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Microsoft Office 365 was announced by Microsoft Australia today, with the software giant launching its Office suite alongside SharePoint, Exchange and Lync online in a cloud service, posing a serious threat to Google’s Apps business ambitions.
The number of people suffering from difficult colleagues and workplace bullying is growing at an alarming rate, according to Australia’s lead speaker on handling difficult people, behaviours and situations, Gavan Podbury.
Spam accounted for more than eight in every ten emails received in September, reducing productivity for businesses worldwide as employees clear out their inboxes and often miss important messages.
Enersonic Power Saver Device, marketing by Auscha Corporation Pty Ltd and its former marketing manager Nagarajah Rajkumar was marketed in a misleading way, the Federal Court has found.
Daisy Dry Cleaning, the only chemical-free and carbon neutral dry cleaner in Australia, has opened its first franchised store in Greater Geelong, Victoria.
Mortgage Choice has purchased home loan website HelpMeChoose.com.au, the mortgage broker’s second acquisition in a year after buying home loan aggregator LoanKit 11 months ago.
Optus and NEC Australia have joined forces to offer small and medium sized businesses a phone system and mobility solution that enables people to work smarter and faster by streamlining their communications.
Blockbuster Australia, operated independently of Blockbuster Inc in the US, will seek to distance itself from it’s beleaguered cousin with a multi-million dollar branding campaign.
Registered tax agents and BAS agents will be forced to hold professional indemnity insurance from 1 July 2011 under a draft proposal from The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) released today.
Australian businesses recruiting employees face increasing costs as skilled employees become harder to find, with key infrastructure projects, including the National Broadband Network draining the employee talent pool.
The Australian Services Union has negotiated an Australian-first family violence leave entitlement with the Surf Coast Shire in Victoria, in a deal the ACTU heralds as a new template for all workplaces.
Telstra has released the Telstra Ultimate USB mobile internet device to Australian small and medium business customers, delivering up to double the speed of existing Telstra NextG USB modems.
Baby Boomers have pushed aside their technophobic stereotypes and are spending more hours working remotely outside the office on laptops and mobile internet connections than their Gen Y technology loving counterparts, new research from Telstra has shown.
Australian businesses are taking longer to pay their bills, with business-to-business payment terms worsening in the September quarter compared to this time last year.
Yodalizer, a new Brisbane-based market intelligence analysis agency is on a mission to work with mid-tier SMEs to provide credible and up-to-date data to support business growth.
41 percent of Australian medium sized businesses have been victims of a hacking attack or an IT security incident in the past year according to the latest McAfee report The Security Paradox.
Former Apple Inc Creative Director Timon Harrison has urged all Australian businesses to embrace design to create winning experiences for their customers online at his keynote at Web Directions South yesterday.
The Aussie dollar has failed to reach parity with the US dollar after coming as close as US 99.94 cents yesterday as profit takers moved into the market ahead of the release of US economic data tonight Australian time.
Renowned presenter, Gavan Podbury, is bringing his successful, life-changing seminars on how to work with difficult colleagues and make the most of all working relationships, to Sydney in November 2010.
An adventure travel business that plans to fly tourists into Tasmania’s stunning wilderness areas has won RMIT University’s prestigious 2010 Business Plan Competition.
