Staff Reporters

A SYSTEM developed by WA-based Solar Energy Systems and Venco Products in collaboration with Murdoch University can provide drinking water to remote communities in WA and other states.

SMALL to medium businesses can make their own web sites and need no technical know-ledge to do so, thanks to a new product.

TROY Resources NL has opened up a new area of the Sandstone greenstone belt with its recent commissioning of the Bulchina gold mine.

THE Global Mining Opportunities Seminar will be held at the Parmelia Hilton on 18 October.

THE gloom is lifting from the local economy as improving commodity prices promise a strong recovery.

A UNIVERSITY of WA team is trying to find why many organisational change programs fail.

While gold targets were down, its mineral division helped Sons of Gwalia Limited register a net profit of $27.99 million, following an overall operating profit after tax for the current fiscal of $54.53 million.

THE Facility Management Association of Australia has experienced a growth rate in membership of more than 35 per cent in 1998-1999.

The 1999 edition of the Joint Ore Reserves Committee’s Australasian Code for Reporting of Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code) became effective at the beginning of September.

PERTH telephone customers can save up to 80 per cent on overseas telephone calls thanks to new telecommunications company Global Dial.

EMAIL in the workplace is an area fraught with legal issues, says a Seek spokesperson.

INSURANCE fraud is on the rise in WA and many in the industry believe law enforcement agencies are not doing enough about it, according to a recent Phillips Fox survey.

The Ralph Review heralds a sea change in the way small business interacts with the tax system, according to the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

THE PERTH facility of Software Engineering Australia has opened at Technology Park in Bentley.

A gas strike made by the Department of Minerals and Energy in the Officer Basin in WA has set a precedent – it is the first recorded occurrence of gas in that area.

TPG Internet has become the third largest national ISP in Australia by providing the most cost-effective services, not only in capital cities, but also in regional centres.

AD SERVING provider Sabela Media has signed a deal with IDG Communications to deliver all ads for the company’s web services.

THE WA opposition’s change of tack on workers’ compensation should stop insurance premiums from rising.

Titan Resources NL has chalked up its first profit in six years, described as a major turnaround for the company which last year had a $11.9 million loss.

COMDEK network services manager Josh Bovell believes that electronic commerce can make an office truly paperless.

Doing business in the online economy requires an effective website. However, building a great website is only the first step. For a commercial website to be successful it must attract users, or in web-parlance, traffic.

If you are dealing with a mainstream ISP company, Comdek believes the answer is probably “no”. eBusiness requires far more than just a connection to the Internet.

MORE than 200 jobs and $3.5 million in investment in the northern suburb of Joondalup is expected as a result of Stellar Call Centres setting up a major facility in WA.

The De Beers-controlled Central Selling Organisation has experienced a record sight of precious diamonds at centres in Europe and the Far East.

GREEN Line Investor Services has taken up the challenge laid down by E*Trade and drop-ped its lead brokerage rate to $28 for online trades up to $10,000.

MOBILE phones that answer calls silently may be used by eavesdroppers to listen in to office discussions.

TELSTRA has commenced a series of web-based seminars to educate Australia’s rapidly growing home business market.

COOPERATION between Australia and the Republic of Korea in e-commerce and information technology is set to reach new heights with the announcement of a set of common principles.

West Oil NL has achieved a milestone in its Timor Sea exploration after farming out its 33.3 per cent interest in ZOCA 96-16 to Phillips Australasia Exploration Company.

In 1998, during the Internet’s Christmas shopping boom, one consulting company found that online consumers between the ages of fifty and fifty-four spent, on average, around $US626, while online consumers under the age of twenty-five spent an average of a

MORE males than females are experiencing a midlife change in career or lifestyle, according to research carried out by Morgan & Banks.

MANY Western Australians in England would have felt very homesick over the past couple of weeks with The Land of Plenty exhibition so prominent at Selfridges in London and Manchester.