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IT failures roundup: Banks around the world!

Failures seem to come in waves, and today it's banking. Think your bank's systems are perfect? Don't be so sure. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Software, Bank, Information Technology, Debit Card, Online Banking, UBS AG, Australian IT, Banking, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Tools & Techniques, E-business/E-Commerce, Management, Internet, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-02-27

Qantas IT problems cause Sydney airport "chaos"

Poor staff training on Qantas' new Altea Departure Control-Flight Management system led to delays on flights departing from Sydney, Australia. Given the airline's poor IT record, no one should be surprised. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: information technology, qantas airways ltd., australian it, strategy, management, michael krigsman

Blog posts 2008-08-08

Additional Resources

TacOps 4.06AHu (Mac)

TacOps 4 is the commercial version of "TacOpsCav 4," an officially issued standard training device of the US Army. It is a simulation of contemporary and near-future tactical, ground, combat between United States Army and Marine, Canadian, New Zealand/Australian and German forces versus various opposing forces OPFOR, simulating the Former...

Tags: Force, Apple Macintosh, Training, Battlefront.com, TacOps 4, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-28

Apple pitching media companies on tablet?

If you read between the lines in yesterday's post, one could conclude that Apple is talking to the New York Times about it's upcoming tablet product in an effort to get buy in from the media giant on what's presumed to be a completely new form-factor...

Tags: Media Company, Apple Inc., Fairfax Media, Tablets, Notebooks, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Windows 7's latest fan: Linus Torvalds

This is great news! This picture is proof positive that Linus T. is ditching linux because it was so bloated and scarey that he is converting to Microsoft Windows 7. If the leader of linux is doing it then we can say it won't be long before the rest...

Tags: Operating systems, Happy Days, Linus Torvalds, Linus, Microsoft Windows 7, Linux, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Australian Oxford Dictionary for iPhone 2.1.2 (Mobile)

Australian Oxford Dictionary for iPhone is a major revision of the most authoritative Australian Dictionary for all Australians. This flagship dictionary draws on the databases of Australian English at the Australian National Dictionary Centre. It contains over 110,000 headwords -over 200,000 index entries, more than 10,000 encyclopedic entries with special...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Entry, Enfour, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-20

OpenLieroX 0.57 rc1 (Mac)

OpenLieroX is like the original Liero kind of a realtime Worms. OpenLieroX is based and compatible to the famous LieroX. LieroX is a 2D shooter game. It is an unofficial sequel to Liero, and is the most popular of all the Liero clones. It features online play, fully customizable...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Player, Albert Zeyer, OpenLieroX, LieroX, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-10-10

Should Obama Have Won the Nobel?

What are you going to do about it?Please,reveal how many more extremists there are for the secrete service to watch.I'm as big an Obama fan as anyoneBut the fact is that he hasn't accomplished anything worthy of such a prize. He says the right things, certainly, but until plans are...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Nobel, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Aussie power grid threatened by virus

Nasty virusInfects and corrupts several file typesspreads in network sharesOne of the few virus I've encountered that can only be cleaned up by reloading windowsRE: Aussie power grid threatened by virusIf there's "absolutely no way it could make its way onto the grid" then don't use a sensational headline like...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, power grid, virus, tool

Discussion threads 2009-10-01

Australia Child Care Benefit Calculator 2.0.2009 (Windows)

This FREE Child Care Benefit Calculator aims to help Australian parents to estimate their Child Care Benefit CCB percentage and how much CCB and Child Care Rebate CCR they can get from Australian Government. This Child Care Benefit Calculator estimates the Child Care Benefit Percentage (CCB %) based on no....

Tags: Children, Investment Property Calculator, Microsoft Windows, Benefits, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-10-01

PassagePlus 1.7.0 (Mac)

PassagePlus is a passage planning and navigation application aimed at the leisure boating market. It is compatible with the UK Hydrographic Office's ARCS Skipper, Land Information New Zealand's NZMariner and the Australian Hydrographic Service's Seafarer RNC electronic charts. Passage planning includes the creation or import of waypoints and routes and...

Tags: Passage, Apple Macintosh, Wind Vector, PassagePlus, GPS, Handhelds, Desktops, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-09-30

onCourse 1.7.13 (Mac)

onCourse allows you to track your students, courses and enrolments comprehensively. With minimal training your staff will be able to easily manage the most important information from across your organisation: web site pages, students, enrolments, invoices, tutors and much more. Everything you need is there: a full general ledger system,...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Web Site, onCourse, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-28

VintaSoftBarcode .NET Library 4.2.5 (Windows)

VintaSoftBarcode.NET Library - the high-end barcode reader and writer component for .NET developers. It supports reading & writing of 1D, postal and 2D barcodes in digital images and PDF files. Supported barcode types: Australian Post, Code 11, Code 39, Code 93, Code 128, Codabar, Data Matrix, EAN-8, EAN-13, Industrial standard...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Library, VintaSoft, .Net, C#, Application Servers, Middleware, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2009-09-22

Could Internet filtering cause more harm than good?

A rational blog from ZackA welcome surprise, but perhaps for once, in your area of expertise ;-)You've made some good points. Pedophilia is nothing new and before the Internet pictures, magazines, videos and films were used instead. Just as criminal, just as prosecuted, as are a number of...

Tags: Internet, Internet Filtering, government

Discussion threads 2009-09-16

News to know: Apple; AT&T; Google Books; Palm Pixi; Verizon; Best Buy-Microsoft

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Live blog from Apple's "It's only Rock n Roll" event Apple afterthoughts: The real news is what...

Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple iPod, Palm Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, Mary Jo Foley, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sam Diaz, Linux, Digital Music, Digital Media, Government, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Blog posts 2009-09-10

'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Anonymous has been know for years to be online terroristThe Anonymous group to me is a online terrorist organization, spamming, bullying, and hacking websites at any given time. Their acts are so random that it is hard to take many of their causes seriously. Sad to see...

Tags: SECURITY, Australian Government, distributed denial of service

Discussion threads 2009-09-09

'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government

Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...

Tags: Government, Crowdsourcing, Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-09

Why open source remains an ideological divide

Oh that was superb.Open Source.Stand for something! :)you are ideological from the startIf you want to remove ideology from the equation your clearly state your needs - functionnal, commercial and technical support ... etc, and compare available solutions.Price might be a key factor and it might not; availability of srouce...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, OSS, open source

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Dear Mr Fuller you have to understand a few thing WEll even if i find your post always refreshing and deeply educating you must understand this until there hurrican lvl 6and 7 or twister force 6 or 7 or all coastal area will be under...

Tags: Ban Ki-moon

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

iNews Australia 1.0 (Mobile)

iNews Australia gives access to feeds of Australia section of most admired news sources. It provides news feeds of the Australia sections from The Australian, News.com, Sydney Morning Herald, OECD, Google, Yahoo, Big News Network, SKY news, and ABC News. This application features get latest news of all news providers...

Tags: Mobile, Australia, Newsfeed, PLAVEB, E-mail, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-02