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| Dec 1, 2020 | It’s 2000 Again: Why The Next Gaming Innovation Cycle Could Follow The Same Path As The Internet | Founder and CEO at Admix. Pioneer of "in-play." Previously ran a hypercasual game studio before they were cool. |
| 2020 | 4 High-Potential Sectors for AI and ML Startup Success | Today, the explosion of development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology has created a market for which it appears there’s no limit. No matter the industry, if you name a reasonably-sized (or larger) company,... |
| Nov 25, 2019 | MPA & Roadshow-Led Coalition File Major Pirate Site-Blocking Application | Despite a clear decrease in momentum in the UK in recent times, site-blocking remains a favored anti-piracy tool in many countries around the world.
Companies exploiting the Australian market seem convinced that the practice is good for bus... |
| Aug 27, 2019 | Foxtel Obtains First ‘Dynamic’ Injunction Against Torrent, Streaming & Proxy Sites | Section 115a of Australia’s Copyright Act, which provides a mechanism for rightsholders to have ‘pirate’ sites blocked by ISPs, was long campaigned for as an essential tool to fight online infringement.
Since it came into force it has been ... |
| Aug 14, 2019 | TV Distributors Abandon IPTV Blocking Application Down Under | Changes to the law now make it relatively straightforward to have blatant ‘pirate’ sites blocked by ISPs in Australia.
Entertainment industry groups have targeted dozens of sites using the streamlined system, including many of the top torre... |
| Jun 25, 2019 | Over 2,000 harmful apps found on Google Play Store, report | A new study finds that over 2,000 apps on Google Play store are harmful in some way.
Researchers from the University of Sydney and CSIRO’s Data61 have compiled an investigative report on the Google Play store and found that around 2,040 ma... |
| Jun 25, 2019 | В Play Store нашли тысячи опасных приложений-фейков, некоторые из них очень популярны | Александра Кукуть 25 июня 2019, 16:43 В Play Store нашли тысячи опасных приложений-фейков, некоторые из них очень популярны
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| Jun 25, 2019 | You Need To Be Wary Of Copycat Apps In The Play Store, Study Reveals | Android may be the world’s top mobile operating system but its premier app market, the Google Play Store, seems to have a serious problem with popular applications being ripped off and sometimes repurposed as malware, a recently reported st... |
| Jun 12, 2019 | Aussie Blocking Juggernaut Continues With 105 More ‘Pirate’ Domains | Last December, Australia’s Federal Court issued an injunction in favor of Village Roadshow, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount, Columbia, Universal, and Warner, requiring local ISPs to block 181 pirate domains linked to 78 sites.
Soon... |
| Jun 3, 2019 | Netflix Joins Effort to Expand Aussie Pirate Site Blocklist | Copyright holders are increasingly demanding that ISPs should block access to pirate sites in order to protect their business.
This is also the case in Australia, where blocking injunctions were made possible four years ago following amendm... |
| May 30, 2019 | Optus to cut 200 staff in consumer business | Optus will make around 200 staff in its Australian consumer business redundant under a business transformation strategy that is currently being implemented.
The round of cuts, first reported by Computerworld, are part of a broader program o... |
| May 16, 2019 | Aussie Music Industry Wins First Ever Stream-Ripping Site Blocks | The worldwide music industry is making no secret of its disdain for so-called stream-ripping sites.
Utilizing content culled mainly from YouTube but also other streaming platforms, these services convert streams into downloads, allowing use... |
| Apr 3, 2019 | Aussie Music Industry in Court to Demand Stream-Ripping Site Blocks | With the rise of sites of YouTube, anyone can stream videos and songs directly to their browser. It’s convenient, quick, and should generate revenue for the site and copyright holders.
However, many people prefer to have content saved on th... |
| Mar 25, 2019 | Infosec researcher Nik Cubrilovic changes plea on GoGet breach | Australian security researcher Nik Cubrilovic has pleaded guilty to a reduced set of charges related to his role in a data breach at car sharing service GoGet.
Cubrilovic was arrested and charged with accessing customer data and free rides ... |
| Mar 21, 2019 | Human Services finally completes plan for free Centrelink wi-fi after 10 years | The Department of Human Services has completed an almost decade-long project to bring free wi-fi to its extensive network of Centrelink offices around Australia.
The department flicked the switch on the network at the last of its 926 servic... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Woodside's "orange shirts" gain visibility in corporate HQ | Woodside Energy is measuring its ability to move at a “digital pace” in part by the number of “orange shirts” - slang for field workers - that now regularly appear via video in its Perth headquarters.
Executive vice president of exploration... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Reelplay IPTV Service Faces Blocking Action in Australian Court | Hundreds – perhaps thousands – of companies and individuals around the globe provide IPTV services to the public.
It’s a rapidly expanding market but a significant number of providers operate without appropriate licensing, in some cases off... |
| Jan 14, 2019 | Music Groups Waste No Time Using Australia's New Copyright Law To Shut Down Stream Ripping Sites | Late last year, after Australia proposed amending its copyright laws, which included some subtle language changes, the country approved the amendments and we immediately warned that this would be abused, feature-creeped, and otherwise utili... |
| Jan 10, 2019 | New Aussie Blocking Applications Targets 79 ‘Pirate’ Sites Plus 4 Stream-Ripping Platforms | Section 115a of Australia’s Copyright Act allows copyright holders to apply for injunctions to force ISPs to prevent subscribers from accessing ‘pirate’ sites.
The legislation has been used on many occasions, mainly by movie industry player... |
| Dec 20, 2018 | Australian Court Orders ISPs to Block 181 ‘Pirate’ Domains, Including Subtitle Sites | Copyright holders are increasingly demanding that ISPs should block access to pirate sites in order to protect their business.
This is also the case in Australia, where blocking injunctions were made possible three years ago following amend... |
| Aug 2, 2018 | Movie & TV Show Companies Want Subtitle Sites Blocked Down Under | After several successful previous applications, last month Village Roadshow Films and Hollywood partners Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Universal, Warner Bros teamed up with Hong Kong-based Television ... |
| Jul 17, 2018 | Movie & TV Giants Apply For Broadest Ever Piracy Blocking Injunction | As the battle against online piracy continues, entertainment industry companies are persisting with their site-blocking strategy.
There’s some doubt as to whether blockades work but the companies behind them appear happy to commit significa... |
| Jun 18, 2018 | Foxtel Pirate Site Blocking Application Could Be Granted in Record Time | Back in April, pay TV company Foxtel filed the latest in a series of blocking applications, this time targeting more than two dozen domain names facilitating access to 15 torrent and streaming services.
To save on time and costs, Foxtel env... |
| May 2, 2018 | Pirate IPTV Blocking Case is No Slam Dunk Says Federal Court Judge | Last year, Hong Kong-based broadcaster Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) applied for a blocking injunction against several unauthorized IPTV services.
Under the Copyright Act, the broadcaster asked the Federal Court to order ISPs includin... |
| Apr 27, 2018 | Aussie Federal Court Orders ISPs to Block Pirate IPTV Service | After successful applying for ISP blocks against dozens of traditional torrent and streaming portals, Village Roadshow and a coalition of movie studios switched tack last year.
With the threat of pirate subscription IPTV services looming la... |
| Apr 23, 2018 | Alibaba’s future of retail involves QR codes, smart mirrors, and gamified discounts | According to Chinese online retail giant Alibaba, the future of retail technology is rooted in object and facial recognition, QR codes, and gamifying shopper discounts.
These are the technologies the $32 billion retailer is pioneering back ... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | TV Broadcaster Wants App Stores Blocked to Prevent Piracy | After first targeting torrent and regular streaming platforms with blocking injunctions, last year Village Roadshow and studios including Disney, Universal, Warner Bros, Twentieth Century Fox, and Paramount began looking at a new threat.
Th... |
| Apr 16, 2018 | Blocking entire app stores would be the most dramatic anti-piracy act we’ve seen yet | Two media companies are seeking one of the most sweeping legal orders we’ve seen yet from an Australian court, in an effort to reduce the use of paid pirate IPTV services.
The two motions are being brought by a Hong Kong-based TV firm and A... |
| Apr 8, 2018 | Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive | Cyrus Radfar Contributor
Cyrus Radfar is the founding partner at V1 Worldwide.
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Bias in AI: A problem recognized but still unresolved
Will tech companies change the way we manage our health?
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| Feb 27, 2018 | Turnbull signs up to 100Mbps NBN plan | Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has signed up to the 100Mbps speed tier on the national broadband network despite previously arguing that most Australians need only 12Mbps.
In senate estimates overnight the Department of Prime Minister and ... |
| Feb 15, 2018 | Kaltura to Power its Growth across Australia and New Zealand with an Expanded Local Team and Reseller Partnerships | Kaltura’s video solutions are already in use around the world by leading organisations such as SAP, MetLife, Philips, Yale University, Stanford University, Cornell University, and many more. While Kaltura has had a long-established footprin... |
| Jan 11, 2018 | Google revises Aussie recruitment after 457 changes | Google has been forced to “revise its Australian recruitment plans” in response to government changes to the 457 skilled migration visa scheme.
The web giant has urged the government to “fix” the scheme to help it attract overseas nationals... |
| Dec 7, 2017 | Movie & TV Companies Tackle Pirate IPTV in Australia Federal Court | As movie and TV show piracy has migrated from the desktop towards mobile and living room-based devices, copyright holders have found the need to adapt to a new enemy.
Dealing with streaming services is now high on the agenda, with third-par... |
| Dec 1, 2017 | Australian State Wants To Let Tech Companies Ignore Laws And Regulations | Here on Techdirt, we are big fans of technology and innovation — provided, of course, they are not abused. That means we always happy to see ways of promoting research and development. The state of South Australia (SA) has come up with a ra... |
| Nov 6, 2017 | Aussie ‘Pirate’ Blocking Efforts Switch to Premium IPTV | Website blocking has become one of the leading anti-piracy mechanisms in recent years and is particularly prevalent across Europe, where thousands of sites are now off-limits by regular means.
More recently the practice spread to Australia,... |
| Sep 25, 2017 | ASIC appoints new CIO | Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC has appointed Joanne Harper as its permanent chief information officer.
Harper has been acting in the role since former CIO Wendy Bryant departed for the Australian Taxation Office in February after more... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Alan Finkel: Robots won’t replace us because we still need that human touch | The real Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, dancing with a robot. Source: Supplied
By Alan Finkel, Office of the Chief Scientist
By now, you’ve probably been warned that a robot is coming for your job. But rather than repeat the warning, I’ve de... |
| Aug 8, 2017 | Foxtel Targets 128 Torrent & Streaming Domains For Blocking Down Under | In 2015, Australia passed controversial legislation which allows ‘pirate’ sites located on servers overseas to be blocked at the ISP level.
“These offshore sites are not operated by noble spirits fighting for the freedom of the internet, th... |
| May 8, 2017 | The agile working style started in tech but it could work for banks | Is tick-and-flick performance management like going on a diet? A group of academics thinks so, and they’re prescribing sustainable, healthy lifestyle change.
By Massimo Garbuio and Dreu Harrison, University of Sydney
The purpose of the “agi... |
| May 8, 2017 | ABS poaches tax IT exec as new CIO | A tax office IT executive will take charge of leading the online Census and Australia's statistics systems as the new chief information officer of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
The ABS has appointed Steve Hamilton, currently hea... |
| Feb 24, 2017 | Dozens of Pirate Sites Targeted in New Aussie Crackdown | Following a case brought by Roadshow Films, Foxtel, Disney, Paramount, Columbia, and 20th Century Fox, last December more than fifty Internet service providers Down Under were ordered to start barring subscriber access to ‘pirate’ sites.
At... |
| Jan 12, 2017 | Tourism Australia names ex-Microsoft exec as new CIO | Tourism Australia has hired Microsoft’s former local mobility and security lead Jason Flynn to become its new chief information officer, filling a vacancy created by the departure of former IT boss David Rumsey.
The appointment, first repor... |
| Nov 15, 2016 | Aurora Energy CIO quits for start-up land | Aurora Energy’s chief information officer Grant Taylor has resigned from his post after six months to return to the start-up sector.
Taylor’s departure at the Tasmanian state-owned power company, first reported by Computerworld, comes half ... |
| Oct 25, 2016 | Aussie KickassTorrents Blocking Battle Continues, Despite Takedown | Back in April, members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and Australasian collecting society APRA AMCOS teamed up to file the music industry’s first ‘pirate’ site blocking application Down Under.
Filed at the Federal C... |
| Oct 16, 2016 | WhatsApp is secure and OK for politicians to use | |
| Jun 2, 2016 | NSW unis ignoring calls to improve IT | One third of the recommendations the NSW audit office made to the state’s universities about fixing their shaky cyber defences last year have been ignored, according to auditor-general Margaret Crawford.
The government-funded tertiary educa... |
| May 6, 2016 | Australian ISPs Refuse to Pay For Pirate Site Blocking | Website blocking applications are active in many countries around the world and they are often complex beasts, with negotiations drawn out over months and in some cases years.
Legislation passed last year in Australia aimed to formalize the... |
| Mar 16, 2016 | You’d love to live in Miami. Now are you ready to build a business there? | One way to characterize how an entrepreneurship community is developing is to see which side of the equation it needs to pay more attention to: live or work.
All great cities have some version of that mix, a place where the world’s mobile t... |
| Mar 3, 2016 | CBA, Ace Foundation settle over frozen funds in IT bribery scandal | The Commonwealth Bank has reached an out-of-court settlement with the US-based not-for-profit that took legal action over frozen funds in an alleged bribery case involving two former bank IT executives.
Ace Foundation sued CBA in the middle... |
| Feb 21, 2016 | How VR and AR will be training tomorrow’s workforce | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Some scenarios are impossible to realistically re... |
| Jan 25, 2016 | How the Internet of Things is helping to drive the next generational change in mobile | Some of the biggest carriers in Australia, Vodafone, Telstra and even Chinese manufacturer Huawei are preparing for the next generation of mobile phone network, 5G, even though 4G has only just been rolled out.
New mobile generations come a... |
| Jan 17, 2016 | The ‘G’ in 5G: How mobile generations have evolved | Some of the biggest carriers in Australia – Vodafone, Telstra and even Chinese manufacturer Huawei – are preparing for the next generation of mobile phone network, 5G, even though 4G has only just been rolled out.
New mobile generations com... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | Commonwealth Bank Seeks Leading Blockchain Role with Sydney Conference | The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will host a two-day blockchain conference in Sydney next month in an attempt to explore the technology's potential.
According to a Computerworld report
, the bank – which recently partnered with distr... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Creating the right storage environment for private cloud | By Graham Schultz, Managing Director, Tintri ANZ |
| Sep 14, 2015 | Xerox представила микросхему с функцией самоуничтожения по команде | Отдел новостей 14 сентября 2015, 17:09 Xerox представила микросхему с функцией самоуничтожения по команде
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| Aug 20, 2015 | Hockey’s IP inquiry another opportunity likely to be missed | Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey has asked the Productivity Commission to undertake a wide-ranging review of Australia’s intellectual property regime. The review is an opportunity for an increasingly distracted government to set its stamp on... |
| Aug 17, 2015 | A Look At Startup Opportunities In The Container Era | Navin Chaddha Contributor
Navin Chaddha leads Mayfield. The firm invests in early-stage consumer, healthIT and enterprise technology companies and currently has $1.8 billion under management.
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| Aug 10, 2015 | Holding our devices hostage. Can we stay safe against the threat of ransomware? | The possibility of losing all of your files and photos on your computer is a frightening prospect for most people. So much so, that large numbers of users are choosing to pay the criminals holding them to ransom rather than lose their data.... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | There are better ways to combat piracy than blocking websites | The Senate passed controversial anti-piracy legislation, the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Bill 2015, last night. But it’s not so clear whether the legislation will actually achieve its stated ends of reducing piracy, and it mig... |
| Mar 27, 2015 | Your guide to the data retention debate: what it is and why it’s bad | It’s time to clarify what data retention is and the nature of the threat it poses to citizens writes Crikey’s Bernard Keane.
Crikey has been covering data retention for several years, and we’ve written tens of thousands of words in that tim... |
| Mar 26, 2015 | Your guide to the data retention debate: what it is and why it’s bad | It’s time to clarify what data retention is and the nature of the threat it poses to citizens writes Crikey’s Bernard Keane.
Crikey has been covering data retention for several years, and we’ve written tens of thousands of words in that tim... |
| Jan 23, 2015 | China on Microsoft Outlook Hacking: 'Groundless Slander' | Menchie Mendoza, Tech Times 23 January 2015, 10:01 pm
China had been accused of being the reason behind the Microsoft Outlook cyber-attack and had strongly denied the accusation. The information that China was to be blamed for the attack ca... |
| Jan 15, 2015 | Latest EU Country With Legal Challenge To Blanket Data Retention: The Netherlands | Last week we wrote about how a ruling by Europe’s highest court, the EUCJ, that blanket data retention was “invalid,” had received a further boost from an analysis by the European Parliament’s legal services. That, in its turn, made it more... |
| Dec 17, 2014 | Can we please just get on with the National Broadband Network? | Earlier this year, I attended a dinner for about 150 people. The first thing we all did was head for the bar to grab a drink, swamping the staff and setting back the dinner schedule by nearly two hours. We learned that it is better to place... |
| Nov 25, 2014 | Blocking piracy websites is bad for Australia’s digital future | Rumours are flying that the government will introduce legislation before Christmas aimed at blocking certain websites, such as The Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents, as part of a range of efforts to reduce copyright infringement in Australia.... |
| Nov 12, 2014 | UNSW CBA hackathon brings together ‘hipsters, hackers and hustlers’ to solve e-commerce problems | Wikipedia tells us: “A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, ... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Secure Email and Cloud Alternatives to Gmail and Dropbox | Back in June last year, confidential documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that major email and cloud storage providers like Google, Microsoft, and others were part of the NSA’s top secret surveillance program called PRISM. And if th... |
| Oct 20, 2014 | Secure Email and Cloud Alternatives to Gmail and Dropbox | Back in June last year, confidential documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicated that major email and cloud storage providers like Google, Microsoft, and others were part of the NSA's top secret surveillance program called PRISM. And ... |
| Jul 25, 2014 | Australian Government Proposes New Copyright Law: Basically Hollywood's Wishlist | We’ve been covering the discussion around copyright reform down in Australia for a while, and it’s continuing to get worse and worse. As you may recall, after a long and detailed process, involving careful input from a variety of stakeholde... |
| Jul 9, 2014 | Kiwi ISP Offers Service To Get Around Geoblocking As A Standard Feature | One of the most idiotic aspects of the internet these days is geoblocking — the practice of certain websites only being available in certain countries. Nothing seems to get internet users angrier than going to any particular piece of conten... |
| Jun 20, 2014 | Patient group wants J&J probe over pelvic mesh | MassDevice.com On Call | MASSDEVICE ON CALL — The controversy over transvaginal mesh implants is heating up in Florida, with patient advocates calling on authorities to investigate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and its leadership.
The Corporate Action Network is... |
| Jun 19, 2014 | CyberHive’s Darin Andersen Outlines Expanded Plans as iHive Debuts | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
After launching the CyberHive San Diego incubator for local cybersecurity startups early last year, founder Darin Andersen has expanded into adjacent offices to establish what... |
| Jan 28, 2014 | A Dutch Court Unblocked The Pirate Bay in a Win for Net Neutrality | via Fotocommunity
People in the Netherlands can log onto the Pirate Bay again. The two top Dutch ISPs won their two-long year fight to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the providers had to block the BitTorrent tracking site. There are s... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | What Exactly Does the US Government Really Think of Bitcoin? Here’s the Story so Far | With the US Senate setting 18th November as the start date for its committee hearings into bitcoin, it’s time to take a look at some of the more significant events in bitcoin’s short but colorful legal history.
The early timeline featured h... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | Security Concerns Not Slowing Public Cloud Adoption | Ask a CIO what her top concerns are with public cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS), and she’s almost certainly going to list security as her #1 concern. But ask her whether she’s running serious applications in the public cloud, ... |
| Sep 16, 2013 | Google and Samsung soar into list of top 10 Linux contributors | See, sometimes Linus isn't flicking people off.
Athanasios Kasampalis reader comments 67 with 49 posters participating
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| Sep 12, 2013 | Hurry! ISP Needs Volunteers to Have Their BitTorrent Traffic Throttled | At the turn of the last decade almost every Internet user was asking for more bandwidth. As transfers of music and video increased in popularity, having the fattest possible pipe became an almost universal dream.
Over the past few years the... |
| Jun 7, 2013 | Under draft bill, EU wants to raise jail time for hackers, botnet operators | reader comments 27 with 24 posters participating
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On Thursday, a European Parliament committee approved a new draft directive (PDF) that would, among other things, require E... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | Businesses deluded about threat of cyber attack | (MoneyWatch) Do you think you're prepared for a cyberattack? Believe that your business is not really at risk? Well congratulations -- according to consulting firm Deloitte, you're as delusional as 88 percent of the rest of the bu... |
| Jan 25, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Today is another whopper of a news day and something of a Lawfare milestone: the 350th Edition of Today's Headlines and Commentary! Ritika and I will be graciously accepting flowers and gifts.
In leak news, former CIA officer John Kiri... |
| Jan 14, 2013 | Australian Milestone: First Game Released For Adults…In 2013 | As Tim Cushing recently wrote, Australia's Classification Board (whatever the hell that is) decided that this was the year. The year for what, you ask? Well, the year to acknowledge that people over the age of 15 exist within their bor... |
| Dec 11, 2012 | Cheating DeathWatch: ARM Holdings Holds Out | The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we’re taking a slightly different tack – highlighting companies and technologies that Cheated Death. Companies that might hav... |
| Nov 12, 2012 | Apple ends its patent wars against a leading Android vendor | Apple has signed a 10-year patent cross-licensing agreement with Android smartphone-maker HTC.
According to ComputerWorld, the agreement settles all outstanding patent infringement lawsuits between the two companies, with the companies agre... |
| Oct 26, 2012 | Australian Consumer Advocate CHOICE Encourages IP Spoofing To Get Better Prices | I’ll be honest about my viewpoint to start this piece: I hate geo-restrictions, particularly on digital goods. I simply cannot see how they benefit anyone. Customers are blocked or pay different prices for like goods, often times angering t... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Don’t Panic Over Pirate Bay Duo’s Hacking Conference No Show | The very first Hack in the Box (HiTB) conference was held at the the Cititel Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, in 2003. This year the event is back in Malaysia, promising exciting security-related discussion supported by some of the world’s biggest tech... |
| Sep 27, 2012 | Bitcoin exchange Bitfloor attempts comeback after $250,000 heist | reader comments 25 with 17 posters participating
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| Aug 27, 2012 | Dropbox enables two-factor verification in “experimental build” | reader comments 24 with 15 posters participating
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Roughly a month after Dropbox said it would offer two-factor authentication, the cloud-based storage company has quietly do... |
| Aug 21, 2012 | Everyone's Quitting Facebook | On a day when Wall Street darling Apple hit new highs, making it the most valuable company ever (not adjusted for inflation), ex-darling Facebook continues to reach record lows. After its controversial IPO, Mark Zuckerberg has been unable t... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Executive exodus from Facebook: Four senior executives quit in one week | Four senior executives have resigned from Facebook, prompting fears of a post-IPO brain drain from the social media giant.
According to ComputerWorld, Facebook has confirmed that platform partnerships director Ethan Beard, platform marketin... |
| Jul 29, 2012 | Online retailers begin selling Asus Transformer Infinity TF700T Android tablets ahead of official release | At least two online retailers have begun selling Asus’ Transformer Infinity TF700T Android tablets more than a week ahead of its official Australian release, claiming to have stock ready for delivery as of today.
According to ComputerWorld,... |
| Apr 12, 2012 | Amazon APIs: Cloud Standard or Zombie Apocalypse? | FUD is a lot like commodity open source software. It just keeps moving up the stack. A decade ago, the FUD was all about operating systems and database software. Now? It’s migrated up to the cloud stack. FUD may be mobile, but it hasn’t got... |
| Apr 2, 2012 | Australia To Explore Adding Greater Copyright Exceptions | While we noted that the entertainment industry was absolutely freaking out over the possibility of greater copyright exceptions (fair use, fair dealing, etc.) in the UK, it’s been really encouraging to see significant interest in copyright ... |
| Feb 16, 2012 | R18+ games legislation finally hits Federal Parliament | Federal Home Affairs Minister Jason Claire has introduced legislation to create an R18+ classification for computer and video games.
Computerworld reports that the reforms are based on a September 2011 review by the Australian Law Reform Co... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Former Google CIO & EMI Digital COO Guy Explains How File Sharing Is Good For Artists | In April of 2008, EMI hired Doug Merrill away from his Google CIO position to lead the company’s digital efforts. As we noted at the time, this actually seemed like an opportunity for EMI to really embrace what the technology allowed, thoug... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Former Google CIO: LimeWire Pirates Were iTunes’ Best Customers | Yesterday, during his keynote speech at the CA Expo in Sydney, former Google boss Douglas C Merrill said that companies stuck in the past risk becoming irrelevant. He also had some very interesting things to say about pirates.
Merrill, who ... |
| Jun 13, 2011 | Former Obama Advisor Says Wikileaks Is Wonderful For The US Government | While the White House seems to be doing whatever it possibly can to try to file charges against folks involved in Wikileaks, a former Obama adviser is talking up how wonderful Wikileaks has been for the US government, in that it’s helped pe... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | The three ‘goals’ to avoid | Last week I was honoured to sit in a meeting of a team that was assured of success. I say this with disgust though, as the group refused to clearly define what they were trying to achieve, specifically so they couldn’t fail. Sadly, it’s too... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Day Four: AFACT v iiNet BitTorrent Piracy Appeal | As the hearing entered its fourth day, AFACT, representing the Village Roadshow and more than thirty Hollywood studios, and ISP iiNet were back in Federal Court for the appeal in their copyright infringement dispute. Three judges will event... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Day Three: AFACT v iiNet BitTorrent Piracy Appeal | For the third day, AFACT, representing the Village Roadshow and several Hollywood studios, and ISP iiNet were back in Federal Court for the appeal in their long-running copyright infringement dispute. Three judges will be required to decide... |