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Tuesday, 18 May 2010 10:23

Microsoft wants to help model the world

Microsoft has announced an ambitious project to help scientists, engineers and others create and run simulation models of real-world phenomena.

Published in Development

Former tech veep of Fidelity Investments, and tech geek, Joseph McGrath, has joined TrustDefender's US operations to further the strategic initiative of defending trust online, worldwide.

Published in Security

Empowered by unique technology and a buoyed by a stunning $16m investment in Australia, despite the global financial crisis, TrustDefender is taking its technology to the world's top tier financial instutitions and expects strong security success.

Published in Security

Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), the world's number one independent leader in data integration software, announced that Banco Popular is implementing Informatica Data Quality to improve the quality of information handled by the company and contribute to the launch of more effective business campaigns.

Wednesday, 03 March 2010 15:18

Melbourne IT hires ex-Lonely Planeteer as CFO

Melbourne IT has appointed Carolyn Sutton as its chief financial officer.
Published in People Moves
Thursday, 26 November 2009 09:36

New year will ring in a new CFO at Microsoft

The Microsoft CFO's office is about to get a new occupant. An internal promotion will see Peter Klein take control of the purse strings.

Published in People Moves
Friday, 06 November 2009 10:14

Automation speeds life insurance sales

An automated application and underwriting process has allowed the Commonwealth Bank's insurance arm to streamline life policy sales through financial advisors.

Published in Market
Microsoft’s marketing arm excitedly churned out a case study in 2005 when the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rolled out a C# stock exchange ticker system on Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000. Four years later the LSE has scrapped the whole system in favour of a Linux-based solution instead.

Published in The Linux Distillery
Wednesday, 03 June 2009 20:43

Commonwealth Bank under siege by phishers

Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, has been undergoing a series of phishing attacks that have gone from simple alerts of “banking errors”, through to chances of winning money, and now an attack that wants CommBank users to call a number and verify their details to a talking computer – but it’s all just a phishing scam!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Prominent Australian and New Zealand payroll software company, Sage MicrOpay, has issued version 5 of their flagship Meridian product. For existing customers the upgrade is a seamless process except for one thing - it ignores every single saved setting and customisation.

Published in Development
Monday, 04 May 2009 07:30

Quicken reaches out to iPhone users

Quicken has released a free iPhone app for US users of its Quicken Mobile service.

Published in Mobility
Last week I spilled the beans Telstra were about to announce new shared data plans for their range of NextG modems. This is a major plus for business users seeking to control costs but yet provide their workforce with mobile working options. The pricing has now been announced.

Published in Strategy
The use of portable USB, or built-in, 3G modems with laptops is becoming increasingly common in today's highly online society. Yet, such service comes at a cost - for many, a disturbingly high cost. Telstra are soon to announce new group NextG data plans to help enterprises better manage their costs.

Published in Strategy
Melbourne based enterprise software house, Pronto Software, have released a major new version of their flagship ERP product, dubbed PRONTO-Xi Phase 6. Included, among other features,  is greater integration with Microsoft Outlook and support for Google Analytics.

Friday, 27 February 2009 17:00

A CIO's guide to relevancy during recession

Hello, my name is David. I'm a CIO. I had to make someone redundant today. At the same time my own influence on the board is vanishing. If you’re making the same confession here’s a self-help program for you.

Published in Market
Friday, 20 February 2009 03:39

Time for an online banking security revolution

With 2008 showing just how big the “underground economy” has become, and with numerous examples of banking Trojans and malware reaching new heights of nefariousness, 2009 is a do-or-die year for the banking industry – especially in the midst of the global financial crisis.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
It's the classic battle between the suits and the geeks, but there's no denying in these economically turbulent times business leaders need to skill up their own basic IT ability.

Published in Market
Thursday, 22 January 2009 08:52

Another record quarter for Apple

Apple has again booked record quarterly revenue and profits. Revenue for its first quarter of fiscal 2009 exceeded $US10 billion.

Published in Core Dump
Thursday, 22 January 2009 03:23

Fallout 3 distributer Red Ant squished

Video games are big business, in Australia alone, the interactive entertainment industry spins out more than twice the cash than the movie box office.  But still there are victims, the latest one?  Konami, Capcom (Resident Evil 5), Midway and Fallout 3 creator, Bethesda’s distributer Red Ant.

Published in Radioactive IT
Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit potentially the worst of the bunch, completely invisible to traditional AV programs – but not to TrustDefender.

Published in Home Tech

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