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| Feb 7, 2025 | Global sports consultancy Octagon taps Kim Anderson to lead Australia | In a bid to increase its local presence, global sports consultancy Octagon has appointed 2023 women’s soccer world cup marketing lead Kim Anderson as its new Australia managing director.
Headquartered in the US as part of the Interpublic st... |
| Oct 21, 2024 | Australia’s New Scam Prevention Laws: What You Need to Know | Introduced by the Australian government in September, the Scam Prevention Framework (SPF) is the latest policy aimed at protecting scam victims. The framework places significant responsibility on the technology, banking, and telecommunicati... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | The Cultural Canvas: Unveiling the Hangeul Wall and Ik-Joong Kang's Artistic Journey | In the heart of New York City, a monumental event is set to unfold. The Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) will unveil the world's largest Hangeul Wall, a vibrant tapestry of culture and creativity. This wall, measuring 26 by 72 feet, ... |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models | Enlarge / A Samsung representative demonstrating Tizen OS in February.
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Samsung will provide operating system updates for its newer TVs for at least seven years, the company announced last week. The updates will f... |
| Jul 26, 2024 | “Recipe for disaster”: Consumer groups call for ad ban on BNPL for groceries, medicines | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
So-called “buy now pay later” arrangements for essentials such as food and medicines should be banned, consumer groups say.
Federal parliament is considering changes to credit laws that have not cove... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | Indie supermarket pricing to face new scrutiny as survey shows Woolies, Coles pricier than Aldi | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Prices at IGA supermarkets will come under closer scrutiny in future taxpayer-funded research, Competition Minister Andrew Leigh says, after a new report on prices at Woolworths, Coles, and Aldi cons... |
| May 24, 2024 | What uses more water: Dishwasher or washing by hand? | Does a dishwasher use more water than washing by hand? Images by cottonbro studio and Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels
With water shortages in various regions across the country, many of us are increasingly conscious of reducing our water consu... |
| May 2, 2024 | What the government can do to stop Australians from losing $5,200 a minute to scams | Source: joshua hoehne/unsplash. article-article-body
What if the government was doing everything it could to stop thieves making off with our money, except the one thing that could really work?
That’s how it looks when it comes to scams, wh... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Buyers sought as ‘smart’ cookware brand Zega falls into voluntary administration | The Zega Cookware pot and app. Source: supplied. article-article-body
The company behind a range of ‘smart’, bluetooth-enabled cookware has entered voluntary administration two years after it launched its first products.
Tim Heesh and Mark ... |
| Oct 23, 2023 | How Taylor Swift beat Victoria’s ticket scalpers with a nudge to the government | Source: FRONTIER TOURING, SUPPLIED article-article-body
The Victorian government has 14 days to decide on whether to use powers to thwart ticket scalpers for major events like music concerts. But such is the importance of Taylor Swift that ... |
| Jun 25, 2023 | Как проводить кастдев на английском и не налажать? | Важно отслеживать реакцию и жесты собеседника. Уточнять, что респондент понимает под теми или иными словами и понятиями, потому что даже в рамках одного языка и культуры люди могут по-разному считывать одни и те же вещи и подразумевать что-... |
| Apr 18, 2023 | Rental apps collect too much tenant data: Choice | The consumer group Choice is calling for reform of rules in the tenancy market, after finding that renters are force-marched into privacy-invasive tenancy apps, charged for having intimate personal data collected and stored, and subjected t... |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Bunnings and Kmart facial recognition probe set to finish by July | An investigation by Australia's privacy watchdog into Kmart's and Bunnings' use of facial recognition technology is likely to be completed by the end of June.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) also revealed it is ... |
| Nov 25, 2022 | Why the big supermarkets still aren’t delivering groceries in 60 minutes | Source: AAP/Jono Searle.
From the food replicator in Star Trek to Dumbledore summoning food in Hogwarts’ banquet hall, we love the idea of instant food on demand.
This week, Australian supermarket giant Coles appealed to that love by announ... |
| Jul 29, 2022 | Great Wrap raises $24 million as it looks to knock petroleum plastics off the shelves with its biodegradable stretch wrap | Great Wrap founders Julia and Jordy Kay. Source: Supplied.
Victorian-based and founded materials science company Great Wrap has raised $24 million in capital to ‘completely knock petroleum plastic off the supermarket shelf’ with its biodegr... |
| Jul 22, 2022 | Hyper-collection: How Bunnings, eBay and Netflix are contributing to the mass surveillance of Australians | Source: Shutterstock.
You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that st... |
| Jun 28, 2022 | Australian retailers named in facial recognition complaint | Three of Australia's biggest retail chains have been referred to the privacy regulator for recommended enforcement action by a major consumer group which has said they use "unreasonably intrusive" facial recognition technology on ... |
| Jan 3, 2022 | This New Year, Why Not Resolve To Ditch Your Dodgy Old Passwords? | password. Image source: Shutterstock |
| Jan 3, 2022 | This New Year, Why Not Resolve To Ditch Your Dodgy Old Passwords? | password. Image source: Shutterstock
Most of the classic New Year resolutions revolve around improving your health and lifestyle. But this year, why not consider cleaning up your passwords too?
We all know the habits to avoid, yet so many o... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | The Dollarmites are officially dead, the Commonwealth Bank has confirmed, as states turn on the school banking program | (Commonwealth Bank)
Commonwealth Bank has announced the end of its immensely popular and heavily criticised Dollarmites scheme.
The school-based program allowed young students to open their first savings accounts.
But New South Wales’ recen... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | This Aussie startup removes the awkwardness from hair loss and sexual health consults with a digital-only men’s health delivery service | Image: Getty
While there’s no shortage of treatments for male conditions like premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction and hair loss, there are plenty of perceived barriers to accessing them. Many traditional treatments are seen as overp... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Bankwest tries to bed down relationship between online opinion and spend | The race by major financial institutions to snare high-spending young credit card and account holders has a new twist, with CBA subsidiary Bankwest pondering whether the fake infested ‘opinion economy’ actually influences online purchasing ... |
| Nov 24, 2017 | Could robots help Amazon beat AusPost's slow delivery problem? | Amazon's launch in Australia is likely to put fresh scrutiny on the speed of Australia Post’s own deliveries. To that end, Australia Post is trialling the use of robots to deliver parcels more promptly.
Research finds that consumer trust in... |
| Dec 19, 2016 | How to pick the right NBN plan for you and your business | As the National Broadband Network (NBN) roll out continues, those privileged to have access to the network will be hunting for bargains when it comes to choosing a broadband plan.
Currently there are large number of broadband plans from 69 ... |
| Dec 16, 2016 | Why site-blocking is not the solution to illegal downloading despite the Federal Court’s ruling | The Australian Federal Court ruled [on Thursday] that TPG, Optus, Telstra and other internet service providers (ISPs) must take “reasonable steps” to stop customers accessing file-sharing websites The Pirate Bay, IsoHunt, TorrentHound and T... |
| Nov 8, 2016 | Adobe to add GST for Aussie SaaS users from December | Australian subscribers to Adobe's software-as-a-service offerings like Creative Cloud will be charged the national goods and services tax (GST) from December 1, the company said today.
The move follows the introduction of new laws in May th... |
| Sep 14, 2016 | Govt denies plans to block retail sites that don't pay GST | The federal government has denied the tax office intends to use a legislative loophole that would allow it to block access to overseas websites that don't collect the goods and services tax on products sold in Australia.
It followed a repor... |
| Mar 17, 2016 | Retail outlook: Big retailers feel the pressure of new challengers – including Aldi | Source: AAP/Dan Peled
By Shumi Akhtar, University of Sydney and Farida Akhtar, Curtin University
Dominant retail giants Wesfarmers – owner of Coles supermarkets – and Woolworths hold a 70% of market share of Australia’s fresh food grocery m... |
| Jan 12, 2016 | Why Italy Wants to Ban This Jet-Black Bread | Everybody knows that the ingredients that go into a loaf of bread aren't exactly the healthiest.
Refined sugar and preservatives are basically accepted as necessary evils at this point, given the huge demand for spongy, soft, ever-fresh bre... |
| Oct 20, 2015 | When Uber is legal the taxi industry will have nowhere to hide | In the latest instalment of Uber versus the taxi industry, the Taxi Industry Forum of WA has conceded the sector could have done better. Responding to a Western Australian Government green paper into the “on demand” transport industry, it h... |
| Jul 27, 2015 | TV shifts from hero to zero, but even Netflix can’t kill pirating | Analyst firm UBS this week placed a halt on any growth by the Australian television networks in 2016.
Instead of the previous forecast 2% growth, UBS is now predicting zero growth in the TV market. The long-term projection was also adjusted... |
| Jun 1, 2015 | Aldi’s risky move to woo cashed-up shoppers | While Aldi’s launch of their new “trial” stores may seem to be an attempt to capture middle income shoppers, it may end in disaster.
Aldi’s four new trial stores located in Queensland, NSW, ACT and Victoria, will offer improved lighting, la... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | How much will Australia’s Dallas Buyers Club pirates have to pay? | Nearly 5000 Australians are expected to receive letters in the near future asking them some pointed questions about their online downloading habits, specifically relating to the film Dallas Buyers Club.
What might these letters contain? Wil... |
| Apr 6, 2015 | Amazon’s dashing vision of the future of shopping: Think fast, Think less, Buy more | Amazon’s announcement for its new vision of shopping, the Dash Button, was so bizarre, that people thought it was an early April Fool’s joke. The premise is simple. Push a button on a small gadget labelled “Tide” (a US washing powder), conv... |
| Feb 25, 2015 | Aussie Telecoms Minister Receives Downloading Warning Notice | After years of complaints from mainly Hollywood-affiliated companies and anti-piracy groups, Australia is now having to deal with its online piracy issues.
Faced with deadlock the government ordered ISPs and entertainment companies to find ... |
| Dec 9, 2014 | Aussie Pirates Face Site Blocking, But No Disconnections | For many years Australia has been struggling with a reputation for being a nation of file-sharing pirates and throughout the summer the most serious debate thus far consumed the nation.
Leading the charge were rightsholders who tabled deman... |
| Aug 25, 2014 | How much do we really know about privacy on Facebook? | The recent furore about the Facebook Messenger app has unearthed an interesting question: how far are we willing to allow our privacy to be pushed for our social connections? In the case of the Facebook Messenger app, the answer appears to ... |
| Mar 25, 2014 | How can you save money in Australia’s airline wars? | Price is the most important thing when choosing a domestic flight, according to a recent survey by wotif.com.
But travelling for business can cost a pretty penny over the course of a year. Here’re a few ways to cut back on domestic flight c... |
| Dec 12, 2013 | Gordon Renouf founder of Otter | Gordon Renouf is the co-founder of consumer information services Otter and Checking it Twice, both provided under the umbrella of social enterprise start-up Ethical Consumers Australia. ECA works for a fairer and more sustainable world by d... |
| Dec 3, 2013 | Why GST on imports under $1000 won’t make a scrap of difference | I really had to check the publication date of the story I was reading in The Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks ago.
Yet again, retail mogul Solomon Lew was urging the government to lower the $1000 threshold upon which GST can be charged to ... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Australian Parliament urges citizens to bypass geo-locks on software | reader comments 136 with 93 posters participating
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| Nov 20, 2007 | Online vs store shopping: Which is cheaper? | The prevailing view seems to be that online shopping is usually the most cost effective way to shop, but is it supported by the facts? Consumer advocate Choice has got together a bundle of 10 products and compared their online and bricks-an... |
| Mar 9, 2007 | Cheap TV advertising… Digital camera sales fall… Webcam top picks… Mobile data is hot | A new way to make TV advertising on the cheap
Television advertising is expensive. Too expensive for most SMEs, but it reaches mass audiences in a way that the internet and mobile advertising can’t. Los Angeles-based Spot Runner offers a so... |
| Mar 6, 2007 | Wiki wonders… Fingering time bandits… Problem solving… Coffee makers | Working the wiki
Teamwork in business increasingly means working with a wiki, reports The Age. Wiki (Hawaiian for quick) is a sophisticated intranet that enables everybody working on a project to collaborate on projects and documents. IBM s... |
| Surveillance tech Auror under lens after Greens Senator calls for “urgent review” | Source: Unsplash/Matthew Henry
Greens Senator David Shoebridge has called for Parliament to urgently review the widespread use of retail surveillance technology following a Crikey investigation.
Last week, Crikey reported on Auror, a little... |
| A look at Tesla Powerwall ownership after 1 year as second generation is coming: 92% savings on utility bill | We reported on Nick Pfitzner just over a year ago when he became one of the first people to have a Tesla Powerwall in Australia. After now over a year of ownership, Nick shared his experience just as a lot more people are considering instal... |
