Serious organised crime groups - SOCGs to the cognoscenti - in Australia are increasingly using business express deposit boxes and Internet banking for money laundering, according to a new report from Austrac, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre.
Sydney-based start-up Data Republic has secured $10.5 million in funding from Qantas, National Australia Bank and Westpac, which it states will help underpin its expansion strategy in the US later in the year.
The Federal Court has found Panasonic guilty of deceptive advertising and misleading consumers under section 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974, for its 2008 Christmas Bonus Wii promotion.
UCC Australia has imported Super Talent Technology's PICO-C Gold, a 24-carat gold-plated, water-resistant USB drive that weighs less than 5gms. It is smaller than an SD card, and can store over 2,000 MP3 songs.
Sonys VAIO range of notebooks is back with a sleek new corporate look. The new models have done away with the lilac pearl finish and now sports a two-tone design of silver and metallic black.
HP's Spectre XT crams a full-sized notebook into Ultrabook proportions, but has HP been forced to sacrifice functionality? And if so, what's been given the axe?