Tag: "Australia"
Australia and the Social Web
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As Australian’s we spend more time on social media sites than any other country in the world – at around 8 hours per month for the average user. But what sort of social networking activities are we getting involved in and to what extent? Australian social media figures: – Approximately 5 million Australian users of [...]
iPhone 4 reception issue [VIDEO]
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Steve Jobs has replied to the iPhone 4 reception issue with: ‘There is no issue. Stay tuned’ We can only speculate what this may mean, probably a software update to fix the issue. Hopefully the issue is fully resolved by the time iPhone 4 units are shipped to Australia. The below video shows how the [...]
Yahoo Australia buys Sports Tipping Site OzTips
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Yahoo!7 – the Australian arm of Yahoo has acquired a Australian sports site OzTips.com OzTips is Australia’s largest online sports tipping sites which allows users to create private tipping competitions between friends / colleagues/ family etc. This now doubles the audience Yahoo!7 sports has. Yahoo!7 is purchasing OzTips from the parent company NextGen.Net Pty No [...]
Twitter creates Official World Cup 2010 page
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Twitter has created an official page supporting the Soccer / Football 2010 World Cup. The purpose of this initiative it to gather all the football related tweets across Twitter and group them accordingly into teams, matches, players and so on. You will be able to see all the fixtures, live scores, trending topics and updates [...]
Social Media stats in Australia- Facebook, Blogger, MySpace
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On a per capital basis Australia has one of the highest uptakes of social media in the world. Out of our population of 21 million, 14 million Australians are internet users. The most popular social media sites in Australia are: Facebook, Blogger and MySpace. Facebook has 9.2 million Australian users which is almost 66% of [...]
The iPad Gets its Own Clothing Line
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Australian clothing label iClothing has designed a specific line for the iPad. A nice little black number for the girls and mens tees have been designed with a pocket in the front to help carry and store your flash new iPad. The mens tees are currently on sale for $44.95 and the girls black iDress [...]
National Cyber-Security Awareness Week in Australia
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It is National Cyber-Security Awareness Week in Australia, June 6-11 – 2010. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has asked Facebook to upgrade their user interface with a button where users can immediately report online crime to the police with a single click. This initiative is run by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital [...]
Foursquare specials do attract customers in Sydney and Australia
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We have seen the success of retailers and restaurants in the US using Foursquare as a marketing tool, but in Australia we have not seen all that much action yet. However, I noticed Wagamama in Sydney CBD has been one of the earlier businesses in Australia to use Foursquare as a marketing tool. The have [...]
Tourism Australia Using Social Media in New Campaign
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Social meda is playing a big part in Tourism Australia’s latest new global advertising campaign that launched today. The new campaign features a social site which encourages Australians to upload any images and stories that they may have from around Australia. Each image is then placed on a Google map of Australia giving a very interesting [...]
iPad up to 2 million sales in 2 months
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Apple has now sold more than 2 million iPad since it’s launch on April 3. A vast majority of these were sold in the USA but countries such as Australia, UK, France, Japan, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland are also selling lots of units. So far the 3G unit has been more popular [...]
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 [...]
LinkedIn is Maturing
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LinkedIn is known as the Facebook for professionals. B2B proffessionals from around the world have been engaging on LinkedIn to help meet new contacts, learn and teach in their own professions and most importantly increase sales leads. The below infographic shows the state of where LinkedIn is currently at with a breakdown of demographics, professions and geolocations of current LinkedIn users. With 1.2 [...]
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 [...]
My name is David Cowling and I am the Founder and Chief Editor of Social Media News AUS and I also run my own 
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