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Macquarie Hosting, a division of Macquarie Telecom, has sealed a three year, half million dollar deal with Australian electronic payment gateway providers, eWAY.

Business software vendor, NetSuite, has brought together its SuiteCloud application cloud with the saleforce.com cloud platform in a partnership deal announced today.

SMS Management & Technology (ASX: SMX) has won a multi-million dollar contract with consumer watchdog, Choice Australia, for its soon to be launched GROCERYchoice online shopping service.
 

WebSpy, a global vendor of internet monitoring, analysis and reporting software, claims ‘remarkable success’ with implementation in February of an e-commerce initiative in a partnership with e-commerce service provider, Avangate.

UK online music retailer Digital Stores says its Internet business is insulated from the trend where physical music retail stores in the UK are disappearing and the outlook ‘on the high street’ for music retailers remains gloomy with record shops high on the endangered species list.

While four in five Australians use online banking, with three-quarters paying bills online, we spend considerably less shopping online than other countries, according to a recent global digital study of the online behavior of consumers in16 countries including Australia.

Australian IT and e-commerce company, Manaccom (ASX:MNL), has achieved a 34% increase in net profit after tax for the half year to December 2008 following solid growth in its online and software publishing and distribution divisions.

Technology industry surveys and market studies seems to becoming thick and fast during the economic downturn, with several companies and industry bodies vying for space to let us all know just where they think the market’s heading in these tough times.

There’s been another call from the IT industry for the Australian government to give greater priority to developing Australia’s digital economy as measures are rolled out by the government to stimulate the economy, with an industry advocacy group warning of the need for "vigilance against anti-competitive regulation sought by traditional businesses who feel threatened by e-commerce."