With literally hundreds of Web development tools on the market today, choosing technology can be a formidable challenge for Web developers and end users alike. Caitlin Fitzsimmons reports on how Web developers choose their tools and examines the opportunities for the traditional channel to sell into the Web space
Caitlin Fitzsimmons talks to Davyd Norris, software engineering specialist at Rational Software, about UML
US-based games publisher THQ has opened a Melbourne sales office in a bid to ramp up its retail presence in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian domain name registrar NetRegistry is planning a public listing for later this year to fund an expansion into Japan and Korea.
Last week's decision by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to add new top-level domain names to the ubiquitous .com, .net and .org has been met with mixed reaction from Australian domain registration companies.
In a bid to raise awareness of their products and strengthen relationships with developers, vendors are offering increasingly comprehensive developer programs.
The Federal Government has granted more than $3.7 million in a commercialisation loan to help Web development firm Bullant Technology go to market.
Net legal no badland'
Australian and international Internet usage is following US patterns of the past two years, according to the latest figures from Nielsen//NetRatings.
Adelaide-based software developer Maxamine has appointed Singapore-based Boustead IT to manage its distribution network in Australia and the Asia Pacific, leaving Maxamine free to develop its US expansion strategy.
The Federal Government has granted more than $3.7 million in a commercialisation loan to help Web development firm Bullant Technology go to market.
A new player in online auctions has landed on the Australian marketplace, and it won't be selling a thing! Boston-based FairMarket last week launched its new Australian subsidiary with offices in North Sydney and a new hosting centre at the Optus facility in Rosebury.
Australian company 3d3.COM has signed a $1.2 million a year deal with Japanese distributor Xlsoft, which will see the company's Internet shop builder, Shop Factory, become the first international "shop in a box solution" distributed in Japan.
A Perth-based Web software developer, HarvestRoad, has secured a strategic deal with Red Hat Linux, which will see HarvestRoad software rolled out with Red Hat products across the Asia-Pacific region.
Melbourne IT's share price jumped 45 cents by mid afternoon yesterday, following news of the announcement that its domain name registration business, Internet Names WorldWide, has licensed the rights to provide Chinese character-based domain names.
