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Founded in London on September 1, 1837, the Union Bank of Australia Ltd. opened in Launceston in 1838. The first branch was established in Launceston, Tasmania (then, of course, Van Diemen’s Land) on May 1st, 1838, when the Tamar Bank was taken over. A branch at Hobart Town followed in early course. The taking over of the Tamar Bank was
We don’t like outright banning certain WordPress plugins on our server, but ‘Contact Form 7’ – a plugin widely used by millions – is riddled with vulnerabilities, and is is constantly the subject of exploits. One of our clients had it installed, then was a few days late with an update, and it compromised his entire website. Our form system
As part of the support program we provide to certain brokers, they have access to a facility that allows them to render advertising on some of our Satellite websites. BSBnumbers and Police (both part of a much broader Satellite network) returned 684-million in the last year that we know about – quite a staggering figure, but ‘typical’ of the projects
In terms of our AI ambitions, Text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) functionality are both very simple features, but the systems have provided our BeNet AI with a voice so it’s able to interact with the real world. With the introduction of open-sourced tools and accessible AI engines, technology reached an infection point last year that gave birth to an AI-uprising….
Founded in 1823, the Bank of Van Diemen’s Land was the first commercial financial institution in Van Diemen’s Land, later the Colony of Tasmania. Nicknamed the ‘Old Bank’ , the Bank of Van Diemen’s Land traded for 68 years before becoming the first major bank failure of what would eventuate into the Australian banking crisis of 1893. The featured photgraph
Today’s Shad is the day comes from leadgen charlatans. There’s a certain stupidity in buying (or selling) ‘500+’ leads. However, we’ll do one better: well send your 5000 leads a month or we’ll give your a million dollars (seriously). The point is this: generating leads is a piece of cake. Converting them is where the challenge lies. Would you rather
In our latest update, we’ve pushed a full suite of text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools. Integrated with Yabber, our VoIP systems, the SMS modules, and your website, it provides enterprise-level features as part of your access to Yabber. The website module includes top-of-page accessibility audio, shortcode options, and the only TTS Elementor block on the planet. The purpose of the tools
People actually pay for this BS. These ads literally came up within 30-seconds of each other (there’s probably a ton more). The ads are ‘probably’ a mix of leadgen and purchased products – at this point I’ve lost the motivation to check. They’re all trash. All pictired ads are identical. In each case, the ad and backend ‘features’ could be
Shad of the Day, 15th April 2023. Today’s Shit Ad comes to us from the leadgen crooks behind AussieCompares. Lies, deception, non-compliance, massive breaches of every piece of governing legislation (including Privacy Act 1988), illegal baiting, operating unlicensed, failure to disclose etc. The list must goes on and on. Stop buying leads. Treat your customer first and best interest obligations
Shad of the Day, 13th April 2022. More of the same illegal, misleading, non-compliant, and baiting advertising. A shameful thought to think there are brokers supporting this abhorrent practice. Forcing the irrelevant questions (associated with a completely unknown and unlicensed entity), delivering a ‘You Qualify’ message, and hiding fake results (on the back of the ‘promise’ of results) behind a
This is important. We conducted an early broker AI experiment with results that might represent industry norms sooner than later. We assigned mortgage broker tasks to an AI and had the system carry a loan (with supervision) from a website-based AI-enquiry through to ‘settlement’. The results give us a very clear indication of how the industry might evolve in the
