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What A Storm: Harvey Norman Backs Controversial Footie Club
Melbourne Storm is to be backed by retail giant Harvey Norman – generating $3m in media coverage for the duo.

eBusiness
 
Apple iBook Price Fixing Scandal?
Apple and publishers are accused of price fixing e-books higher and has been warned to cease the practice. Or else.

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REVIEW
CeBit Visitor Numbers Slide

Visitor numbers at CeBIT fell for the fifth year in a row, organisers said on Wednesday, as the world's biggest technology and telecoms trade fair loses ground to German rival IFA.

Marketing
 
Xmas Tab War: Moto Slashes Xoom 40% $399
Motorola Xoom’s in with cut price tab deal for Christmas buyers as Telstra releases its "affordable" iPad 2 bundles starting at $49 per month. Motorola have just slashed 39% off 10.1 inch Android XOOM Wi-Fi to $399 sold at JB Hi-Fi, Harvey Norman and Costco “making it even more affordable, as well as desirable,” it announced today.

Merchandising
 
Get To Indy in October
Acer is offering resellers a chance to earn a VIP Lexmark Indy 300 Experience by selling Intel Centrino notebooks and Hyper Threading desktops.

Point Of Sale
 
Uncovered! 22 Knock-Off Apple Stores China
Think Apple goods are a rip off? Well, what goes around comes around, it seems.

Public Relations
 
Big PR Shake Up Tipped At HP
Speculation is mounting that Bite Communications, which was previously known as Upstream, has snared Hewlett Packard, one of Australia's largest technology PR accounts.

Research
 
Retail Obscured By Government Policy Claims Westpac
A new Westpac report called What’s in store claims that retail performance and consumer spending is being “badly” obscured by Government policy. They also claim that consumer spending is set to rise from a forecast 0.4% for the quarter to 0.6%, this say Westpac will deliver a bigger 'payback' later in the year.

Seminars & Conferences
Will CeBit Be Axed As Show Goes Backwards?
The New South Wales Government could cut funding to the CeBit Australia technology trade show...
» Microsoft Should Be Ashamed

iPad To Dominate Automation And E-Commerce Sectors
It seems there is no let up for tablet manufacturers looking to knock Apple off the top spot, as a Gartner report claims the iconic iPad from Apple will continue take centre stage even in the automation sector.


How To Get An Education In Apps
It's the latest trend that is sweeping the education world, mobile apps.


Clive Peeters Profits Crash 90% Sales Steady
Clive Peeters has announced a net operating profit of $1million dollars this is 90% down on the same period in 2007/2008 financial year. It follows a 29% decline by Harvey Norman earlier in the day.


JB Hi-Fi Blitz The Market
Consumer electronic retailer has blitzed the market by reporting that first-half profit rose 60 percent on sales of games, computers and DVDs. They are valso the the best performing retailer in Australia's benchmark index the past year.


CE Market Has Plunged Claims GfK
The sales value of the CE market in Australia has plunged according to research group GfK. However it does claim that the next few periods will be steady. Holing up the market is flat panel TV sales which account for nearly half of all CE sales.


News Marketing Boss Goes To M.Net
The former News Limited marketing director, Scott Johnson, will head up M.Net's local push into the mobile advertising and content service provider space


New Free Internet Measurement From Google
Google is set to take on several paid for Internet measurement companies in Australian with version 2 of its highly popular web measurement software Google Analytics.



 

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