David Olsen

3M’s Post-it Notes celebrate their 30th birthday this year, with the yellow 3″ squares revolutionising the way we take notes attach passwords insecurely to our computers’ monitor.

Almost half of Australian professionals are feeling demoralised from information overload that threatens both work practices and output, potentially leading to ‘information rage’ concludes a new survey.

Senator Stephen Conroy has welcomed an Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) report which found the rollout of high speed broadband like the National Broadband network would be a boon for Australian businesses.

Australian employees forced to compete for the shrinking pool of skilled workers will need to pay more to attract staff or turn to skilled migration using the Federal Government’s 457-visa program, according to KPMG’s Skilled Migration Survey 2010.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics September Quarter Producer Price Index for September shows inflation for business inputs rising, up 1.3 percent in the September quarter and up 2.2 percent for the year for ‘Stage 3’ production.

Women on Boards and UBS Investment Bank today launched The Next Generation of Female Corporate Leaders mentoring and development program for 2011.

Almost one third of new businesses failed between June 2007 and June 2009 according to the Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The BlackBerry Torch 9800 has been released by Optus Mobile on the company’s $79 cap plan, with rivals Telstra, Vodafone and 3 Mobile to receive the Blackberry mobile “in coming months” according to Research In Motion.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia, operating the Vodafone and 3 Mobile brands in Australia, will launch a new 3G mobile network on the same frequency as Telstra’s Next G network.

Telstra will abandon a number of their customers using 2100Mhz 3G mobile phones when the telco switches off the 3GIS joint venture network run with Vodafone Hutchison Australia in 2012.