Tag: Business

Here are tips that will help businesses both increase productivity with a mobile workforce and minimise the associated risk of information loss.

Small business owners are at risk of having to pay thousands of dollars in retrospective taxes as a result of the ATO’s recent draft ruling regarding trust income and gains that are allocated to, but not paid to, private company beneficiaries of the trust.

Do you know what your business’ intellectual property includes and how much it’s worth? Here’s some practical, expert advice on managing the IP in your business.

If you’ve ever received a spam email, or more likely, a few thousand, you will have seen a common thread among all of them. According to research from MessageLabs Intelligence, certain patterns in word usage can be identified in the chaos.

Australian business owners are amongst those least affected by stress in the wake of the GFC, trailing only Finland, Sweden and Denmark.

In a study on global mobile phone usage by Loudhouse Research it has been found that Australia is a land of ‘texters’ with 81 percent using SMS at least weekly.

AVG (AU/NZ), the distributor for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific of the world’s most popular free anti-virus software, today unveiled the results of an AVG Technologies’ research study which shows that — contrary to popular opinion — most malicious web sites are hosted on US servers and not in other countries like China.

Australians are increasingly active participants in social media, with Twitter use growing 400 percent in the past year according to findings from Nielsen’s 2010 Social Media Report.

The weakest part of any business computer system is almost always the human being using it with security experts easily convincing workers to reveal their passwords in exchange for a free pen. Cyber criminals are often portrayed as technical geniuses plying their trade through the use of deviously complex computer code. While there is some […]

Social Media Women, a formal networking group that will encourage and assist women to participate more prominently in social media has been launched today to coincide with International Women’s Day. Having recognised the important role women play in social media, the group will give women a voice in all areas of social media.  It’s a […]