Google To Tackle Facebook With Their New Google+ With everything electronic turning Facebook friendly, it's clear that the social networking leviathan is changing the way people communicate and interact. With social networking becomming a popular avenue of information, Google are getting ready to fight back with their social networking child, Google+.
LiveScribe Gets More Social With Budget Smartpen Livescribe has launched a budget version of its smartpen that will also make handwritten notes and recorded audio easy to share as pencasts via social networks and email.
Business Demand To Push WiFi Growth To 63% The WiFi equipment market, which includes routers, gateways, wireless controller and NICs such as PCI adaptors, PC cards, USB adapters and access points, will see significant growth fuelled by demand from the enterprise sector.
iPhones, Lara Bingle 2010 Most Binged Last week we had Google’s top 10 searched items and now Bing.com.au has released what Australians have been searching for on their most wanted lists, which includes Justin Bieber, Masterchef and the iPad.
Fast Transfer And Storage Arrives In Oz Buffalo, the leading name in Japanese storage, networking and multimedia solutions, is ramping up its Australian presence off the back of its new ultra fast USB 3.0 hard drive range.
Telco In Federal Court Over Do Not Call VoIP telco gotalk is in trouble again, this time with the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which has taken the company to court over breaches of the Do Not Call Register.
Telstra Joins Online Scam Battle Telstra has joined the battle against online scams, offering its safety advice to consumers for the Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce's 2010 Fraud Week Campaign, Online Offensive: Fighting Fraud Online.
$70 Million Lost To Online Scams Nearly $70 million worth of losses through scams were reported to the ACCC in 2009, according to the latest scam activity report.
TVS Launches Free-To-Air Digital Channel Sydney's free-to-air station TVS is Australia's first community channel to begin simulcasting. It can be seen on Digital Channel 44.
Digital TV To Get Parental Lock Standard The ACMA is developing a technical standard that will make a parental lock a required feature for digital TV receivers. The parental lock will allow parents to control access to programs based on their classification.
Ten Tips For Twitter Safety From AVG In light of the phishing security breach on Twitter last week in which users were directed to a fake Twitter login page in an attempt to steal passwords, AVG has compiled a list of tips to help Aussies protect themselves online.
Twitter Averaging 50 Million Tweets A Day 50 million Twitter posts are being made every day, according to a blog post made by Mr Kevin Weil, head of analytics at Twitter.
Valentine Scammers Out In Force The ACCC has issued a warning to lonely hearts looking for love online after recording a 30 per cent increase in the number of people reporting dating and romance scams.
BlackBerry Tracks Your Fitness A slew of free apps designed to help BlackBerry owners keep fit and healthy are now available on BlackBerry App World.
Australian Government Jumps On Twitter The Australian Communications and Media Authority today announced that it will start using social media and networking to try to engage with Australians. It has also hired former Executive Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald Tom Burton to drive the strategy.
Security Company Warns Of New Trojan F-Secure warns of a new trojan horse virus that disguises itself as Windows software, leaving users unaware that they are being scammed.
Tiger Woods Brand Image Takes A Dive Equity in the Tiger Woods brand has plunged amid the media circus following the golfing star’s extramarital affairs.
G-Star Defeats Counterfeiters Clothing manufacturer G-Star has won its court case against Australian retailer Urban Culture for selling counterfeit G-Star clothing.
Facebook Pays $9.5 Million To Settle Lawsuit After a class action lawsuit alleging privacy violations, Facebook has terminated its Beacon program. Additionally, the company has agreed to pay $US9.5 million into a non-profit fund set up to protect online privacy, safety and security.
EBay Gets New Competitors Web start-ups are moving in on eBay's turf, making buying and selling considerably easier than the auction giant, The Wall Street Journal said today.
Online Booming Despite Downturn Online is continuing to grow in Australia with web sites like SmartHouse reporting record growth. Australian online advertising has continued to defy market conditions, racking up more than A$1.7 billion for calendar 2008 – representing an increase of $364.25 million or 27 percent year-on-year.
Poms Mock Gerry Harvey Over Online Attitude A UK investor web site has slammed Gerry Harvey over his attitude to online however ChannelNews can reveal that the retailer is set to roll out a new online operation in the New Year and is currently involved in development of a major online operation.
Poms Mock Gerry Harvey Over Online Attitude A UK investor web site has slammed Gerry Harvey over his attitude to online however ChannelNews can reveal that the retailer is set to roll out a new online operation in the New Year and is currently involved in development of a major online operation.
Cheap Facebook Shares For Sale Facebook directors are bailing on the social network group and the prices they are taking for their shares is way under the value placed on the shares when Microsoft bought into the Company 6 months ago.
EzyDVD Acquires Reeltime To Take On Bigpond EzyDVD, Australia’s has confirmed that it will be launching a movie download service, EzyDownload, to directly challenge Bigpond’s similar service.
Comment: Is Online Content Working? Recently, the entertainment and technology media have been abuzz over the implications of the significant announcement by Apple that iTunes would now offer day and date releases of movie titles in conjunction with their regular release on DVD. The deal involves most of the major studios in Hollywood, and marks the first time that a single online or broadband-enabled source of paid movie content has had both broad studio support as well as day and date releases.
New Google Search Engine Goes Live Google Australia today announced the launch of gDay, a new beta search technology that will search web pages 24 hours before they are created.
Sony Goes On A Blu-ray Bender Sales To Hit $132M Sony is rubbing their hands in glee with the releases of data that forcasts Blu-ray hardware sales will reach 57.4 annually between now and 2012 when it is expected that broadband speeds will have improved to allow for the facilitation on fast online downloads.
SmartHouse Hacking Case Takes A New Turn SmartHouse is set to call in a Sydney based security Company who specialise in detecting the IP address of hackers. The move follows the detection of changes to code and the accessing of a proprietary 4Square Media content engine by unknown individuals. We have also identified one of the journalists who gave information to Media Watch in an effort to discredit SmartHouse.
Seven To Crank Up IPTV Despite Unwired WiMAX Problems The Seven Network is pushing ahead with its acquisition of Unwired despite a massive move away from WiMAX technology, which is the main technology used by the fledgling broadband carrier.
Seven Media TiVo Customers To Get Access To Rhapsody Seven Media which is set to roll out a new TiVo offering in Australia will next year have access to Rhapsody’s digital music service, following the announcement of a joint venture between RealNetworks and Viacom’s MTV Networks, which will allow Seven Media Tivo customers to access music content via any broadband-connected TiVo device.
Microsoft Shuns Consumers Microsoft seems to have lost interest in the consumer market in Australia. While US nationals have access to Media Centre Electronic Program Guides, Zune MP3 players, home servers and music sites Australians get nothing with the Company preferring to concentrate on the enterprise and SMB market.
Copyright Protect Home Movies Like Hollywood Consumers can now add copyright protection to home made movies. The technology is the same as that used by Hollywood movie makers and on DVD movies sold in stores.
Data Voice & IPTV Battle Ahead For Seven Claims Senior 7 Executive The Seven Network is set to go head to head with Foxtel in a content battle that will see the network deliver content to TiVo set top boxes in the home, mobile phones and over Wi Fi networks, a senior executive of a Seven subsidary has confirmed.
Scientists Unlock Spiderman's Power Next time you look up and see what appears to be Spiderman clinging to a building don't worry you are not seeing things. Scientists believe they have unravelled the secret of Spider-Man's superpowers.
PBL On A Roll Off The Back Of Foxtel Ten Deal An updraft of investor interest swept shares in Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL) up nearly four percent to $17.90 yesterday, as Foxtel and Network Ten inked a digital retransmission agreement.
Microsoft Resorts To Chooks To Gobble Up Its Opposition Microsoft, who have played third fiddle to Google and Yahoo in the search engine market for years, have resorted to a chook game in an effort to beat their rivals, and the move has paid off. The company has suddenly boosted its share of the market and is now set to gobble up itsopposition.
See The Best TV AD In The World Today It wasn’t just a Viagra commercial that got up in the advertising industry equivalent of the Oscars recently. A Dove soap commercial and a TV commercial for sugar laced Coca Cola did too. However the overall winner was a commercial that started life as a viral video on the Internet.
Is This The End Of The CD? Is this the end of the CD? Yet another rock band has chosen to go online only with its latest album. Ash the Irish rock band which is currently touring in the US have said that all of their future music will only be sold online.
Sophie Loren Attacked At Sydney Press Event Italian actress Sophia Loren has been verbally attacked at a Sydney press conference by a comedy show front man who gave the legendary actress no time to answer questions. Looking distressed, she later described Andrew Hansen from the ABC TV Show, The Chaser, as a "terrible person" adding that he was "silly, silly, silly".
Beatles Cleaned Up Case In Court A UK cleaning Company is in deep shit after one of their employes dumped rare images and music tracks of the Beatles that had been put aside by giant music Company EMI to be digitised for electronic retrieval.
