Category: News

Julian Assange wins Walkley Award

David Cowling | November 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder has won the Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism. This is a significant prize for Journalists and Julian Assange released the following acceptance speech, whilst still being under house arrest. You can watch the video here on the SBS website: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1608279/WikiLeaks-Assange-awarded-at-Walkleys Walkley Twitter Update:

NBN Co opens Melbourne Op Centre

David Cowling | November 28, 2011 | Comments (0)

NBN Co has now opened their Melbourne Operations Centre as part of their national broadband rollout. The centre at Docklands, Melbourne will be the headquarters for managing the day to day operations of Australia’s broadband network, and is expected to create 900 jobs in Victoria by the end of 2012. The centre cost about $32 [...]

Australia posts 80 Tweets a second

David Cowling | November 21, 2011 | Comments (0)

According to a National research study by University of Technology Sydney (UTS), on average Australian’s send out around 80 tweets per second, or 5000 Tweets a minute on average – which equates to about 234 million tweets a month. Dr Suresh Sood from UTS undertook the study and has a number of other interesting facts, [...]

Amazon working towards Smartphone

David Cowling | November 18, 2011 | Comments (0)

According to CitiGroup, Amazon.com is looking to compliment their tablet lineup with their own smartphone devices. The phone is expected to be a mid-range device and use a Texas Instruments processor and internal chips from Qualcomm according to Mark Mahaney, a CitiGroup analyst. The total component list is not expected to exceed $100USD. The move [...]

Telstra to spend $100 million on Video

David Cowling | November 18, 2011 | Comments (0)

Telstra has announced plans that over 4 years it plans to spend $100 million to enhance their video capabilities. David Thodey, Telstra CEO told investors it was in Telstra’s interest to differentiate themselves against other carriers and provide additional, unique services to customers. An updated Telstra network with better support for video will entice content [...]