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CHOICE warns of online fraud

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... incarnations including SMiShing which uses mobile phones to gain information. CHOICE recommends consumers practice safe computing including credit card file checking, shredding bank statements, safeguarding documents and carefully reading bank and credit ...

SimCorp adds LexiFi modelling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... normally happen is your IT vendor would have to go away and take 18 months to two years to 'code up' in traditional computing coding languages for these instruments," he said. "The beauty [LexiFi] is it's a modeling language which allows you to rapidly ...

Inflation smashes through 4 pct barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... services (up 2.0 per cent). Sectors to experience a fall in costs were furniture (down 3.6 per cent), audio, visual and computing equipment (down 5.8 per cent), domestic holiday travel and accommodation (down 1.4 per cent) and accessories (down 5.3 per ...

Intel eyes China tech

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
The investment arm of computing giant Intel has doubled the size of its newest China technology fund in a bid to cash in on the country's booming IT sector. Intel Capital said the new $535.7 million China technology fund will be invested in wireless ...

Toolsets by managers, for managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... BlackRock. "What makes the dashboard so effective is that its designers are quantitative investment managers, not just computing people who may have had an idea," said Mahoney. This expertise gives them a leg-up when developing their system because they ...

Wikis may be working for Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... respond quickly to market changes and demands. While in the past banks have focussed their IT attention on monolithic computing systems that automate repeatable financial processes such as mortgage or cheque processing, analysts believe that having such ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... computer hardware and software shares were among the worst drags following Intel's results. Intel microprocessors are the computing engines of about 80 per cent of the world's personal computers. In late afternoon trade, the Dow Jones industrial average ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... purchase of Mannesmann in 2000, and would create a $US360 billion ($A388.04 billion) company -- roughly the same size as US computing giant Microsoft. Rio Tinto has already knocked back BHP's offer, but the world's biggest miner vowed to keep pursuing ...

Caught in the Web 2.0

Fund managers and financial planners should start using social computing tools such as wikis and blogs to engage investors and retain staff, said technology expert and Longhaus' managing director, Peter Carr. Speaking at the Rainmaker Marketing Symposium ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... caused by falls for car fuels(-12.4 per cent), fruit(-5.2 per cent), pharmaceuticals(-5 per cent) and audio visual and computing equipment(-2.7 per cent). On the other side the offsetting price increases were caused by domestic travel and accommodation ...