Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Industry Minister Kim Carr has announced $2.4 million in grants to 38 companies through the Howard government-initiated Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) program, including funding to 13 firms in the ICT sector.
Perth-based software developer Rivermiss, South Australia’s Red Button
Technologies, Victoria-based Oodle.com and Queensland’s Advise Rehab are among the ICT compaies that received $64,000 in COMET funding to develop strategies to take
their products to market.
Senator Carr’s office said the funding was designed to help small
Australian companies get innovations into the market to boost the economy and support high-value, highly-skilled jobs.
The Rivermiss product was designed from the ground-up in Australia as a
plug-in that turns Microsoft Outlook – and its global base of more than
400 million users - an intuitive and cohesive personal workload
organising platform. The software allows lets customers better manage
emails and to organise and schedule their workload much more
effectively.
Red Button Technologies has developed a telecommunications product
development and operational environment, and says it will use the COMET
funding to for strategic business planning, market researcj,
intellectual property strategies, as well as finalising its working
protoype.
The Advise Rehab Software uses a real-time feedback model in the
healthcare sector to predict and monitor the potential and expected
recovery time, and rehabilitation costs for injured people.
Melbourne-based Oodles.com provides a Web-based just-in-time car rental
price comparison and booking service, eliminating a manual searches and
still rewarding frequent flyers with points for each rental.
The program includes the services of a COMET business adviser, who
works with the companies on market research and developing strategic
business plans, as well as investigating IP strategies to bring their
products to market.
David Bass
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