THE paperless office was a dream of the 1980s, but despite our enthusiasm for new technology and the popularity of email, 90 per cent of documentation is still on paper.
BY 2003 the IT industry expects us to be sending 18 billion emails a day - up from an estimated five billion a day we were clocking up at the end of 1999.
LAST week’s story on sailing enthusiasts Nick Randolph and Meg Delahoy’s award winning Your Club Online plan should have referred to Nedlands Yacht Club not Mounts Bay Yacht Club.
FAIR Trading Comm-issioner Patrick Walker issued a warning this week about the online site Payline, saying anyone encouraged to sign on should contact the Ministry.
THE ever-evolving online financial organisation Sanford Limited has announced the launch of Online Capital Partners (OCP) which they claim is the first dedicated online investment bank in Australia.
A LOVE of sailing, an inefficient club membership system and knowledge of technology won two UWA students a $7,500 prize in the inaugural WA Business Planning Competition.
SANFORD Limited, Perth’s on-line transaction pioneer, has signed a contract to provide its B2B product, Virtual Broker, to Tower Trust Limited, which has AUS$4.4B of assets under management and administration.
HOW to take advantage of the rapidly developing market of IT service providers is the thrust of a seminar to be presented by US outsourcing expert Professor Rudy Hirschheim.
AMCOM Telecommunications Limited (ASX: AMM) says it is on track to achieve and possibly exceed its projected revenue and earnings for the 2001 financial year.
THE offer by US billionaire Don Panoz to bring one of his Le Mans Asia-Pacific races to Perth has far wider ramifications than the potential $87 million in tourism it could bring each year.
WAVENET Technologies (ASX WAL), the Perth-based developer of a data wireless cradle for Palm Pilots, has signed a US$3 million deal with the American data network operator Motient Corporation.
FARMERS and businessmen wanting to keep track of the continually deregulated grain market can do so through a new software program from WA’s ProFarmer Advisory Services.
OWNERS of domain names should not be pressured into staying with the same Internet service provider when their domain name comes up for registration, says the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
THE US Quicken company has this week signed a publishing and distribution licence with Australia’s Data Link for rights to their award-winning QuickTrack software.
COMO software developer Matthew Jones has switched his focus from business and commerce to children’s education programs and will launch the first of his new programs this term.
MORE than 50 international hackers as well as some banks and defence department personnel are this month trying to beat a Perth computer security system.
