Julian Smith blogs about how vital it is for business owners to rediscover their passion.
“I shared some observations I have gleaned from the most successful business folks I have met on my travels – the one thing they all have in common is passion. The business dream and vision they started with, still resonates with them and motivates them.”
Telstra has announced the finalists in the 2011 Telstra Northern Territory Business Awards, finding that customer service is at the forefront of business success in the state.
Telstra has detailed plans to invest significantly in cloud computing over the next five years, to better support growing demand from Australian businesses of all sizes for cloud services.
The 2011 Telstra Business Awards will be the debut of a new category, the People’s Choice Award, announced Telstra Business Group managing director and Telstra Business Awards Ambassador Deena Shiff.
HTC launched the new HD7 smartphone in partnership with Telstra Next G and Microsoft today. The Windows 7 phone is pitched at a diverse audience from business customers to gamers.
Telstra will launch the HTC Desire S smartphone exclusively on its Next G network in Australia, making the announcement after HTC unveiled the Google Android powered Desire S overnight at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Telstra will bring the Sony Ericsson Xperia neo Android powered mobile phone to its NextG network in Australia before the end of June this year.
Telstra will launch a 4G mobile broadband network that in testing has achieved 100Mpbs download speeds later this year, upgrading it’s existing NextG mobile network to support ‘Long Term Evolution’ (LTE) technology in all Australian CBD’s and selected regional centres by the end of 2011.
The second annual Back to Business Survey commissioned by Telstra Business and the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) found small business confidence in the Australian economy is significantly lower than it was a year ago.
Small and medium business owners in Australia would like to see a ‘Small Business Ombudsman’ established to help deal with problems affecting them, with small business owners rating taxes, interest rates and government red tape the biggest problems they face in a national survey conducted by COSBOA and Telstra released today.
