NAB fallout Still Continues
Almost 20,000 bank accounts still have uncorrected mistakes five days after a corrupted computer file crippled the National Australia Bank’s payment system, causing processing and transaction delays.
Millions of people were stranded without cash for days, which an expert said the bank could have avoided.
“The impact to the customers need not have happened,” transaction management expert and Sydney University professor Professor Alan Fekete told AAP. Read more
Apple Users Remains Loyal to Smartphone
A new report from research firm GfK shows that loyalty in the smartphone market is a hard thing to command for handset manufacturers with 56% of 2,653 people surveyed admitting they were keeping their options open as to which phone they would buy next.
As smartphone manufacturers scramble to innovate their handsets, offering the best high-resolution cameras, super clear displays and support for the next generation mobile networks, smartphone owners are leaving their options open, especially now that manufacturers are moving towards open-sourced operating systems like Google’s Android software, leaving a phones hardware as its key differentiator.
December 10 Launching of Sharp’s Galapagos E-book Tablet
Sharp will launch its Galapagos e-book tablets in Japan on Dec. 10, but overseas launch plans are still under consideration, it said Monday.
The tablets will go on sale throughout Japan in two versions: one has a 5.5-inch screen and the other a 10.8-inch screen. They’ll cost ¥39,800 and ¥54,800 (US$474 and $652) respectively, the Osaka-based company said at a Tokyo news conference.
iPad 2 Will Have 5 New Features
Apple’s [AAPL] iPad 2.0 is on its way, and new rumors emerging from the supply chain suggest there’s a lot of truth in the recent ‘What we think we know about iPad 2.0′ report.
A Chinese language newspaper is reporting industry sources who claim Apple will add five new features to iPad 2:
Campfire Makes Ipad even Better through Sparks App
It can be hard to get excited about chat apps these days. But when it comes to a new portable device like the iPad and 37signal’s Campfire service, you have my attention.
If you’ve never used Campfire, 37signals essentially combined the advantages of the old school IRC (Internet Relay Chat) from days of yore with AIM chat rooms, then sprinkled in a few new tricks and targeted the service at businesses. You can create multiple rooms and invite coworkers to some or all of them, open the rooms up to the public, share files and view pictures in-line, use 128-bit encryption for all correspondence, set room topics, and even hold a conference phone call that gets recorded and archived for later.
Delays in NAB’s Transactions Still Continues
National Australia Bank (NAB) customers are facing a second day of transaction and payment delays as the bank struggles to catch up with the backlog caused by the ongoing system issue holding up transactions.
Many NAB customers awoke yesterday to find their bank balances missing funds that had been held up yesterday, including payments from employers and Centrelink. Read more
NBP Group Stacked by Labor MPs
THE committee being created to scrutinize the taxpayer-funded National Broadband Network will be stacked with Labor MPs and not operate until July.
This has sparked fresh criticism about inadequate scrutiny of the country’s biggest infrastructure project.
The committee – promised by Julia Gillard to secure the support of independent senator Nick Xenophon for crucial legislation to end Telstra’s market dominance and pave the way for the NBN – will have 16 members, of whom nine will be Labor-nominated. It will be chaired by independent Rob Oakeshott.
Content Certification for All Androids Apps
All Android apps will have content certification ratings added to them to help provide users with additional information when choosing apps over the course of the ‘next few weeks’, according to Android developer Eric Chu.
New and existing apps will be categorized in one of four categories: All, Pre-teen, Teen, & Mature.
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Greens support for NBN
The GREENS have defended a deal with Labor to make it more difficult to privatise the $43 billion National Broadband Network. The deal was struck to shore up Greens support in the Senate for a bill which will see the separation of Telstra’s retail and wholesale arms.
The agreement will see the government forgo its plan for automatic privatisation of the NBN five years after it is built. Read more
OECD sees dangers in NBN haste
THE OECD has urged the Gillard government to slow down the rollout of its $43 billion high-speed broadband network.
It has warned that the project is installing a public monopoly that could choke off the development of better internet technologies.
