Optus Fined $3.6M While Google Gets Off Scott Free Funny thing, the law. Google Australia will get off scott-free – apart from picking up legal costs – for the conduct of its popular search engine, ruled by the Federal Court to have been "misleading" and "deceptive", while Optus Australia has been fined $3.6 million for a similar offence, also deemed to involve misleading the public – in its case in advertising claims for its broadband plans.
Is Dick Smith Electronics Worth Buying? Dick Smith is an oddball operation that was acquired by Woolworths back in 1981 but will anyone buy it in it's current state?
Senator Xenophon Accused Of Telling Big Fat Lie Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has been accused of "tellling a big fat lie" on a new web site that he has rolled out in an effort to combat a $20M campaign by Clubs Australia.
COMMENT: Age Reporter Brings Journalism Into Disrepute OPINION: Cathryn Tremain is a 52 year old Melbourne Age journalist, who, if she had been working in Christchurch today, where journalists were witnessing bodies being pulled out of buildings, people losing limbs and a great deal of people facing real stress, would by now be engaging lawyers, to sue the Age for $1.7 Million not the $700,000 she is currently trying to sue them for.
E-Shopping V In-Store, Who Wins? I've been scanning the shelves of the likes of Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi and Dick Smith recently trying to find a decent, quality yet pocket friendly notebook.
No Go On GST Harvey, But China Still An Option Gerry Harvey doth protest too much? Yes, says an angry public, who have subjected the head honcho of Harvey Norman, to an “avalanche” of criticism following his attack on the government’s GST policy on goods bought online.
Comment: Has Kogan Online Got Cash Flow Problems? COMMENT: The move by Kogan Technologies to solicit consumers to pay upfront before one of his products is manufactured in China smells more like cash flow issues than offering a consumer a big discount benefit.
Is Microsoft Yesterday’s Technology Company? COMMENT: I purchased my first piece of Microsoft software 25 years ago in December. At the time Microsoft was a brand new company and I was running a brand new PR company that had several large enterprise computing clients as customers.
COMMENT: Will the Audit Of Samsung Australia Result In Big Changes? COMMENT: The decision to fly in a Samsung Corporation audit hit squad of 13 people to audit the Australian operations of Samsung Australia appears to be a drastic move by any count or for any company.
Technology Nous Is Not A Pre Requisite To Being A Great Leader COMMENT: Today several smart arse political journalists including Kerry O'Brien on the ABC’s 7.30 Report are trying to make out that Tony Abbott is a technology nerd, despite the fact that O'Brien and a lot of other mass media journalists don’t have a clue about technology other than it’s something to do with an iPhone, iPod and searching the web.
Comment: Whats Wrong At LG OZ? COMMENT: The exit of David Brand from LG Australia was well and truly on the cards when the company was exposed by Choice Australia for fudging the truth about their products.
Why Storage World Is A Not A Very Smart Business COMMENT: What is it about Australia and the lack of service by retailers? In the US and the UK retailers go out of their way to build databases of customers and in some cases they even issue them with barcodes or cards so that regular customers get priority service.
Feds Do Nothing As Banks Hurt Small Business COMMENT: One has to seriously question whether the current Federal Government actually understands small medium business and that right now thousands of SMB organisations are starved of cash because of high interest rates and a refusal by banks to loan money to SMB organisations.
COMMENT: Should JB Hi Fi Sell Or Stick It Out? The 61% increase in revenue and the 70% increase in profits by JB Hi Fi bode well for the consumer electronic industry. It also sends a clear message that consumers are changing their buying habits with many of them prepared to spend money on games, new TV’s and notebooks than over fashion items or the occasional holiday.
Pioneer Hopes For Beijing Olympics TV Boom According to Pioneer, its KURO plasma TVs have become such ‘hot property’ that it has completely sold out all stock of its 50 inch 8th generation KURO HD plasma TV, for the remainder of the product’s lifecycle in Australia.
