Telstra Offers SMBs Gold In China SMB exporters will be offered the chance to tap into China's booming economy during the Beijing Olympics through a joint initiative between Telstra and Austrade.

Symantec Says Use Your Head When Online According to security vendor Symantec, using commonsense when dealing online is one of the foremost methods of keeping malware and other computer nasties away from your system.

Harvey Norman Starts Stationary War A stationary war is set to break out in Australia with Harvey Norrman set to take on OfficeWorks with a new chain of stores called Ofis now going live.

Loewe & Klipsch Axe International Dynamics Melbourne based International Dynamics has lost the distribution rights to both European TV Company Loewe and Klipsch audio products. The split comes only months after David Probert quit the Company as Managing Director.

Radio Rentals To Quit Stores For Online EXCLUSIVE: Radio Rentals is set to do away with bricks and mortar retail stores that sell CE products and appliances, instead the Company is investing millions in a new online operation according to Company Managing Director John Hughes.

Nearly 10 Million Mobile Devices Shipped To Australia in 07 According to the IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, in 2007, some 9.64 million mobile devices were shipped to Australia, with over one-third of these- or about 3.55 million being shipped in Q4, making the last quarter of 07 the highest on record.

Harman Offers To Buy Into Marantz & Denon Brands Harman Kardon the US sound and vision Company has made a part takeover offer for D&M Holdings the maker of the Denon and Marantz brands of speakers. Japanese media sources are claiming that Harman International Industries has offered to buy 49 percent of the company for US$701 million.

The Future Looks "Nasty" For B&O Say Analysts Things are not looking good for Danish sound Company Bang & Olufsen who earlierthis year ousted its Chief Executive. Now their shares have tanked to their worst in four years. The Company has also been forced to reduce its profit forecasts for the second time in two months.

Crazy MD To Take On OZ Market Brendan Fleiter, the new managing director of mobile phone reseller Crazy John's says the company is heading for some very interesting as well as expansive times.

Yahoo & Microsoft Meet In Secret Talks Microsoft and Yahoo have met in secret in what could be the first crack in the stand-off between the two Companies.

JB Hi-Fi Encouraged Despite Low Consumer Confidence Although Westpac?s latest Consumer Sentiment Index points to record low consumer confidence, JB Hi-Fi?s CEO remains positive that the retail market will stay stable.

Where Will CE Grow If There Is A Recession With a recession tipped where is the CE growth going tocome from? According to retail analyst Craig Woolford from Citi Group the best spots are WA, Queensland and the emerging rural markets.

Big Drama At Derwent Howard As Future Titles Exit BREAKING NEWS: A massive split has taken place at IT publisher Derwent Howard with Karl Penn the Group Publishing Director being asked to leave the premises immediately. He is set to establish a Future Media linked company and has taken titles with him.

Brands Who Refused Greenpeace Exposed Sony A Big Winner Sony have scored big with Greepeace and it has nothing to do with donations. Following months of testing and evaluation the Sony Vaio TZ11 laptop and the Sony Ericsson T650i mobile phone and the Sony Ericsson P1i PDA have come out on top in Greenpeace's first "greener electronics products review". Companies that refused to submit products despite being asked to do so were Acer, Apple, Microsoft, Nintendo and Sharp.

Betta Electrical Set For Regional Expansion Betta Electrical will open a new store at Dunsborough, Western Australia as part of a regional expansion strategy by its franchise group BSR Australia Limited.

Nintendo & Sharp Offices Raided In Price Fixing Probe Sharp and Nintendo are under investigation for price fixing. Investigators from the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) have raided the offices of both Companies seeking documents and emails that would give them evidence that Nintendo and Sharp conspired to fix the price of Nintendo DS handheld games.

Woolworths Goes After Harveys, JB Hi-Fi With Dick Smith Re-Vamp Australia?s largest retailer, Woolworths Ltd, has reported a first-half profit increase of 28 percent, and says it now plans to bring its Dick Smith stores into a market leading position, in line with the success of its other businesses.

Telstra Loses Line Sharing Dispute With EFTel Broadband service provider EFTel has won an interim determination for cost relief from the ACCC over its line sharing access dispute with Telstra.

Ingram Finally Take On CEDIA & CE Distributor In Oz The world's largest technology distributor Ingram Micro has finally announced a brand new CE and AV Pro division that will sell consumer electronics, software, networking, digital signage and security products, for the home and commercial environments. The move will put pressure on several CEDIA industry distributors as well as those selling into the fast growing CE market.

Frank Foxtel Email Reveals Database Woes An frank email sent by Foxtel Corporate Affairs has revealed the problems the Company is facing in the move to a new customer database.

Telstra First-Half Profits Soar Telstra has reported a first-half profit of almost $2 billion dollars an increase of 13 per over the same period last year. They have also raised their guidance for full-year revenues after achieving $12.4 billion in earnings.

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