Hugh Halloran

iiNet Limited has adopted a loss-making policy in regional WA so it can improve its share of the ADSL market.

DESPITE winning a number of lucrative contracts in recent months, IT services company ASG has no immediate plans to pursue a stock market listing.

SMS (Short Message Service) text messaging over mobile phones has been one of the ‘in’ things for tech-savvy people, particularly the younger crowd, for the past two years or so.

CURTIN University has opened the new Western Australian Argon Isotope Facility, and renamed its Centre of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry as the John de Laeter Centre of Mass Spectrometry.

IT all sounds simple, doesn’t it? Punch a few keys on a mobile phone, send the message, and wait to see how much money you’ve saved at the end of the month.

DATA carrier Swiftel Communications has signed a three-year contract worth more than one million dollars with Clough Ltd.

DAYTRADERHQ Ltd has raised just $300,000 from a non-renounceable rights issue that was to raise more than $1.1 million, and is negotiating to ensure the issue’s underwriter makes up the difference.

LESS than three years ago a relatively young European medical firm set itself up in Perth to offer a new form of treatment for joint injuries, particularly those of the knee.

TALK of Perth’s reputation as Australia’s resource centre, its proximity to Asia and its ‘lifestyle’ is almost becoming cliched, it’s so common.

The TIAC report concluded that a central challenge for State Government policy was to use the increased access to global markets and information sources made possible by the new economy to offset the impact of global consolidation on

RESEARCH reports from two different sources have recommended the State Government adopt a more targeted approach to industry development if there is to be continued innovation and development within the WA economy.

JUNIOR telco Amcom Telecommunications is looking to venture beyond its optic fibre-based operations and become a total broadband solutions provider.

HARDWARE retailer Bunnings, a division of Wesfarmers Ltd, has completed the digitalisation of its ordering system across its more than 200 stores in Australia.

THE Goldfields towns of Kalgoorlie, Kambalda and Coolgardie are to be linked via a wireless radio network at a cost of $120,000.

ERG has been in the wars of late, including more court cases, big write-downs and concerns from its auditor. Hugh Halloran examines a largely forgotten project the company launched three years ago with much fanfare.

APT Systems has developed what it is calling a “small business antidote to the tech-wreck”.

BEHIND the locked doors of an industrial unit in Osborne Park, Solbec Pharmaceuticals is working on a drug it hopes could cure the scourge of cancer.

THE announcement this week of a payment scheme for the interactive games is good news for Perth’s Burdekin Pacific Limited.

Customer loyalty schemes are nothing new, but West Perth company Desktop Applications has found they still work.

AT about $35 per kilogram, White Rocks Veal is among the most expensive meats to buy in Perth.

The participation of regional businesses could be the key to remote WA communities receiving two-way broadband access to the internet.

Perth’s Lumacom Ltd has signed a US$150,000 licence agreement with Taiwanese electronic sign maker Inwood Industries Co. Ltd for the local company’s Luma Sign signage system.

The stand-out successes of ten years of Australian telecommunications deregulation have been mobile telephones and the Internet.

E-COMMERCE and web developer IPT Systems Ltd has lodged writs in the WA Supreme Court claiming $800,000 the company had placed in a third party trust account.

THE State’s Macintosh users are still awaiting the arrival of the new Imac 2002.

WORK is under way to give an online presence to local councils across the State.

PERTH IT professionals have abandoned the freedom of contract work and are pursuing the security of permanent tenure.

PERTH’S oil and gas publishing industry has been cut to just two players following the closure of Aspermont Ltd’s Australasian Oil and Gas News.

THE following is an extract from information provided to clients of Gryphon Consultants supporting a recent salary survey by the firm.

The issue of employee trading in company shares is back in the news, following daytraderHQ’s announcement last weekthat writs against the company had been lodged.

PERTH’S oil and gas publishing industry has been cut to just two players following the closure of Aspermont Ltd’s Australasian Oil and Gas News.

THE well-documented decline in exploration drilling is one of a variety of reasons behind the recent trend towards consolidation in the mining industry.