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Q. Which was the only Australian utility that for a long time did not accept payments over the Internet?

A. Telstra's Bigpond Internet cable service.

BOOKS BY N E RENTON

Understanding Online Investing
    A book for the 21st century
    A brief discussion of some common Internet investment scams is included

Public Relations, Newsletters and Internet Usage for Organisations
    An easy-to-read manual for business and other organisations

RHETORICAL QUESTIONS

What do readers think of the ethics of a software company that leaves serious bugs in its programs and then holds its customers to ransom by charging a fee for help in fixing them up?

Which foreign government permits scam advertisers to openly promote credit cards obtained through the use of fake social security numbers?

USEFUL LINKS

Consolidated List of Internet Links of Interest to Australian Investors and Others
    (from N E Renton's Books, updated and expanded)

Date Formats
    An essay

Web Design
    An essay

Is the World Wide Web illegal?
    An essay

The ABS Attitude to the Internet is Unfair
    An essay

Ensuring the Accuracy of Links    new

Internet Scams

Favourite Search Engines

AND, FINALLY, A BIT OF HISTORY

From a recent book by Nick Renton:

"I think that there is a world market for maybe five computers"
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943

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