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.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has followed National Australia Bank (NAB) in rolling out contactless payment terminals to select locations.
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 Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is going ahead with release nine of its mammoth Systems for People project this weekend, an effort which had its content rejigged because of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's detention policy.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship is about to put major elements of its mammoth Systems for People technology overhaul behind it as it looks to its next release.
When Coles introduced Fly Buys, Woolworths introduced Everyday Rewards. When Coles introduced petrol discount vouchers, Woolworths introduced petrol discount vouchers. It's a bold plan, but can it and Coles' inevitable copycat product change the prepaid mobile world for the better?
While we continue to talk about Australia's ICT skills shortage, more than 3,000 potential sponsorships are being blocked by impediments to the 457 visa scheme.
Near field communications -- or NFC -- may sound like another dull mobile acronym. However, the reality is a smooth system that will delight the lazy and impatient.
In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.
Second Life, with an alleged population of 7.979 million, is changing the way businesses think about what their customers want, and whether "virtual" is a viable way to give it to them.
silicon.com's Jo Best looks at 10 oft-debated areas in mobile and wireless and asks a simple question: how much should you care over the next 12 months?
Leasing computer equipment makes sense in a lot of situations, but the process needs to be managed as carefully as an actual purchase. These tips will help your organisation make sound leasing decisions.
Can a national ID card protect Australians against terrorist attacks? And can citizens' details be protected by Public Key Infrastructure? We look at the types of hardware and software employed to combat terrorism, and how ports and other critical infrastructure are protected.
At VMworld in San Francisco, VMware CTO Stephen Herrod shows a Visa mobile application on a Microsoft Windows CE device that is also running virtually on Google's Android OS.
Databases are by no means an easy product category to understand. Many of the big players now offer free or "light" versions of their databases, but comparing them all is no easy task -- as we found out.
Does your company's human resource management functions need to be automated? We look at what you need to consider, and three packages to help you do it.
Sun Microsystems will release new software that takes advantage of the Liberty technology for simplifying the process of signing on to multiple Web sites.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
The beta for Microsoft Office 2010 is here and we've had a chance to check out the latest version. Though the … Watch it now
Ben Forta: All about Adobe
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt
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