FIFTY-SEVEN financial institutions currently provide approximately 720 different debt finance products for small business, according to research group Cannex.
COMPANIES often spend thousands of dollars registering a domain name but many remain unaware that it can be lost overnight through simple administrative errors.
ONE of the big movers in the IT sector this year will be the mass adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, according to technology analyst groups.
INNOVATION is a strange concept in Australia.
I have written before that our innovation is often the bush mechanic style of being able to keep things together with wire and string.
JOE Poprzeczny's State Scene article ‘Wedged on the Reef' of January 16 2003 was very appropriate considering the timing of current announcements concerning the Ningaloo Reef developments.
CUTTING prices is often seen as an easy way for businesses to boost their turnover, especially in difficult trading conditions. But it's a strategy that is fraught with danger.
THE misuse of email systems by staff is by far the most common email security problem. The potentially devastating consequences associated with the abuse of company email systems highlights the critical importance of developing and implementing a
NANOTECHNOLOGY developed by UWA researchers as part of a ‘Centres of Excellence' program is poised to revolutionise the sunscreen market and is set to attack the cosmetics, microelectronics, baby care and homeware industries.
A RECENTLY formed WA company is making significant strides in its quest to find a treatment to arrest Alzheimer's disease.
UWA research offshoot Alzhyme Pty Ltd has a patent pending on its research and has secured investment to further its research.
COOL Energy is running hot. The company, which was formed three months ago, is enjoying the fruits of LNG research breakthroughs by Curtin University Professor Robert Amin.
TWO Western Australian companies have been taken to court for misleading advertising, one by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the other by the
THERE was limited but steady growth for Perth's architectural firms last year as the five largest names continued to dominate the top end of the market.
WA'S poor performance in the latest Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program funding is a reflection of the State's inability to compete for Commonwealth funding, according to academics spoken to by WA Business News.
The CRC is the nation's major coll
PROVIDING seed funding, encouraging better collaboration between universities and industry, and promoting WA as a R&D hub are vital if WA is to make it into the big league.
There's nothing like immersing yourself in a culture to discover the wonders of its culinary traditions, and an upcoming visit to Italy is bound to appeal, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
LOCAL electronics design and manufacturing company Omnitronics is gaining international momentum and will ship its communications products to Canada and Scotland later this month.
THERE can be little argument that electronic mail is a mission-critical and indispensible business tool upon which most enterprises are partially or totally dependent.
However, as is often the case with technologies offering significant advantages to
