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Role reversal? – in an unusual family friendly market first, telco gotalk has introduced parent protection from game playing kids using up expensive broadband data allowance before the end of the month. Parents will love it – gamers will hate it  !! The innovative trans Tasman Gold Coast based telco this week announced a ‘Kid Proof” password protected broadband download Data Reserve feature by which frustrated parents will now be able to control their game playing offspring from using up the entire family broadband data allowance well before the end of the month – one of the most frequently reported sources of modern internet family conflict. The feature went “live” at the weekend. More details follow. NOTE: gotalk is also now reselling Telstra ADSL2+, giving access for 90% of Australians to gotalk 8Mbps and ADSL2+ services. Picton says "The combination of the quality and reach of the Telstra broadband network and gotalk's innovation and low cost delivery offers the very best consumer proposition to the widest possible audience".

Trans Tasman telco gotalk has launched an innovative new service which combines a standard PBX telephone system with broadband internet VoIP technology allowing small and medium businesses to save up to 65% on local, national and international calls, including calls to Australian mobiles. CEO Steve Picton said today he believed gotalk’s Multi Line VoIP service will revolutionise the way small and medium businesses make – and pay for – telephone communications. “I believe in the current tough economic climate this new service will be extremely popular with SME owner operators looking for ways to control costs without compromising efficiency,” Mr. Picton said. (Media contacts: CEO Steve Picton 0416 269 177; PR Terry Quinn 0439 710 418 – or go to www.gotalk.com.au/Business )

After three years as the head of Microsoft Australia, Paul Houghton has been sent packing to the US, with the company announcing today that Steve Vamos has been appointed managing director of the software company.

After three years as the head of Microsoft Australia, Paul Houghton has been sent packing to the US, with the company announcing today that Steve Vamos has been appointed managing director of the software company.

Yahoo's Australian unit plans to acquire Sold.com.au from John Fairfax Holdings's f2 Internet group. The companies will also enter into a marketing agreement to continue distributing Sold content across f2's network of sites.

And you thought IT was just about making money? A new charity hopes to channel some of the wealth created in the industry to a worthwhile cause.

Packer and Microsoft joint venture Ninemsn made losses of $22.1 million on revenues of $8.23 million for the financial year ended June 1999.

Prolonged negotiations between Ecorp and Cable & Wireless Optus (CWO) about a possible $8 billion merger of Ninemsn and the carrier's broadband cable operation have ended without a winner.

Media mogul Kerry Packer's internet flagship ecorp has signed a deal with US-based online recruitment company Monster.com to launch a Hong Kong version of Monster's employment site.

Dotcom investors are gripping their stock charts for another frenetic ride today after local tech companies were hammered yesterday when the Nasdaq plummeted as much as 13 per cent on Tuesday night.