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All categorised content that has been generated since the 28th January 2006 can be accessed from this page.

A battle I hope Woolworths wins

Apple Computer Corporation is seeking to take legal action against Woolworths because they believe that the new Woolworths logo breaches the... More

Cough up sucker

News came through yesterday that Telstra will soon start charging an administration fee for those paying their telephone bill with cash or c... More

Mars bar now more like a Mars finger

The Mars bar, a well known snack in many countries is about to shrink in size with the excuse offered by the Mars Confectionery CEO, Peter W... More

Telstra can't get anything right

The latest sagas to hit Telstra relate to a recently introduced billing system, now widely known for errors such as sending credits for arou... More

Pacific Brands deals cruel blow to manufacturing

Most will have already heard about the final nail in the coffin for local manufacture of clothing, footwear and homewares, no thanks to the ... More

Telstra is out of the running

It seems that Telstra just can't get anything right. Today the Commonwealth Government has ruled that Telstra's bid for the right to build t... More

Bigpond rumoured to be pondering oper reshuffle

Rumours are circulating that Bigpond management are about to close the curtains on one of the volunteer operators on their chat service.
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Ebay suspends PayPal plan

Ebay has decided to shelve plans to ban popular payment methods on its auction website - a move that will be received well amongst the thous... More

Apple to open new Sydney store

Apple will open a new retail outlet in Sydney tomorrow in space previously used by the Westpac Bank.

In a video shown by [i]The Syd... More

Ebay ponders on fighting the ACCC

Ebay is pondering on fighting a recent decision by The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to block their attempts to limi... More

Ebay stands still for the ACCC

In a rare display of wisdom by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Ebay has been forced to suspend its moves to compe... More

D-Day coming for Ebay

In just on three weeks from now Ebay will shit on its Australian customers by reducing allowable payment options for high bidders on its auc... More

The latest woes with PayPal and Bigpond

It is sad that we once again see two large companies with exceptional market power fiddling whilst Rome burns. At a time when Bigpond's pare... More

ANZ fires up the curry

The ANZ Bank is reported by [i]The Australian[/i] to be planning to send more work to India and lay off more of their 4,000-strong back offi... More

ANZ raises the bar again

The ANZ Bank has just decided to raise interest rates again, this time to 9.47%. The rise will take effect as of Monday the 28th April.
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Ebay cops a salvo from the Reserve Bank

The Reserve Bank of Australia has chimed in to the debacle that Ebay has caused recently. Ebay wants to restrict payments for goods bought o... More

The writing is on Labor's wall to wall

This afternoon Mitsubishi Motors came to a decision that will affect the livelihoods of over 1,000 people. In eight weeks, Mitsubishi's asse... More

Telstra's plastic bag saga

It has been reported on [i]ZDNet[/i] that Telstra linesmen are carrying out makeshift repairs to the company's telephone networks with plast... More

Big Business is on the nose

As reported in [i]The Sydney Morning Herald[/i] this morning, Telstra is forcing staff to sign workplace agreements or be made redundant.More

What next? Telstra lets soft porn through the net

Telstra is widely known as a large company that will do anything to make a fast buck. Their video downloads website; which unlike many other... More

Helstra to sack another 285 workers

At a time when some people are finding the going hard, Telstra has just announced plans to shed another 285 workers from their payroll. Most... More

Sol to sack another 500 people

The following is part of a story reported in today's edition of [i]The Australian[/i].

Telstra is moving as many as 500 sales su... More

No longer 'The One'

A war between the Nine Network and one of their regional affiliates, WIN Television, has escalated with WIN carrying out a threat to dump se... More

QANTAS management is losing the plot

Recently we have seen reports on the news about substandard maintenance activities performed QANTAS aircraft by outsourced maintenance worke... More

Sol brings out another Amigo

Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, has appointed another American to a senior position at Telstra, this time as head of Telstra's directory business... More

In bed with the enemy

The General is looking at buying Chrysler.

Could the next S Class Merc be a rebadged Holden Statesman? Well, at least they aren't t... More

Helstra Bogpond making life hard

In a recent edition of The Sydney Morning Herald there was More

Australian manufacturing must be preserved at any cost

A businessman by the name of Des Murphy wants to buy the ailing operations of Ajax, a maker of nuts, bolts and other fasteners in Braeside, ... More

The last bastion for traditional Aussie clothing

I read, with some sadness, today that footwear maker, Blundstone, is to cease manufacture of its leather workboot range in Moonah, Tasmania ... More

Labor fails NSW on jobs and industry

It has been revealed by The Sydney Morning Herald that the tender let to EDI for the construction and maintenance of 626 new passenger t... More

Sol - Time for your IRC service to go

If ever there was a Telstra service that should be terminated it would be Bigpond's dying chat service.

Tonight, even as I speak, B... More

Made in China

Are you getting sick of the quality levels in consumer products these days? Fit and finish not up to scratch? No spare parts - just throw it... More

Do not under-estimate the power of the Darkside

For the past couple of days Vilesilencer has had a few niggling issues. You get that on the big jobs. The Darkside of the force showed its t... More

NRMA Membership - it pays to belong

Or so the ads used to say.

I've just finished completing the on-line proxy voting form for the upcoming NRMA annual general meeting... More

Another tranche of Aussie battlers sacked

In a foul-smelling move, Westpac is reported by news.com.au to be preparing to sack 485 office staff and outsourcing the positions to a ... More

Google Schmoogle

The title is a quoted statement mentioned once by Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, when he was asked about the performance of Australia's home-gro... More

Say NO to foreign call centres

I am giving a great deal of thought to developing a register of companies that employ call and/or data processing centres in India and other... More

Ticket scalpers have to be stopped

The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) is in a tug of war with Ebay over Ebay's harbouring of ticket scalpers though the ACB, also known as Cric... More

Telstra is in the piper's pit

For a while now I am one who has been disillusioned about some of Telstra's business practices.

One is the export of employment whi... More

Let the buyer beware

Or at least let the buyer be aware, as I wish to highlight a company that is fraudulently offering for sale domain names that reside in the ... More

Walmart, Kohlberg Kravis, we don't want you here - go away

A couple of months ago department store chain, Myer, was sold to a US-led consortium of investment companies for $1.4bn. So every time you s... More

Telstras tea time call

Dan, who owns a popular iServ affiliate called Vilesilencer rec... More

Is Toyota being naughty?

Hewlett Packard, Acer and Toshiba have threatened to sue Dell over an alleged deceptive campaign to use Google's advertising service to stea... More

Sol swings the axe in the bush

Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, has sacked 207 of his maintenance staff in rural areas, creating a large hole in Telstra's ability to keep its ne... More

Bigpond is making life hell

An acquaintance of mine is currently trying to get his ISP to transfer his ADSL service from his old house to a new one. He's not getting an... More

Sol is sacking another tranche of workers

Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, has announced the pending removal of another 2600 workers as part of his commitment to putting 12,000 people on t... More

Telstra's crawling tactics to shareholders ain't workin'

A long-standing affiliate of mine has just demonstrated that Telstra's vain attempt to procure the loyalty of shareholders whilst the share ... More

The ACCC and Telstra saga

The continued fighting between the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and Telstra (Helstra) is holding Australia back and... More

Sol failing the little Aussie telco

Optus is planning on suing Telstra over their pricing for wholesale line rental, a charge that Telstra charges their rivals to access "the l... More

The Herald turns 175 tomorrow, but...

What was once considered one of Australia's most conservative and reserved newspapers seems to have done a backflip in recent years, becomin... More

Unions peddle more falsehoods about sackings

In a bold move that seems to be placing Optus at the finish line with Telstra in a contest to see who can sack the most telecommunications w... More

Telstra copping it from all angles

The US Government has criticised Telstra for placing their home grown ISP, Primus, at a distinct disadvantage in relation to the pricing of ... More

Telstra marketeers have lost the plot

Telstra has just announced that it will commit to a rollout of ADSL2+, and whilst not committing to a date, they have announced that downloa... More

Helstra cops another battering

...This time from angry shareholders.

Telstra's share price has fallen faster than one of Yamamoto's kamakazis above the USS Lexing... More

Cross City Rort cave in

Some potential users of the Cross City Tunnel (rort) have indicated their surprise at the decision by the tunnel's operator to halve the tol... More

Telstra jacks up connection costs

Now they can afford to keep Sol and his amigos.

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Sol's Privacy Policy is rather ambiguous

An article I just read on the iServ affiliate, VileSilencer, has stirred th... More

Telstra now hosts a site that apparently allows you to bag them

Check this out, they are really doing it!

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Gone to Gowings

It's official. Gowings has stood as the last of the traditional departments stores, surviving the takeovers and collapses that affected name... More

Sol swings the axe at Telstra

Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo, has wasted no time in going ahead with his plans to put 12,000 people on the dole queues, people who have planned... More

The ultimate act of deceit

I was reading news.com.au a little earlier to discover the good news that former HIH director, Ray Williams, who is serving a four year ... More