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Web 2.0 goes mainstream in Australian enterprises
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news

Category: Enterprise

2009-10-07 00:20:48

A survey of Asia Pacific enterprises has found that Web 2.0 tools are becoming increasingly commonplace, with business people rather than technology leaders driving demand, and only one in ten enterprises reporting no plans to travel the Web 2.0 route.


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British High Court allows injunction by Twitter
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-10-04 21:48:23
A legal precedent has been set in the UK, allowing the service of a High Court injunction via Twitter. The case concerns copyright infringement associated with the impersonation of a semi-public figure.


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Drew Carey bids $US100,000 for @Drew
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-10-04 19:12:39
Yesterday Drew Carey offered to donate $US100,000 in support of cancer research to acquire @Drew.


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Twitter gets telephony
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-09-17 14:20:44
IP phone service provider Jajah has introduced a Twitter-based telephone option. Now in beta, Jajah@call will let Jajah users with Twitter accounts make free phone calls to other Twitter subscribers.


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Porn spam to social networks rising rapidly
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-09-15 22:58:15
The adult industry has tapped into the increasing popularity of social networks, with a rapid rise in porn spam now bombarding sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and their subscribers, with everything from provocative images to hidden malware.


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Microsoft’s Ballmer goes ballistic over iPhone
Written By: David Swan
Section: Information technology news

Category: Mobiles

2009-09-13 23:19:53
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is well known for his wild outbursts and tirades, but just how crazy did he go at today's conference when he spotted one of his employees with an iPhone?


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Joe Hockey is a Gen-Y TwitterHead! Is that privileged?
Written By: James Riley
Section: The Big House

Category: Australian Government ICT Blog

2009-09-10 06:12:47
With shadow treasurer Joe Hockey doing his best to impersonate a Gen-Y TwitterHead during Question Time in the past couple of days – all slouch and no eye contact – its as good a time as any to look at social media policy.


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Microsoft Tech-Ed like Vista - death by a thousand cuts - says one attendee
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Information technology news

Category: Education and Training

2009-09-10 00:27:37

Microsoft Tech-Ed Australia 2009 is underway on the sunny Gold Coast, awash with a sea of HP netbooks given to every paying attendee. Yet not all of the fully sold-out crowd think the gift is so great. One participant is tweeting discontent about budget cuts under the alias teched09sucks.


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AAPT claims first for 'all-night' broadband service
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Market News

2009-09-08 23:40:10
AAPT is touting a first for the residential broadband market with the launch today of its 12-hour, off-peak, unlimited downloads service which it says is an evolution of its first unlimited download offer released to the Australian market in May this year.


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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Facebook?
Written By: David Swan
Section: Technology Lifestyle

Category: Mobile Apps.

2009-09-07 00:47:24
Facebook... Is there anything it can't do? Two girls were rescued from an Adelaide drain last night after alerting friends through their saviour, Facebook.



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Google UFO logo mystery deepens
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2009-09-06 04:13:50
What the heck is happening at Google? With UFO sightings on the search home page and 'unexplained phenomenon' the most searched for phrase this weekend, speculation about an alien abduction is mounting.


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Microsoft to add Bing Ping thing
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2009-09-04 15:09:00
Microsoft's new search engine will be getting a social media twist when the new Bing & Ping service launches. Bing & Ping will let users immediately share their search results via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter. 


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ACT! 2010 goes social
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Software

2009-09-02 00:37:51
ACT! by Sage 2010 hooks into social networking services. It also sports user interface improvements.


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Social networks pose security risks for enterprises
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news

Category: Security

2009-09-01 20:41:12
Employees accessing social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter while at work pose a problem for their bosses as they grapple with the dilemma of allowing them to use Web 2.0 tools responsibly, without sacrificing their business security and regulatory compliance requirements.
 


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Social web leads to company boycotts
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2009-08-31 21:45:08
Online grumbling may be a more effective way of hurting an organisation that you suspected. A new survey shows that nearly a quarter of online Australians have boycotted an organisation after reading such comments.


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Telstra trials tool to mine consumer Tweets
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news

Category: Telecoms

2009-08-25 21:17:51

Telecommunications giant Telstra is understood to be trialling an in-the-cloud service that will allow it to monitor comments made about the company and its services on social network sites.

 


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Geolocation coming to Twitter
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-08-20 20:01:19
A new Twitter feature will allow an exact geographical location to be associated with a tweet.


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Twitter controls botnets
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2009-08-19 22:05:29
Some of the latest botnets are using carefully crafted tweets as a command-and-control mechanism.


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Twitter followers can (sometimes) be bought
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2009-08-18 09:25:21

Some people are developing fascinating ways to corrupt the entire social networking paradigm; conversely, there are others who actually 'get it.'


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Dell tweets to SME followers
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2009-08-17 19:44:57
Dell's trying to tempt SME buyers into following it on Twitter with the promise of exclusive offers.
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