Stories about: Red Sheriff

PostgreSQL 8.0 is the first major release of the open source database in over a year. Linuxworld talks to two of 8.0's key contributors, Gavin Sherry and Claudio Natoli, who also happen to hail from Australia, about why 8.0 is so significant; porting it to Windows, and reasons why mainstream vendors such as Fujitsu have taken a keen interest in the object-relational database.

Remember the days of the mammoth CRM project when big vendors sold complex software, wheeled in a busload of consultants leading up to the go-live date then scurried away with little responsibility for outcomes?

Website developers are preparing to make changes to their sites to support a special version of Internet Explorer.

The Australian closure of Monster.com.au this week has been followed by the remaining job networks repositioning in the market to gain competitive advantage.

Internet research company Red Sheriff has laid off one of its two New Zealand-based staff in a flurry of re-organisation that has seen development staff in Melbourne laid off and sales staff in Sydney also given the boot.

Television is still the king of the marketing mix and online advertising is often ineffective, with more than 50 percent of internet traffic driven to websites from TV, says industry researcher Red Sheriff.

New Zealand's largest ISP, Xtra, is considering subscribing to Hitwise, the service that tracks online traffic using ISP logs.

Auckland-based online shopping mall ArmadilloNet is to close its virtual doors, blaming its small business members for not changing or updating their entries.

Ratings and census measurement dominated the internet industry advertising meeting held yesterday morning, although participants said the level of discussion was fairly rudimentary.

Representatives of big business, big advertising, and media old and new met this morning (February 28) in Sydney to discuss issues relating to how advertising and web traffic are measured.

Ninemsn.com.au was the most visited Web site in Australia last year, followed by Yahoo.com.au and telstra.com and the telephone directory sites Whitepages.com.au and Yelowpages.com.au, according to Australian research company Red Sheriff.