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Doom dollar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... the economy. Oh no sir! Not while jobless Americans are still growing in number. Tourists could indeed find themselves computing their spending money in euros or in yens or in the Gulf Common Currency in the future. Or perhaps even in yuans. China after ...

IT dept holds key to cost cutting

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Super funds and fund managers could reduce their cost base through technology after research found cloud computing can save more than $12,000 a year in electricity bills. A NetSuite sustainability impact survey and using information from a study by ...

Microsoft battles Google Docs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... application (web apps) that allows users to read and manipulate Office word and Excel spreadsheets online. But Google's cloud computing dominance could be cut short by Microsoft's more aggressive foray into the web-apps sector - starting with the launch ...

Fin services firms eye green IT

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... senior IT executives are talking about adopting a green IT strategy. A green IT strategy is designed to make a firm's computing resources more efficient by using less power and still remaining highly productive. The Symantec Corporation's 2009 Worldwide ...

Clouds still far away

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... technology. According to a new survey from Avanade Australia, around 80 per cent of Australian companies are not using cloud-computing systems, choosing instead to depend on old school internal IT systems. Meanwhile, the survey also confirmed that seven ...

Aus FMs avoid Satyam scandal

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... country's growth story among local investors. "There's no question there will be collateral damage and I think other computing companies will come under increased scrutiny," he said. "I think any investors will be asking what should be the risk premium ...

Secure Computing beats hackers at own game

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Secure Computing is helping financial services firms from inadvertently downloading malicious software without limiting the sites they can access by thinking like a hacker. The Australian Tax Office, the Royal Mint and a range of local banks are known ...

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 ...