Coca-Cola has stated that it is to end the practice of product advertising [BugMeNot] on vending machines in schools in the UK. The move follows a similar statement covering Scotland, and is seen as a response to the growing mood against product promotions aimed at children during a period of growing childhood obesity
Online bank Egg is considering a move away from pure Web interfaces for its customers, in a shift that will have implications for developers as well as customer
AARNet has bypassed router heavyweights Cisco and Juniper to select Procket as the backbone platform for its superfast national optical network, AARNet3. Procket has pocketed a multimillion-dollar contract to supply 12 of its high-performance Pro/8000 series core routers for the Australian universities and scientific research network
One of Australia’s key beef customers, South Korea, has confirmed that some United States beef is being illegally labelled and sold as Australian product. South Korea banned imports of US beef when a case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washington State before Christmas, leaving Korean wholesalers with product still to sell. Mike Heywood from Meat and Livestock Australia says as a result Australian beef is in high demand, leading to the labelling scam
A federal judge rejects a company’s legal attempt to assail BadBusinessBureau.com, which features negative reviews from consumers who claim to have been ripped off by retailers
Foxtel announced today it had secured a $550 million bank facility which would fund its full digital conversion and launch of new digital services, expected in the first half of this calendar year
In this case Toys ‘R’ Us advertises using a giraffe mascot named Geoffrey. But Toys ‘R’ Us does not own the rights to that mascot, instead Geoffrey, Inc — a Toys ‘R’ Us subsidiary — owns them. So the toy store ‘licenses’ the trademark from Geoffrey, Inc, at a hefty rate, then calls that a business expense and deducts from its pre-tax income. Since Geoffrey, Inc isn’t a Louisiana company, Toys ‘R’ Us argued that it doesn’t need to pay Louisiana taxes on it’s income. The judge disagreed
As Wal-Mart stores continue to spread across the US, community opposition is also mounting from critics who say its ‘always low prices’ mean always low wages for nonunion workers and that its famous ‘rollbacks’ on goods roll over local businesses and economies
Spam is robbing Australian businesses of at least $2 billion annually, according to one estimate — and there’s little governments can do about it
Optus is planning to double its revenues to about $11 billion annually in the next seven to 10 years and is considering using offshore call centres as early as next year as part of its growth push — you have to wonder if this plan is less about the money and more about solving the problem of their current dodgy locally outsourced call centre generating more complaints against the company than all other services combined
David Pogue takes up arms against miscellaneous
charges on phone and banking bills, and against innocent
mistakes where customers are repeatedly, routinely overcharged
Over 38,000 Optus pay TV and Internet subscribers have been double-billed in what has been described by the company as a manual processing error
The record rate of woodchip exports is also a record rate of destruction in Tasmania’s forests. While Gunns got $419 million from sales to Asia, Tasmanians got just $25 million or so for royalties, plus the decimation of a natural resource
Replacing a pipe organ is no small undertaking. These majestic instruments are costly and difficult to build, and demand months of tuning and tweaking to deliver a perfect sound. In Europe, birthplace of the organ and long the dominant producer of them, they are also intensely political. When Lausanne decided in 1999 to replace the cathedral’s aging Swiss organ with a new one from an organ maker in Gloucester, Massachusetts, it was viewed by many Swiss as an act of heresy. Never before had a European cathedral entrusted such a sacred task to an American firm
A young entrepreneur has gotten into the business of recycling junked TV commercials for clients with low budgets. TV ads cost anywhere between $50,000 and $1 million and small businesses usually cannot afford an original production. The company, Thought Equity, wipes off all references to the earlier company and makes the junked commercial ready for reselling with a price tag less than $10,000
Caterpillar faced protests this week against its sales of bulldozers to Israel. A dozen protestors marched outside its head office in Iowa, USA. They included Cheryl Brodersen, the aunt of Rachel Corrie, the 24-year old peace protestor who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in March 2003
Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble conducted a secret RFID trial involving Oklahoma consumers earlier this year. Customers who purchased P&G’s Lipfinity brand lipstick at the Broken Arrow Wal-Mart store between late March and mid-July unknowingly left the store with live RFID tracking devices embedded in the packaging. Wal-Mart had previously denied any consumer-level RFID testing in the United States
While OzEmail subscribers fume over undelivered email, the supplier of the ISPs e-mail platform says it has not asked for technical assistance. According to OzEmail, only its MyMail webmail users have been affected by an outage that has been going on for more than two weeks. However, many customers have described a wide range of problems beyond the webmail product
Troubled software maker Novell has announced plans to acquire Germany’s SuSE Linux for US$210 million in cash, and entered talks with IBM to extend agreements between IBM and SuSE
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel threatened to sue the makers of the Simpsons over a spoof news ticker. The show’s creator Matt Groening said Fox News raised the unlikely prospect of suing a show broadcast by its sister channel, Fox Entertainment, because it wanted to stop the Simpsons parodying its famously anti-Democratic party agenda
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