Police advise not to use Windows for internet banking

Consumers wanting to safely connect to their internet banking service should use Linux or the Apple iPhone, according to a detective inspector from the NSW Police, who was giving evidence on behalf of the NSW Government at the public hearing into Cybercrime today in...

Bank me up, Scotty!

Interstellar ‘kredits’ from in an online game converted to hard cash?  Well, I’ll be beamed up by Scotty, how could that be possible?  According to a Reuters report making the headlines ‘down under’, an enterprising Australian gamer, given the responsibility of...

How Predictable?

Will telecom suffer the fate of other industries or make it through the economic downturn in one piece? I’m not one for predicting the future, but I don’t mind attempting to influence it, within my reasonable means. Every new year we seem to be overwhelmed with what...

Banking via Mobiles in Africa

The so-called ‘mattress to mobile’ revolution, whereby Africans are moving from the habit of keeping under the bed what small sums of physical cash they have and to the use of cellphone-based systems able to deal in transfers of virtual money.  Read...