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One of the great things about ecommerce is how it supports things like publishing of independently-produced comics that would otherwise be simply a labour of love.

Tad Pietrzykowski, for example, is an independent comic creator and publisher, using the new online distribution service of ComicsMonkey.com to help earn himself some money from his long-running Australian comics

Click on the title to read more eCommerce services give independent comic publishers a business model

Australian businesses have lost of choices for providers of online data back-up services.  But for most businesses the data limits or bandwidth restrictions set by their ISP are a very important factor. Which is why a new service from Sydney based BackMii might be worth a look.
Called BackMii Express the service lets your initial back-up be

Click on the title to read more Backmii offers local Australian data back-up service

Australian retailers should be especially wary of transactions with international customers and Visa or Mastercard credit-cards issued overseas.

That’s the clear message from this year’s official statistics on payments fraud released yesterday by the Australian Payments Clearing Association.
The statistics show payment fraud is at new highs, with credit cards once again the main problem.
Credit-cards from Visa and

Click on the title to read more Latest statistics carry important warning for Australian retailers – beware of international cards.

Controversy is brewing around one of Australia’s newest official domain name registrars – UK –owned SafeNames Ltd and especially the web page re-direction services of its SafeAgent business.
SafeNames and a German company InternetX, have recently been added to the list of officially accredited domain name registrars on the Australian Domain Administration Ltd (AuDA) web-site.
But SafeNames is

Click on the title to read more Safenames Ltd – new Au domain name registrar already in trouble

What is the connection between Perth based  Au domain name registrar Aust Domains Ltd and serial US domain name scammers, Brandon Gray Internet Services (aka known as Namejuice.com or WildWest Domains.)?

It’s a question worth asking because of the striking proximity of Aust Domains Ltd  contact address in Melbourne, and the Australian mailing address used by the

Click on the title to read more Aust Domains linked to US domain name scammers – Brandon Gray?