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Social network Twitter is growing in leaps and bounds with thousands of new tweeters singing up every day, and now many large businesses have jumped on the social networking bandwagon, reportedly starting to use Twitter as a key tool in their customer service inventory.

Telstra’s embarked on upgrades of 131 of its exchanges throughout Victoria which it says will give a further 84,000 homes and businesses across the state high speed ADSL2+ broadband services.

Four out of five small businesses in Australia say they’re not ready for the introduction of the new workplace laws, many of which come into effect on 1 July this year.

Telstra seems to be going all out to try to project an image of a company that is all caring and concerned about Australia’s thousands of small businesses doing it tough in difficult economic times, with two announcements in as many days about new services for those struggling businesses.

Telstra has today opened the first of 67 new business centres around Australia where it says it will provide local face-to-face help for small businesses faced with the difficulties of the economic downturn.

The dreaded Conficker worm is constantly in the news these days, with consumers and businesses worldwide now bracing themselves for another expected attack from the malicious worm predicted to sweep the Internet on April Fool’s Day tomorrow.

The financial downturn has all businesses tightening their belts and focussing on getting greater bang for their buck as they look for ways to survive the crisis.

A survey of Australian companies by Compuware has found that 75.5% of IT budgets are being spent just "keeping the lights on" or maintaining existing IT applications, with only 24.5% spent on new IT initiatives.

Australian businesses, it seems, are making more rapid progress than their counterparts in other countries, particularly the UK, in planning ahead for the effects of carbon pricing.

Ever wanted to bring Skype into the corporate realm but have been hamstrung by the lack of SIP-based PBX compatibility? Good news as Skype finally gets down to business.

As the economic climate hits a new low, one of Australia’s business incubator groups reckons that as businesses scale down we’re likely to see more of what they call ‘forced entrepreneurship’, where those employees made redundant seize the opportunity to put a long held new business idea into practice.

3 Mobile has brought out a range of new mobile phone plans especially for small to medium sized businesses which 3 says will help them in the current economic climate to streamline their administration and squeeze maximum value from their existing spend.
 

Many of Australia’s largest businesses and organisations have a ‘near enough is good enough’ attitude when it comes to addressing business risk, according to the findings of a research report just released.

The ‘international business elite’ are increasingly accessing the Internet while on the move, with a growing need for more flexibility to view television content on their laptops as well as on their desktop computers and mobile devices.

When the going gets tough the tough get going, and no more than at the moment as all sectors of business and industry, including the technology sector, face a much tougher job marketing and selling their products and services as the economic downturn bites deeper.

Just a week after Internode boss, Simon Hackett announced an FTTH service with speeds up to 100mbps and ridiculed the proposed NBN target speeds of 12mbps, the South Australian ISP has launched a new service which it says is designed to deliver high performance, fully symmetrical Internet access to Australian businesses.

There’s been a dramatic collapse in average selling prices (ASP) for PCs around the world with vendors under enormous pressure as they are hit by a rapid decline in revenues and the effects of the global economic tsunami.

With Australia now in the middle of National Consumer Fraud Week, there’s been a timely warning issued by one company that businesses are being exposed to security risks by the increasing number of employees accessing personal emails and social networking sites while at work.