop solar panel grid system installed at Johnson & Johnson Medical’s North Ryde HQ uses Sanyo’s unique patented HIT technology, providing one of the world’s highest conversion efficiencies, according to Sanyo’s Group Manager, Environmental Division, Paul Reeves.
ACCC Nobbles Horse Betting Group The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has nobbled a horse betting operation who was using software that they believed was likely to mislead or decieve consumers after they claimed punters could earn between $50,000 to $70,000 working from home.
Qantas Trials Next Generation Check In System In Perth Qantas is trialling its Next Generation Check-in system at its domestic terminal at Perth Airport, with around 100,000 Qantas Frequent Flyers invited to take part.
Social Networking A Gateway For Criminals, Says Expert LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and social networking in general are proving to be a gateway for criminals trawling the internet for information that can be exploited to do harm to both businesses and consumers, according to security analysts.
Qantas Expands Fleet For Regional Services Qantas and Bombardier Aerospace, headquartered in Canada, have sealed a deal for the purchase of seven new Q400 NextGen aircraft to be delivered from 2011.
Qantas Opens New Airport Domestic Transfer Facility Qantas has launched a new domestic transfer facility at Sydney International Airport that will enable faster transfers for international travellers transferring to Qantas domestic flights.
Nielsen To Measure Yahoo7 Online Video Traffic Yahoo7 announced that it is the first company in Australia to sign up for independent third-party video measurement services with Nielsen.
HD Video Conferencing For Businesses LifeSize Communications have announced a new video capture and broadcast system that enables High-Definition video to be accessible anywhere.
Blockbuster Oz Experiences Rental Growth The Franchise Entertainment Group announced that its 320 Blockbuster stores achieved 3.5 per cent rental business growth in the 2009 calendar year.
Foxtel Earnings Rise 21 Per Cent Foxtel has announced a 21 per cent uplift in earnings for the six months to 31 December 2009, supported by continued strong subscriber uptake of the FOXTEL iQ, High Definition and Multiroom services.
Telstra Gets 1.3 Million Wireless Broadband Customers Telstra announced that it now has 1.3 million wireless broadband customers. This increase of customers, according to the company, is driven by the demand for prepaid wireless broadband which was launched in September 2008.
Qantas Flies To The Slopes Qantas announced that it will offer flights to Mt Hotham, one of Australia’s most popular Alpine regions, this ski season.
Yahoo7 Acquires Travel Website Yahoo!7 announced that it has acquired leading online travel marketplace, totaltravel.com. Totaltravel.com has 167,000 listings across multiple travel-related categories including accommodation, restaurants, events, shops and attractions as well as premium travel content.
Sheraton Waikiki The Hotel From Hell COMMENT: If you’re looking for a quit vacation in Hawaii where you can soak up the noise of breaking waves from your ocean front room or breakfast in a 5 star hotel the answer is definitely not the Sheraton Waikiki.
Australian Confidence Rebounds Australians are more confident about the next 12 months. This is what Roy Morgan says in its recently published weekly Consumer Confidence rating.
Facebook Expands To Oz Facebook has opened an advertising sales office in Sydney and appointed Paul Borrud as Regional Vice President for Australia and New Zealand.
Google Stimulates Small Businesses Google is giving small and medium enterprises a free $75 search marketing campaign as part of its business stimulus offer.
IDC Revises IT Value Forecast Down IDC expects the overall ICT business market in Australia to reach a value of almost $47 billion by 2012, down from the 2008 forecast of $48 billion, in a report made available today.
What Good Customer Service Really Is Finding new customers is much more expensive than retaining existing ones. Customer service is more than just keeping customers happy. It's about revenue, because a lost customer means lost revenue and an unhappy customer can damage your reputation.
Ingram Micro & Dell Warn Of IT Meltdown This morning two of the worlds biggest computer vendors, Dell and Ingram Micro, are warning that demand for IT products was weakening, which in turn would hurt both corporate and consumer spending.
Home-Based Contact Centres To Double Remote and home based contact centre agents will more than double in the next two years according to a Contact Centre Optimisation Survey conducted by Integ Communications at the recent G-Force conference.
Apple Store Chadstone To Open Soon The Apple Store at the Chadstone Shopping precinct in Victoria is due to open on Saturday, 13 September.
QuickBooks Goes Online For The iPhone According to macworld.com, QuickBooks Online for the iPhone has been released, which allows the viewing of all financial information from iPhone’s Safari web browser.
Vodafone Gets SMB Street Cred With New Alliance People Telecom and Vodafone have signed a three-year deal for the supply of mobile voice, mobile email and mobile broadband services, which should go some way in increasing Vodafones business market share, according to the players involved.
Ingram Micro Enters The Unwired World Resellers of Ingram Micro will now be able to offer their customers an internet enabled consumer home and office solution after Ingram Micro has agreed to distribute wireless broadband products from the range available through Unwired Australia.
3Com & Westcon Divorce Over Direction Issues 3Com Corporation, a leading provider of secure converged networking (SCN) solutions and Westcon Group, an IT distributor specialising in networking technology, solutions for convergence, security and storage, have announced that they have mutually agreed to terminate their partnership agreement in Australia, expected to take effect by the end of August.
Fixed Price-Per-Page Printing Service PagePack is a new Managed Print Service (MPS) that Fuji Xerox has launched aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses.
Telstra Increases Data Download Limits In a move sure to up the ante with its rivals, Telstra has released increased download limits on most data plans on its Next G network. Long the bane of tech aficionados, the increase in amount download is sure to get a reaction from Optus and Vodophone.
Blackberry Bold For Optus 3G Network Blackberry Bold will be the first Blackberry smartphoone to support tri-brand HSDPA high-speed networks when it becomes available on the Optus 3G network from August 20.
New Vodofone Rates While Travelling Overseas Vodofone Traveller is a new voice roaming pricing platform offered to Vodafone customers that are travel overseas, which covers most destinations that Australians travel to, including New Zealand, the UK, Singapore and China.
Rydges Hotel And McDonalds Named And Shamed Rydges Hotel in North Sydney and several McDonald outlets are among businesses that have been named and shamed by the NSW government.
Canon Using Kiwi Prisoners To Fix Printers It seems the Chinese are not the only ones using prison labour, for according to www.scoop.co.nz, Canon New Zealand has announced an agreement with the NZ Department of Corrections that will see prison inmates trained to assemble and dismantle its machines.
Lenovo Signs Dicker Data For SMB Channel In a move the company says is “designed to expand its distribution reach within the small to medium business market in Australia”, Lenovo has announced Dicker Data as its new SMB-focused distributor in Australia.
Mobile Advertising Set To Explode In Australia At present, the mobile advertising market in Australia is very much in its infancy with total revenues reaching just $2.5 million in 2007.
GFK Starts Playing Games With Retailers GfK has moved into the games business with the aquisition of the majority shares of the shares market research company Chart-Track Limited, a leading provider of retail information for games software.
Top Asia-Pacific Search Engines Revealed According to comScore, Google sites led the region with 39.1 per cent of all searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! With 24 per cent and Baidu.com at 16.7 per cent.
Telstra Launches Small Business Service Telstra is launching a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform called T-Suite to supply on-demand business applications more efficiently to Australian businesses.
Mining Boom Equals IT Boom For those IT distributors who think that digging holes in the ground and selling laptops are not related, think again, as Queensland-based Infortech Distribution has found that the two industries are virtually linked at the hip.
AV In NZ Booming Says IDT MD According to the managing director of IDT, Gerry Wilkins, the New Zealand audio-visual market is showing strong growth with a very positive vibe.
Google Becomes A Business App According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Google is trying new ways to win over business customers with its latest attempt involving helping companies dig out search results that are buried deep within their own Web sites.
Australians Forced To Register 72 Hours Before Entering USA Australian visitors to the United States will have to register their trip with the American government 72 hours before they leave, it will be announced tomorrow by US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff and will take effect from January 2009. The registrations will be able to be made online.
Tabcorp Facing A Rough Time Ahead At Jupiters COMMENT: It’s amazing how the Australian tourism industry who has powerful lobby groups expect Federal and State government to bail them out when there is a market downturn or when tourism is taking a downer because visitors who have been here before refuse to come back or alternatively have told their friends that Australia is expensive and delivers “lousy” service for the price they are asked to pay.
Myspider Weaves Job Aggregates Web Myspider is a specialised job search engine which aggregates job content from approximately 100 job sites around Australia.
Ingram Micro Gets Creative Ingram Micro has pumped up the reseller volume with the appointment of Creative Labs as its newest supplier.
CNET Sold For A Song US news and information network CBS has agreed to buy technology publishing company CNET Networks which operates sites including News.com, ZDNet, GameSpot, TV.com and MP3.com, in a deal valued at $US1.8 billion.
MYOB Moves Into Online Services MYOB has moved into the online services sector with its new business grade web hosting solutions, paving the way for its back office business management systems to integrate with small business websites, the company says.
New Search Engine Service Launched Today Fairfax Digital and Melbourne IT have combined to form a new joint venture called Advantate, designed to give the SME market in Australia and New Zealand simple, cost-effective access to search engine marketing services.
Telstra Throws In The Towel Against ACCC The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said only minutes ago that Telstra has dropped its appeal against findings that the marketing of its Next G mobile phone network was misleading.
