Tag: "Australia"
Twitter Expected to Open Office in Australia as Executives Fly Out
Twitter Executives are flying out to Australia this week in an attempt to promote the social network down under and gain further support from leading media organisations, sporting bodies, high profile users and technology/ marketing enthusiasts. Mike Brown is the head of international development at Twitter and will be holding a ‘secret Twitter event’ to high light [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – October 2012
Happy Halloween. Now we have that out the way let’s look at the most popular social networking websites in Australia over October 2012. For the past couple of month’s figures have been fairly static across the board, but we are still seeing some networks experiencing strong growth – mainly Instagram and to some degree Pinterest. [...]
Read MoreWindows 8 Launches in Australia [VIDEO]
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At midnight last night, some electronics stores around Australia – namely Harvey Norman started selling Microsoft’s Windows 8 Operating System. I was not there, I was tucked into bed asleep but the people at Gizmodo Australia got this video of Gerry Harvey selling the first copy of Windows 8 in Australia. Do note this video [...]
Read MoreMicrosoft Releases Surface Pricing For Australia
Microsoft Surface Tablets are now available for pre-order via their website. There are going to be 2 models for sale – a 32GB version and a 64GB version. The Australian pricing is as follows: 64 GB with Black Touch Cover AU789.00 incl. GST 32 GB with Black Touch Cover AU679.00 incl. GST 32 GB without [...]
Read MoreTwitter Australia Now Has an Official and Verified Account
It seems there is now an official and verified account for Twitter in Australia. You can follow TwitterAU: https://twitter.com/TwitterAU Maybe we can all use this account for support and to draw attention where we see abuse on Twitter to Australian users. Will be interesting to follow.
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – September 2012
It might be a public holiday here in NSW, but it’s the first of the month and time for us to compile our latest monthly social media statistics. This month we have added aditional checks and verification of stats by comparing the Google data with that from Quantcast and Comscore – 2 independant and leading [...]
Read MoreiPhone 5 Comes to Australia September 21
Apple’s new iPhone 5 will be coming to Australia on September 21. The phone will be made of only aluminum and glass. Width: 7.6 mm Weight: 112 grams Hardware upgrades include a new A6 chip, and much faster Wifi technology. It’s also important to note the camera remains 7 Mega pixels and the dock connector to charge the [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – August 2012
We have compiled our social media stats report for August and now have them to share. Over the month of August we have had a close look at the social networks and general user engagement. Many of the newer players such as Pinterest, Instagram, Google Plus are now getting settled and we are not seeing [...]
Read MoreLiam Walsh appointed to Australian Facebook Chief
Facebook this morning have appointed Liam Walsh as the interim chief to the Australian Facebook operation. Mr Walsh has been the Sales Director for Facebook Australia since mid 2011 and now he takes the reigns from Paul Borrud who resigned earlier in January to spend more time with his family and othert projects. Mr Walsh [...]
Read MoreSocial Media Statistics Australia – July 2012
We have compiled our social media statistics for July and have them to share with you today. There has been some interesting changes recently in terms of social media user numbers. Facebook just announced last Friday Australian time that their social network now has 955 million monthly active users. In addition to this Facebook has [...]
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