Tech

Online marketing is great for small businesses, but like everything, it has to be done right.

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today introduced controversial laws that would require telecommunication services to keep customer data for two years.

A new mobile software platform launched this week has found a way to discern critical patterns and trends inside a business by analysing complex data and presenting it simply and clearly.

A new study has found the number of workplace meetings is rapidly on the rise, taking up increasing amounts of time, reducing productivity and largely seen by employees to provide valueless outcomes.

Over half of Australian small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) expect Internet of Things (IoT) to improve revenue, according to a global survey conducted by online security company AVG Technologies.

The recruitment industry is facing yet another wave of digital disruption with a new mobile platform allowing employers to fill positions by seeking referrals from those in their most trusted networks.

The Australian cloud computing market is expected to explode over the next few years, according to findings from Frost & Sullivan’s latest report, State of Cloud Computing in Australia Report 2014.

The lack of women in IT roles is leading some firms to favour highly qualified female applicants over their male competitors in a bid to better spread opportunity and workplace diversity.

NBN Co, the Commonwealth company established to design, build and operate the National Broadband Network (NBN), has today revealed the first 140 suburbs to be covered by the NBN.

Growth in technology and international communication continues to open up a world of opportunity for Australian small-to-medium businesses (SMBs).

A new Productivity Commission report has found the cost of doing business in the Australian retail sector is inflated by inefficient red tape and a number of anti-competitive restrictions.

The City of Sydney is exploring how small business and communities are using technology as a tool for positive social change. “Gigabytes and Giving Back: Using technology for social good”, taking place this evening, is to feature a panel of experts discussing the social good that can be delivered when government, foundations, individuals and business […]

An ASIC report has been analysed by commercial credit reporting bureau CreditorWatch, and the findings have identified key learnings that may benefit SMEs and business owners.

Australians downloaded approximately one exabyte (one million terabytes) of data via broadband in the three months leading to June, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Melbourne has become one of the world’s first cities to acquire its own domain address.

With energy prices steadily rising over the past decade it has never been more important for businesses to be aware of their electrical usage.

New figures released have revealed that 43 per cent of Australians will immediately leave a website if it loads slowly.

The banking industry is set to face new competitive disruption as it scrambles to preserve its stake in the growing mobile payments market. New figures show that worldwide mobile payments are expected to increase by nearly 61 per cent to 47 billion transactions by 2015.

Inefficiency, wasted time and effort, stretched to capacity – even just reading these words gives most businesses a bad feeling. For most companies, a smoothly running IT infrastructure is a critical business requirement.

A recent survey commissioned by NBN Co, the government-owned enterprise delivering the National Broadband Network (NBN), has revealed that one in ten Australians surveyed would work from home if they had faster broadband.