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Franklin Covey revamps IT

Local subsidiary of organisational development company, Franklin Covey is revamping its IT infrastructure, with e-commerce trading opportunities at the heart of the overhaul.

Visa cosies up to e-purse

Visa International has teamed up with 20 smart card vendors who have agreed to develop offerings based on the Common Electronic Purse Specifications (CEPS).

E Trade launches market depth service

Online investment specialist E Trade Australia has launched a new service allowing investors to see the quantities and price points at which buyers and sellers are prepared to trade.

ACCC issues call for local telco access

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft decision requiring Telstra to give competitors direct access to its customer access network.

Forum: Did AOL buy Netscape for its market?

"Now that America Online, a Microsoft 'partner' owns Netscape, it will simply kill it after a year or two, leaving -- guess what? -- Internet Explorer as the only player in the market. Have I been watching too much X-Files, or what?"

IT backlog builds as Y2K drains resources

Year 2000 projects have drained IT departments of money and resources, and completion dates have been deferred to the last possible moment, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey.

Fast Ethernet overtakes Ethernet

Fast Ethernet surpassed Ethernet switch sales for the first time in the third quarter of the year, according to a study by Cahners In-Stat Group, based in the US.

Aust Post trials e-mail service

Australia Post is looking at supplementary delivery methods as electronic data transmission moves to replace "snail mail".

Alliance: Cisco, HP, and EDS line up

Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, and Electronic Data Systems (EDS) have formed an electronic-business alliance, which EDS' Electronic Business unit will lead.

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