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| Aug 28, 2019 | The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre secures $8.9 million in funding and a home in Adelaide | The Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre will be established at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct in Adelaide later this year.
The $8.9million centre will support startups, scale-ups and existing businesses to launch new products and se... |
| Nov 15, 2017 | Clique plans to invest $10 million in the Australian market | Clique, a voice API technology company, launched its operations in Australia, with plans to invest over $10 million in the Australian market in the next five years. |
| Oct 15, 2009 | Australian ABC Promises To Stay Free; Mocks Murdoch And Paywalls As 'Old Empire' Thinking | One of the key points we’ve raised in the past about the futility of newspapers putting up paywalls is that doing so would only open up a huge opportunity for other, smarter journalism organizations to take their market share by remaining f... |
| Oct 1, 2009 | And You Thought Your Job Was Stressful: France Telecom Employees Keep Committing Suicide | People commit suicide. It happens. But, when a company has had 24 employees commit suicide in 18 months, with many blaming stress from the company as a reason, it makes you pay attention. Apparently, that’s the situation at France Telecom, ... |
| Aug 19, 2009 | Australia Explores Whether Genes Should Be Patentable | Via Glyn Moody we found out that Australia is discussing whether or not gene patents should be allowed. As you may recall, such patents have been allowed in the US for years, but are finally about to be tested in court for the first time. O... |
| Jul 14, 2009 | Are the experts always the ones to go to for advice? | Life rewards expertise. Judges earn more than factory workers (mostly), society respects experts (we award them AO’s and AM’s simply for doing their job) and it appears to make sense to seek out experts to solve your problems – who wants to... |
| Apr 7, 2009 | That Whining Sound You Hear Is The Death Wheeze Of Newspapers | The newspaper industry is making a lot of noise these days about the Web “stealing” its content and destroying its business. Invariably, the newsmen point their ink-stained fingers at blogs, which are nothing more than “parasites”, or at Go... |
| Apr 6, 2009 | Associated Press declares war on (parts of) the Internet (again) | The Associated Press made waves today with its announcement of an “initiative to protect [the news] industry’s content.” This initiative will apparently have two major components: Legal action by the AP against web sites that illegally repr... |
| Oct 27, 2008 | Tech Roundup: Apple U., Handset Freefall, ZeroG Funding, Tech Firms Finance, More | Handset companies ready for freefall -- Sales for mobile phones next year could fall between four and 27 percent compared to this year, warn analysts. If that happened, it would end an almost 15 year growth streak broken only by a four perc... |
| Oct 17, 2008 | China now recording all internet cafe customers | So much for the new, friendly China. Apparently the “Great Firewall of China” has been replaced, following a brief interval during the Olympics when internet restrictions were eased. Now the bricks are being re-laid, and with fewer gaps to ... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Australia Considers Overhauling Patent Laws After Realizing Current System Is Harming Innovation | TIIP points us to the news that the Australian government is considering an overhaul of that country’s patent system after being presented with research showing how much the system was actually holding back innovation in that country. Speci... |
| Jul 1, 2008 | Australian Drug Mafia to Sell Pirated DVDs? | When you get in any sort of reporting, you start to see the same sort of stories crop up. We’ve been writing for almost 3½ years, and even in that short time, and in as narrow a field as I keep an eye on, we see the same things crop up. In... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Is It That Difficult To Understand The Difference Between Public Data And Private Data? | Just a little while after some folks in Pittsburgh, PA sued Google over its Street View offering, it appears that Google is getting ready to launch a similar offering in Australia. However, rather than celebrate a rather useful service, the... |
| Apr 11, 2008 | Google Director With Odd Business Practices Outed | The Australian Newspaper (part of the News Corp empire) has outed the strange business practices of Mark Tucker, Google Australia’s only Australian director as part of a piece on Google Street View and privacy.
According to Australian Secur... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Australian Police: Cracking Down On Piracy… Except When The Police Are The Pirates | Just days after Australian police participated in a headline generating raid to stop music piracy, an audit of police computers not only found DVD piracy is rife throughout many police department computers, but the police have decided not t... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | Australian Police Caught Pirating Movies | According to The Australian, during an audit of computer systems by the South Australian police force’s IT branch, police computers belonging to hundreds of police officers were found to contain movies.
The origin of these movies is not cle... |
| Mar 4, 2008 | Shark deterrent! (Caution: does not work in belly of shark) | If you’re a surfer in, say, Australia, you may have considered investing in such sharky countermeasures as a Shark Shield or chain mail. Neither is perfect as the latter tends to make you sink, and the former apparently causes the occasiona... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Has Facebook peaked? | The surging growth of Facebook appears to have come to a halt, with the online social network losing market share in Australia and Britain in January 2008.
The Australian reports that Facebook’s share of the local social network market as m... |
| Jan 21, 2008 | Murdoch, Packer To Buy Out Consolidated Media Holdings | Lachlan Murdoch, the son of media giant Rupert Murdoch, is said to be offering $2 billion+ AUD ($1.76 billion) today to acquire Consolidated Media Holdings, one of Australia’s largest media companies and part owners of key online properties... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Murdoch To Turn WSJ Into Quasi Reuters/ AP | The News Corp owned The Australian newspaper is to start syndicating content from the Wall Street Journal complete with WSJ branding.
According to The Guardian, the deal comes before the finalization of the News Corp takeover of Dow Jones, ... |
| May 16, 2007 | Get your Skype at Wal-Mart… Gen-X, Gen-Y, Gen-hype… Is brand dead?… Eco-gender product packaging | Get your Skype at Wal-Mart
One way to reach people who are not aware of the benefits of the internet is to market yourself offline.
Wal-Mart is now offering Skype-certified hardware in the internet and voice communications sections of 1800 ... |
| Feb 2, 2007 | Does My Butt Look Big In This Pentium? | The concept of trademark is often misunderstood (and often abused, too). It’s not intended to give a holder complete control over a word or mark, rather it’s intended to prevent confusion in the marketplace — so, for instance, I couldn’t st... |
| Jan 26, 2007 | Wasn't Sarbanes-Oxley Supposed To Stop Your Execs From Setting Up Fake Companies For Financing Vacation Homes? | Whenever people point out the problems with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations, someone usually chimes in to say they’re necessary to stop “Enron-type” situations. The thing is, people looking to create scams in companies will always figure out way... |
| Nov 15, 2006 | All That Work Towards The $100 Computer And The Market Beats Them To The Punch | The story we’ve been hearing for ages about the $100 computer is back in the news again today with the story that Rupert Murdoch is tossing some pocket change at the project which still has had some trouble getting off the ground. Murdoch t... |
| Apr 14, 2005 | Taking Suicide Info Offline Could Increase Suicides | It seems to happen often enough that knee-jerk reactions that involving banning things tends to have the opposite effect of what those calling for the ban expect. The latest suggested example of this, is that some are predicting that a ban ... |
| Dec 1, 2004 | Speed Cameras Still Don't Work | Speed camera watchdog Bob Dole writes “Remember the UK lady given a speed camera ticket for driving 480MPH? Or the person in Australia fined for driving 30MPH more than her car was capable? The government down under in embarrassment had to ... |
| Aug 5, 2004 | Forget Drugs, Now Kids Are Stealing To Support Their Mobile Phone Habit | We’ve had plenty of stories in the past about how stealing mobile phones was a popular crime, but how about stealing other stuff to pay for mobile phone service? A group of kids in Australia went around on a crime spree that netted approxim... |
| May 19, 2004 | The Next Portal Wars? | It seems that, these days, everyone wants a piece of the “paid search” market. It’s the big thing, after all. Still, as I read about how Telstra, down in Australia, is getting ready to “enter the market” by spending millions of dollars adve... |
| Apr 19, 2004 | Mobile Phones Still Hot Items For Thieves | Many places have problems with mobile phone theft, and everyone keeps trying to come up with technology solutions that turn a stolen phone into a worthless paperweight. However, it appears those efforts aren’t working in Australia where pho... |
| Oct 8, 2002 | Russians To Put Reality TV In Space | A Russian TV station is creating a reality TV show where contestants will compete to get sent up into space to the International Space Station. Of course, it seems they basically took the idea that MTV had when they wanted to film pop-star ... |
| May 14, 2002 | Robot Companions For The Elderly | In addition to the story that Tamagotchi-like devices might help the elderly remember to take their medicine, here’s a report that robotic pets can give “joy and relief” to nursing home clients. Not that I have anything against this technol... |