Staff Reporters

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.

The small end of town and investors were the winners from the Ralph Report into business taxation, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

WA'S first Internet auction site has been established by Nedkelly.com.au

Local hydrocarbon explorer Hardman Resources NL, which is on track to spud its first gas well in late October, has also strengthened its corporate status.

BUSINESS and consumer confidence in electronic commerce will be enhanced with the recent formulation of an authentication council.

Americans, with their penchant for therapy speak would call it denial. We more plain speaking Australians would call it inexplicable, unfathomable contradiction.

In recent years the capital markets in Australia have been usurped by the federal government.

Perth businesses could be seriously underprepared for the introduction of the GST, a new survey has revealed.

AN AUSTRALIAN company has developed a real time credit card transaction technology that allows any web server or website to be turned into an electronic commerce gateway.

Perth-based junior mineral explorer Gallery Gold Limited has discovered a new gold province in a style similar to the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.

Hotmix Group provides Internet Services squarely focused on the needs of business.

PERTH-based software solutions company BMIS will soon provide the University of WA with training for JADE programming technology.

Comet Resources NL plans to expand output from its Ravens-thorpe nickel project by 40 per cent, increasing capital development costs to $870 million.

BUSINESSES that are involved in e-commerce need to improve customer service levels to make an impact on the marketplace, says Sybiz managing director John Krokosz.

THE WA taxi industry is in need of sweeping reforms, according to an independent review undertaken by BSD Consultants.

Internet transactions of some US$12.2 billion have been prdicted for the fourth quarter of 1999 by market researcher Dataquest.

Despite a drop in technology stocks, those in the industry still have what it takes to reach the billionaires' list.

The recent downturn in the resource sector has been reflected in the balance book for mining services and rock-breaking contractor, Brandrill Limited.

THE worldwide release of free training videos featuring the Netscape 4.6 program recently began in Perth.

TIES between the meat industry in WA and Egypt were strengthened by a recent visit from Egyptian delegates.

OBSERVATIONS can be made from the UK experience of VAT to help Australia avoid mistakes when introducing the GST, according to a UK tax expert visiting Curtin Business School.

The $3.8 billion Australian stationery products market is set for tough times or even extinction according to a new study by BIS Shrapnel.

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.