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IT News Review - Week Ending Friday 9/6/2000

IDG staff, Information Age

06/09/2000 17:10:22

Malaysia seeks Australian tenants for IT parkAustralian IT exporters wanting to expand into the Southeast Asian market have been offered a high-tech home in Malaysia. Located at Johor, the southern tip of Malaysia, the UNI-IT Park is scheduled to be opened in March 2001 and is currently entering into negotiations with potential clients.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001A476Bucolics to get with the programRural and regional Australia will receive $65 million in community-based communications and internet project funding, according to the federal government. The Department of Transport and Regional Services and the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) said that the funds will be distributed under the existing Networking the Nation (NTN) program.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001A48EFreshport puts agribusiness onlineThe internet economy brought the concept of "e-agribusiness" to rural and regional Australia last week at the annual Mildura Field Day. The wine-growing region's trade event was the occasion for internet startup Freshport to test the market for a suite of browser-based farm management tools. The new company, a brand of tradeport.com, targets what it sees as a desire by farmers to improve their productivity using the web.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001A472GST one month out: corporations still not readyWith just one month to go before the GST kicks in, widespread corporate IT ill-preparedness seems likely, says Gartner analyst Bruce McCabe. McCabe referred to a recent Gartner survey which found that nearly half of Australia's large businesses and government agencies did not expect to have fully functional GST technology systems in place before the June 1deadline.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/arndb.NSF/Current/NT0000DB4EMicrosoft up for auction? I think notMicrosoft has denied reports it pressured auction website eBay into removing all Microsoft software sales and altering Microsoft-related customer feedback published on its site.

According to reports published on US IT news websites slashdot.com and kuro5hin, eBay "pulled" all auctions of Microsoft software conducted through its site. The reports said Microsoft had pressured eBay into terminating all sales of its software conducted through the auction site, illegal or not, in an attempt to stifle piracy.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001A47AHow GST makes enemies of friends: CompaqBusinesses failing to attain full GST-compliance before July 1 risk several negative outcomes including professional ostracism warns Compaq tax and treasury manager Andrew Watson. With the new tax regime now less than one month away, risks of isolationfrom taxation-wary business partners, an effective tax increase of a further 10 per cent, and ACCC-enforceable non-compliance penalty fines of up to $10 million - are the three major risks Watson expects will jolt most unprepared companies into GST action.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001A692AMP renews its faith in CSCAMP has renegotiated its existing IT infrastructure outsourcing agreement with CSC in a new five-year, $550 million contract, which will generate millions of dollars in cost savings. AMP has had an ongoing relationship with CSC since 1997.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001AA02To the strong go the VC spoilsLocal dot-coms are vying for the attention of venture capitalists, but the criteria are strict and only the tough, educated applicants will make the cut, an Internet World 2000 conference session heard recently. "Rapidly growing demand in internet services is attractive to VCs," said Dr Richard Gregson, joint managing director of leading VC firm Equity Partners.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001A9FASecure transactions soughtSome of the Internet's heaviest hitters were meeting recently in the US in an attempt to organise a global system to help ease the privacy and security concerns of online shoppers that may be wary of making purchases over the Web. America Online, IBM, Microsoft and Dell Computer are among the seven companies taking part in the initiative, which is expected to be announced soon at the start of a two-day US Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Commerce workshop in Washington DC.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001AA0AAnalyst gives mixed diagnosis on Asia e-businessE-businesses in the Asia Pacific will only survive if they overhaul traditional "ego" driven business practices, and adopt more American and "right brain" business philosophies, a senior analyst said yesterday. In his Internet World 2000 speech on the future of e-business in Asia, Bob Hayward, senior VP Gartner AP, was confident that 85 per cent ofe-businesses in Asia would fail.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001AA36Law but no order onlineUnprepared internet service providers unwittingly run the risk of being charged with defamation, copyright infringement and illegal distribution of X-rated material, argues internet law guru Jim Cooper. Cooper is a practising lawyer and legal professor at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001AA2AABS: Web banking not popular yetDespite a push for banks to get online, a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed only 3 per cent of adults used the internet for banking purposes in 1999. Although this is more than double the 1998 proportion, it is a far cry from the 40 per cent of adults that paid bills or transferred funds via the telephone.

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001AA1EIs Linux a net security risk?

A SANS Institute of America report has named Linux and Unix operated sites as more vulnerable to internet attacks than Windows and Mac powered sites. Compiled by US industry, government, and academics, the June 1 paper, titled How to Eliminate the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Threats: The Experts' Consensus, names versions of Unix and Linux systems in nine out of a "top ten" list of security vulnerabilities for operating systems that engineers "need to eliminate".

Click on the link below for the full storyhttp://www2.idg.com.au/cwt1997.NSF/cwtoday/NT0001AA22