Unified Communications vendor ShoreTel has launched a video competition encouraging current and potential customers to tell their best ShoreTel story through a short video (3 minutes max). The videos will be showcased at contest.shoretel.com and the top video entries will win some really cool prizes including a 52” Sony HDTV! The contest runs until April […]
An economic bounce-back and improved job market is driving competitive staff back to school in 2010 after a stagnate 2009, says Edinburgh Business School (EBS). “In 2010, pressure will build for those looking to move from middle management to senior executive positions, to demonstrate not only their professional experience, but also their academic qualifications,” says […]
AFACT has filed a notice of appeal today with the Federal Court, containing 15 grounds of appeal on the decision in February this year in iiNet’s favour. AFACT’s executive director Neil Gane believed that there were good grounds to appeal the decision. “The court found large scale copyright infringements, that iiNet knew they were occurring, […]
Australia’s largest privately-owned debt collection agency Prushka has rejected claims by the Council of Small Business that proposed changes to bankruptcy legislation will produce better outcomes for SME’s. CEO of Prushka, Roger Mendelson said the Government’s proposal to change the current bankruptcy threshold from $2,000 to $10,000 shows an obvious lack of understanding of small […]
In a statement from the Shadow Minister for Small Business, Bruce Billson has chastised the Federal Government for not providing assistance to small businesses affected by the freeze on the home insulation program headed by Peter Garrett. Support for the army of insulation installers who have lost their jobs is an important initial step, but […]
Companies that keep customers on hold with irritating jingles, the radio or silence could be doing themselves out of business, communications specialist Comscentre says. Small to medium sized businesses are realising first impressions count and are turning to professional custom telephone greetings known as Message/Music on Hold (MoH). “Research has shown that the combination of […]
Aussie has been recognised as one of the country’s top 10 fastest growing franchises in BRW Magazine’s annual Fast Franchises list. The BRW Fast Franchises list ranks companies according to their average annual turnover growth over three years, and as a result Aussie came in at number seven. The magazine also ranks companies by growth […]
Interest rates are expected to stay on hold with quarterly wage growth easing in the December quarter, seasonally adjusted. With total hourly rates of pay, excluding bonuses, rising just 0.6 percent. Coming in under the market forecast of 0.8 percent. The wage price index rose 2.9 per cent from a year earlier in Australian Bureau […]
The government’s National Broadband Network draft legislation has gone up on the Department of Broadband, Communications and Digital Economy (DBCDE) website, but demand for the document has caused the DBCDE site to crash. The legislation is contained in two separate bills and are available from the below links when the DBCDE site is back up. […]
Workers on Pilbara’s Gorgon Gas project are expected to work for 70 hours a week and for 29 days straight before having a 9 day break. The West Australian revealed yesterday that low-skilled workers such as labourers would get about $150,000 annually and qualified tradesmen would get about $10,000 more. The Master Builders Association Kim […]
