David Smedley - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by David Smedley

Article | 4/04/2000 All Ordinaries get a facelift

Dotcom startups Adultshop, InvestorWeb, Kidznet and Wine Planet were ranked among Australia's top 500 companies when the ASX kicked off its new All Or...

Article | 3/04/2000 IBM steps closer to the edge

In what it described as a "major strategic initiative", IBM has launched locally a range of personal computing devices to form part of the technology ...

Article | 30/03/2000 Optus kicks off B2B sites

Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) kicked off its business-to-business ecommerce platforms today with the launch of its CWO Marketsite and Enterprise BuySit...

Article | 29/03/2000 Telcos rising -- but not enough

Local telcos outperformed the ASX All Ords by 11 per cent over the past six months; however, their results over the past year have been dismal in cont...

Article | 28/03/2000 Jobs' board heats up media portal

Sydney-based youth lifestyle publisher Next Media has signed a deal with US-based online recruitment agency HotJobs.

Article | 27/03/2000 Searching for Olympic gold online

Local search giant LookSmart will be going for gold this September after it signed a deal to become the official search engine and directory provider ...

Article | 24/03/2000 Companies bet on net gambling

Online gambling's popularity is such a sure bet, two players, Lasseters Casino and Gamble.com, are confident their respective floats will raise millio...

Article | 24/03/2000 Yahoo in the Palm of your hand

Hot on the heels of its successful Nasdaq listing and the release of its new handheld units to the local market this week, Palm Computing has signed a...

Article | 21/03/2000 Time out for AOL and AAPT

Share trading in telecommunications giant AAPT was halted this morning after the company revealed it is in discussions with AOL "concerning AOL Austra...

Article | 20/03/2000 Online Government: Act One

While the National Party continued to raise concerns over the quality and availability of communications technology in the bush this week, the Federal...

Article | 20/03/2000 Solutions giant snags more deals

Ever-expanding IT solutions company Solution 6 is set to loosen its belt another notch after announcing it intends to swallow up Sausage Software in a...

Article | 15/03/2000 E-Store expands cyberspace shelves

Web-based IT shop E-Store has upped the ante in the online retail battle with the launch of 10 new stores on its website.

Article | 14/03/2000 Paying for classifieds? Get stuffed

In a move it said would "challenge the traditional domain" of Australia's media giants, independent auction site Stuff.com.au has introduced free onli...

Article | 10/03/2000 Spend your last minutes online

Local online travel shop travel.com.au has signed a deal with London-based Net company Last Minute Network to establish lastminute.com in Australia an...

Article | 9/03/2000 ASX stocks up on IT

As part of its goal to be "the best" outsourcer in the Asia-Pacific, Kaz Computer Services listed on the ASX today opening at $3.20, up more than 200 ...