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.
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has agreed to set up a national telephone emergency warning system to which the Federal Government has committed up to $15 million.
Network security experts F-Secure say there's a relatively simple reason why even the savviest mobile phone owners are falling prey to a new virus.
The 'Trojan' SMS dialler infecting mobile phones running pirate copies of the "Mosquitos" game is not actually a Trojan at all but rather a botched copy-protection feature of the original game.
Serving customers a double blow, Telstra will winch up its broadband Internet pricetag, hot on the heels of its recent mobile phone price rates that has left the ACCC investigating anti-competitive claims.
Tevye, the much loved protagonist of Fiddler on the Roof, was full of wisdom. "A bird may love a fish," he memorably said, "but where would they build a home together?"
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Before handing over your IT requirements to a host, you had better learn to play all your cards right.
For mobile individuals and business users, GoToMyPC's Web- based service is the easiest remote-access service to set up and use, and it's also versatile. However, it's priced higher than the competition.
Swelling the ranks of 11.6-inch netbooks, the Asus Eee PC 1101HA impresses with its design and battery, but having to overclock a slower version of Intel's Atom CPU is a dodgy workaround.
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LG makes some of our favourite prepaid handsets, and the TU720 is no exception. This new Shine matches good looks with great basic functionality and an excellent online experience.
Apple's 15-inch MacBook Pro makes only minor tweaks to the previous version, but cutting prices and swapping the ExpressCard slot for an SD card slot are enough to make it a solid improvement over its predecessor.
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