Stories about: QBE

Cyber insurance will become as commonplace as car or home or any form of business cover within a decade as a way to mitigate financial losses should a "cyber attack" occur and sensitive data be lost or stolen.

A new online insurance brokering service has been launched in Australia to ease customers through the tedious process of finding, buying or renewing general insurance.

Once upon a time it was the three letter acronyms, most notably CSC, EDS and IBM, that dominated Australia's IT services landscape.

QBE's Australia Pacific Asia Central Europe Division (APACE) is introducing rules-driven technology to improve the company's business process management (BPM) capabilities.

A consortium of six of Australia's major providers of general insurance has inked a multimillion dollar contract with IBM to deliver the industry's first centralised electronic compliance Hub.

Fujitsu Australia claims it can halve legacy system migration costs by automating more than 95 per cent of the software conversion process for organisations seeking new options for core business applications.

IT managers not wanting to touch their systems and networks in order to control spam should look into having their e-mail routed through a dedicated filtering service, says QBE Insurance's group IT security manager Murray Laracy.

Consider the ancestral Galapagos finch. As Darwin first noted, that species has evolved into numerous forms, each adapted to a particular environmental niche while retaining its essential finchness. Likewise, the standard beige-box computer is evolving. One branch of the PC family tree is sprouting funky colors and legacy-free designs that shed older slots and ports, limit expandability, and embrace new, unusual shapes. Another branch is budding with Internet appliances--products whose limited functions make them easier to use. Will the average beige-box PC end up on the endangered species list as a result?

I've seen pen-based tablet computers before, but the Qbe Cirrus from Irvine, Calif.-based Aqcess Technologies Inc. is the first one that really intrigued me as a computer. The Cirrus is the biggest tablet computer yet - as big and heavy as a laptop - but it's still designed to be carried in one arm and used with input from a cord-attached stylus, voice recognition technology and a built-in digital camera.

Aqcess Technologies Inc. Thursday announced it has begun shipping its Qbe Cirrus Personal Computing Tablet, a Windows-based system about the size of a 2-inch-thick stack of legal-sized paper.

There is a big difference between being able to bring your computer with you and being able to actually use it when on the move.