Acer deal stirs GST debate
A $40 million deal negotiated by the Western Australian education department will land 14,000 Acer laptops, shorn of GST, in the homes of WA teachers.
A $40 million deal negotiated by the Western Australian education department will land 14,000 Acer laptops, shorn of GST, in the homes of WA teachers.
Focus Technologies, the techno-group painstakingly stitched together by ex-Sausage CEO Wayne Bos, is unravelling.
Internet legend Robert Elz may be poised to step down as Australia's top gun in the Internet domain space.
Eisa's successful rival bid for OzEmail leaves it virtually neck-and-neck with Telstra in terms of residential Internet subscribers. Instead of an 800,000-customer behemoth dwarfing all comers, Telstra will now level peg with eisa/OzEmail at around 400,000 subscribers each.
Australian venture capitalists dispensing cash at record rates to startup companies are still wary about giving Internet companies a group hug.
Australian venture capitalists dispensing cash at record rates to startup companies are still wary about giving Internet companies a group hug.
Finger pointing and recriminations are underway after the sensational collapse of a huge Asia-Pacific technology conference. The APEC Technomart III conference may have attracted as few as 600 delegates instead of the 30,000 promised by its organisers, according to sources. Scheduled to last for five days last week, the event shut its doors after only two and the company that organised it has gone into liquidation.
Finger-pointing and recriminations are underway after the sensational collapse of a huge Asia-Pacific technology conference.
Windows 2000 won't have all the bugs stamped out of it when it ships, confesses the man at the centre of the effort to deliver Microsoft's long-overdue new operating system.
Taiwanese company Teco has withdrawn from its Australian software venture Teco Multimedia, and joint partner Anthony McMahon has assumed control of the distribution company's business, which will now be known as ADM Distribution.
At least 10 of the top 25 Australian system, service and channel vendors will disappear either through acquisition or by withering away, while the top five enterprise resource planning (ERP) organisations will grow their market share from 55 per cent today to 80 per cent within five years. These were among the predictions espoused by Bob Hayward, Gartner Group's vice president, Asia Pacific Research in his speech at the organisation's 1998 Symposium which attracted nearly 1200 Australasian delegates this week.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released an independent consultant's report that estimates Telstra's cost of relaying other carriers' calls on its network at 3.6 cents a minute. The report also puts today's cost of creating phone lines to households and business at up to $500 a year.
Finding your niche
Aside from an initiative by mining giant Comalco, Queensland's outsourcing scene shows little signs of significant activity in either the public or private sectors. Comalco is nearing final evaluation of a number of bidders on a five-year contract covering a wide range of services.
With its corporate focus now on Web publishing and distance learning, graphics tool vendor Macromedia is restructuring its product lines in Australia. "We have so many tools that people get confused so we are consolidating our offerings to the market here," said Macromedia Asia-Pacific director, Sein Chew.