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Businesses are being driven from Sydney, with mounting costs attributed to Sydney’s traffic snarl costing up to $10,000 per year according to the NRMA.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has admitted that unless the words coming from his mouth are scripted, that voters cannot trust him to tell the truth.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission instituted proceedings in the Federal Court today against Air New Zealand Ltd for fixing prices.

Australia’s population growth is set to slow over the next two years, with overseas students and long-stay visa holders forecast to stay away says BIS Shrapnel.

Domino’s Pizza is is rolling out a change to it’s core pizza product offering, with 3,750 tonnes of tomato sauce and a new advertising campaign hitting consumers today.

Optus has launched a range of BYO Business Mobile Broadband plans with standard SIMs to compliment the range of MicroSIM plans released last week for the iPad.

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 4G is being used as a lure for online scammers, with free iPhone 4G links being spammed out via email and Twitter.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has obtained orders restraining three individuals from promoting an alleged pyramid selling scheme called TVI Express through Facebook.

26 percent of small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with a turnover of $1 million or more plan to take on more staff in 2010, with half expecting an increase in sales within the next six months.

I don’t generally deal in the currency of regret. I struggle to think of any other emotional pastime more useless, futile and unproductive. Unless you count the 12 months I spent longing, no pining for Inter Milan super hero Nicola Berti after a stint living in Italy during the early 90’s.

Transurban is still a takeover target for CP2 investment fund after its advances were spurned with a capital raising on the open market.

The Australian newspaper today unveiled their iPad app, due for release later this month, the first Australian newspaper to launch an iPad digital edition.

This week when I got my hair cut and I realised I was getting old. Finally, I had to admit that I was no longer Peter Pan.

The West Australian Liberal Party is campaigning hard on the resource super profits tax, with a new campaign which hopes to win back key seats from Labor.

Microsoft is comparing Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) to nine year old expired milk in an Australian advertising campaign urging users to upgrade.

‘Australia Unlimited’ is Australia’s new national brand to represent Australian quality, innovation and service worldwide announced by Minister for Trade Simon Crean.

In a world where collaboration with business partners and customers is essential to achieving high performance, IT security has never been more crucial. Securing corporate, individual and commercial data, protecting identities and building trusted relationships with stakeholders are part of day-to-day businesses everywhere.

Skype has launched group video chat into the beta phase, Skype group video calling allows video calls with up to five people.

Lance Whitney is a Journalist, IT Consultant and Web Developer with almost 20 years experience in the IT world. Here are some extracts from an evaluation Lance recently conducted of Dragon NaturallySpeaking against the built-in speech recognition solutions provided by Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Car rental companies at Perth Airport are likely to have their negotiations over counter space rejected by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).