Category: Australia
ACCC suggests product recalls via Social Media
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These-days large companies are finding all news sorts of ways to interact and communicate with their customer base. The Australia Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said 60-70% of Australians now have internet access and issuing product recalls via social media sites such as Twitter, blogs and forums is a good way to reach another [...]
Privacy search engine to launch in Australia
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A new search engine is coming to Australia that focuses on the privacy of user searches – www.Startpage.com/au Startpage is made by a company in the Netherlands called Ixquick and several representative will be coming to Australia in early June to speak with Government officials and privacy advocates. Ixquick CEO Robert Beens commented: ‘The serious [...]
The iPad Finally Launches in Australia
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Well it has been a long time coming. The iPad officially launches in Australia tomorrow and some lucky reviewers have already got their hands on the device. Australian Macworld has covered both the 3G and wi-fi versions and to be honest I can’t wait. I believe the portability of the device will once again put social media [...]
ANZ Debt collector creates fake Facebook profile to lure customers
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An ANZ debt collector has created a fake Facebook profile under the name ‘Max Bourke’ to track down customers with bad credit histories that have not updated their personal and address details. ‘Max Bourke’ was a single guy, who like football, running on the beach and playing poker. ANZ spokesman Stephen Ries has said: ‘This [...]
Australian Federal Police want a Facebook cop
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) are calling for Facebook to employ a law enforcement expert in Australia to overlook the Australian user-base of Facebook. Last month, Nona Belomesoff of Sydney was murdered by a man she allegedly met of Facebook. Several Governments around the world are holding a meeting to discuss the social media site [...]
Communications Minister not happy with Facebook and Google privacy
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The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy – Stephen Conroy has expressed his concern about Google’s recent privacy hitch when their Streetview cars were collecting WiFi data from private homes around Australia. Conroy remarked about Google: ‘They consider that they are the appropriate people to make the decisions about people’s privacy data’. Stephen [...]
Apple Store Bondi opening, get a free T-shirt
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This Saturday the 28th of May the iPad is officially available for purchase in Australia. Also a brand Apple store is opening at Bondi Junction from 8am on the 28th. The first 2,500 visitors will get a free Apple T-shirt. No doubt there will be a huge turnout. Placing an Apple Store in Sydney’s Eastern [...]
Foursquare in Sydney Australia
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Foursquare has over a million registered users globally now. Of these users, what sort of demographic has the highest usage? if you are a business using Foursquare to target customers and see their feedback – what sort of people are you reaching out to? In order the judge the popularity of Foursquare amongst users in [...]
Social Media Club Sydney roundup 24 May
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Tonight i had the pleasure to attend #SMCSYD (Social Media Club Sydney) at the Oxford Art Factory thanks to event organiser Grant Newtown. Speakers of the night were: Cliff Rosenberg – Managing Director LinkedIn Australian & New Zealand Michael Field – Strategy Consultant The night was focussed on how to better used LinkedIn in your [...]
Social Media event for Sustainability, Melbourne 25 May
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On Tuesday the 25th of May there is a Social Media event for continuing and enhancing sustainability of our natural environment. Basically web, tech and digital folks are meeting up to see how they can use social media to promote sustainability of our natural environments in Australia and globally. The event is taking place at [...]
BlackBerry Australia Blockparty
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BlackBerry Australia is hosting a big party in the launch of their new BlackBerry Pearl 3G smartphone on the 17th of June. My first smartphone was actually a BlackBerry pearl and at the time seemed to be way ahead of the competition (well there wasn’t any competition really to BlackBerry a couple years ago). I’d [...]
Yahoo Australia launches entertainment news site
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Yahoo Australia has launched a news service called The Hype that reports on all celebrity and entertainments news around Australia and globally. Yahoo launched a similar service in the US in 2007 called OMG which has been very successful and generating a high readership. The Australian service pulls content from Yahoo!7 Movies, Yahoo!7 Music, Yahoo!7 [...]
Sydney Facebook murder twist
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Police have charged James Dannevig – a 20 year old male for the murder of 18 year old Sydney teenager Nona Belomesoff. It is alleged James Dannevig set up a Facebook account using a fake alias – Jason Green and pretended he was an employee of the NSW Information Rescue and Education Service and lured [...]
Facebook meet turns to murder for Sydney teen
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Police have found the body of 18 year old Leumeah teenager, Nona Belomesoff. Nona met 2 men on Wednesday the 12th of May after chatting on Facebook for a supposed camping outing but instead have been missing ever since. A 20 year old Leumeah man has been charged with murder, refused bail and will appear [...]
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally denies Twitter lies
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This week NSW parliament passed legislation granting same sex couples to officially register their relationships in the state of New South Wales. However some concerned Australians asked NSW Premier Kristina Keneally why she was not present for the vote, via Twitter. Kristina rejected suggesstion she missed the vote because of her strong Christian beliefs/morals in [...]
Belinda Neal Twitter rant
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New South Wales politician Belinda Neal has sparked an angry reaction from fellow Twitter users after she had a rant on Twitter about the Australia Labour Party all leaving the office early on Friday afternoon. Belinda tweeted “The NSW Branch of the ALP has all gone home early. The only person in the office is [...]
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