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AlltradersFast-growing software specialist Alltraders has overhauled its website and launched new branding to focus attention on the boom in demand for its software engineering services.

The two-year-old company, which now has more than 20 employees, was established in Adelaide with an initial focus on website development services.

However, Alltraders director Michael O’Loughlin said the past two years had seen strong demand for the company’s software engineering and application development services. “We decided to overhaul the website at www.alltraders.com to better reflect the breadth of our activities,” he said.

A Fijian whale's tooth - or tabuaAdelaide antique dealer Peter Jenkinson has located a rare whale’s tooth – a sacred artifact known as a tabua - from Fiji.

Last year, Mr. Jenkinson bought the whale’s tooth from the son of an Australian Methodist minister, the Reverend Charles Dadds, who had received it as a gift from indigenous Fijians when he was a missionary from 1918-1920.

Mr. Jenkinson said the tabua was intricately interwoven in traditional Fijian cultural life. “Its relationship with the sacred is the key to its understanding,” he said.

Klaus BartoschIT executive Klaus Bartosch has traded in his tie for treadly tyres to lead a team that will ride pushbikes 200km over two days to raise funds for a major Conquer Cancer event in Queensland.

The Conquer Cancer ride is raising money and increasing visibility for the work of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, which is one of the world’s top cancer research centres.

Klaus, a senior executive of cloud computing services specialist Virtual Ark and formerly of Hostworks, will join more than 1500 participants on the Conquer Cancer ride, which starts on August 20.

After a strong start to his own fund-raising effort, Klaus has formed a team of 14 riders, each of whom has committed to raising at least $2500 in donations for the cause.

Cancer is a disease with a huge impact in this country. With an estimated 115,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed in Australia in 2010, cancer is the second leading cause of Australian deaths and affects almost 20 per cent of the population. More than 43,000 people are expected to die from cancer in 2011.

Klaus said the Conquer Cancer ride was his chance to make a difference. “It’s a cause I feel passionately about, being a cancer survivor myself and having lost friends, family and work colleagues to this horrible disease that sadly touches almost everyone,” he said.

Wireless networking specialist MIMP computing solutions will this week reveal the secret of where its name came from in a sponsorship of the wombat enclosure at Adelaide Zoo, to be unveiled on Friday.

MIMP, which is responsible for ground-breaking wireless networking projects Australia-wide, is a long-time supporter of the Adelaide Zoo, providing both wireless and fibre-optic communications throughout its grounds.

Adelaide Zoo has recognised MIMP’s commitment by offering the Richmond-based company an opportunity to sponsor one of the animal enclosures.

MIMP General Manager Allan Aitchison said the company was delighted to accept this opportunity. “We decided to sponsor the wombat enclosure because my nickname is Wombat,” he said.