Visa Australia said today it was moving to chip and PIN technology for all of its credit cards, with signature transactions to be banned by April 2013.
National Australia Bank has announced that it will roll out systems to over 500 Melbourne merchants this month, which will enable them to take customers' payment when they hold their cards up to a reader, but has stopped developing technology for payments via mobile phone.
Privately held software house Mincom today denied claims the company was shifting Australian jobs to Malaysia, saying it was in fact moving roles away from its Indian facility.
No large Australian organisations are known to be planning an Office 2010 migration, and many have not even completed their move to Office 2007.
SMS Management and Technology and DWS are looking to hire around 80 staff despite the economic environment that has caused other companies to cut wages or introduce hiring freezes.
One year into its tenure, how has the new New Zealand Government performed on issues of technology and telecommunications?
Relaxed Melbourne-based start-up Stateless Systems won't be the next Amazon or Google, but the founders are already internet legends and likely to become even more cool as they launch more quirky products.
Marauders' maps, deluminators and sneakoscopes have their place, but Harry could have solved most of his problems by turning to Muggle technology.
Back in mid-February of this year, I almost attended a conference held in Sydney by technology vendor CA.
In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.
With apologies to John Clarke and Bryan Dawe, ZDNet.com.au's Ratbags team has put together its own interpretation of the Federal Government's internet filtering initiative.
Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.
The Colossus code-cracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years.
Cisco Systems, a multibillion-dollar player in security tools for businesses, is planning to move into the consumer market.
We have all heard the phrase "IT needs to align with the business" but what does it actually mean, and how are businesses achieving it?
At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new...
Patchlink's international senior vice president Andrew Clarke told ZDNet Australia that the company is taking a slightly new direction after acquiring a vulnerability management company earlier this year. Clarke also admitted that the company is likely to change its name within a few months.
Many companies aren't buying Windows XP--or they're buying the licenses but not installing the software. Microsoft's marketing machine is looking to change that as the Service Pack 2 update rolls out.
The last year has seen prices tumble for network attached storage. We look at four of the best options to get some more storage on your network.
Payphone manufacturer and operator TriTel today unveiled a new payphone that offers Internet access, e-mail, Web browsing and SMS messaging.
An obscure messaging feature in Windows could be the latest source of security problems for Internet users, experts have warned.
Netscape these days survives as a desolate outpost in the vast AOL Time Warner empire, something akin to banishment to Irkutsk. But what if history had a different twist?
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The long-awaited separation of Telstra
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