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    • Blog, Enterprise IT - May 17, 2013 11:49 - 6 Comments

    32 years later, CGU replaces insurance IT platform

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    blog Think core banking platforms last a long time? Check out the gray hairs and wrinkles on the positively ancient insurance IT system which CGU is still running. This thing is so old it should be code-named ‘Methuselah’. In fact, we’d be very curious to know precisely what platform CGU is running it on at this point. iTNews tells us (we recommend you click here for the full article):

    “Insurer CGU will look to replace its 32-year-old core policy maintenance system (PMS) in the coming year as it embarks on a new three-year growth plan. PMS was implemented in 1981 as an off-the-shelf package but has been modified significantly over the years.”

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    Featured, Internet, News, Security, Telecommunications - May 16, 2013 21:59 - 15 Comments

    ASIC blocked “numerous” sites over 9 months

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    news The Australian Securities and Investments Commission revealed tonight that it had in fact blocked “numerous” websites over the past nine months which it suspected contained illegal material, as fears about the extent of the agency’s covert Internet filtering scheme continue to grow.

    Last night the Federal Government confirmed ASIC, the financial regulator, had started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appeared to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deemed questionable in their own portfolios.

    The move is based on the use of Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act, which allows government agencies to ask ISPs for reasonable assistance in upholding the law, a mechanism which is also being used for the Government’s limited Interpol-based filter to block child abuse material. However, the law is not usually used to block websites, and there appears to be no public oversight of the process which ASIC is using, no appeals mechanism, and no transparency to the public or interaction with the formal justice system. ASIC’s action came to light after the regulator in April blocked several sites suspected of providing fraudulent investment information, but also resulted in the inadvertent blockage of some 1,200 other innocent sites.

    The news was immediately greeted with alarm by a number of political groups and digital rights lobby organisations, which expressed concern that ASIC’s move could herald the covert return of the Federal Government’s previous mandatory Internet filtering scheme, which the Government abandoned in November last year. Commentators immediately called upon the Government to reveal how widespread the blocking practice was, and the news spurred journalists and activists to file Freedom of Information requests in an effort to ascertain the full extent of the situation. Continue…

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    Blog, Gadgets - May 13, 2013 15:52 - 0 Comments

    Sony Xperia Z tablet hits Australia

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    blog Sony’s last clutch of Android tablets, as with the offerings from virtually every other manufacturer, failed to make much of a dent on the Apple-dominated tablet market. However, Google’s recently had a series of hits with its Nexus line-up, and Samsung has also recently stepped up to the plate with its ‘Note’ series of tablets. Can Sony be the third party to succeed in breaking through in the hyper-competitive Android tablet market? We’ll find out shortly, as the company late last week confirmed plans to deploy its Xperia Tablet Z model locally, with pre-orders starting from this morning and the unit landing at retailers from 6 June. The Xperia tablet Z’s specs:

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    Gaming, Reviews - May 15, 2013 12:36 - 0 Comments

    Injustice: Gods Among Us: Review

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    This review comes from Digitally Downloaded.

    review Warner Bros. clearly had this game in mind when it acquired Ed Boon’s team at NetherRealm Studios. It must have been a moment of celebration at the publisher’s headquarters when a premier fighting game developer went on the open market; here was after all an opportunity to bring in-house the development of a superhero fighting game that was finally going to do justice to superhero fighting games.

    So NetherRealm was acquired and Injustice: Gods Among Us is a Mortal Kombat game with a DC universe skin. As awesome as the game is, there is a problem with this setup that permeates the entire experience; Boon and his team have not fully been able to break away from their own design traditions and philosophies and this game is so slavishly faithful to the Mortal Kombat franchise that I was honestly surprised that I was not able to execute fatalities. And even then each character has an ultra attack that looks and feels like a bloodless fatality. Continue…

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