Tag: "Internet"
Google fighting to make censorship illegal
It seems Google has had enough of the Chinese and Vietnamese internet filters (amongst other countries) and is look at taking further action. Google is working with the U.S. government to try to make it illegal for countries to censor the Internet using the rules of international trade. Listing broker head of communications, Robert Boorstin, […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media stats in Australia- Facebook, Blogger, MySpace
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 […]
Read More | ShareGoogle says Microsoft is clever, smart and well funded
It is clear as crystal the battle between Google and Microsoft (with Apple in there too) in one of the internets great rivalries. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has made comments on Microsoft’s entrance to the search market saying the software giant is ‘well-funded, smart and clever’. Google holds a high majority of the search market […]
Read More | ShareGoogle Chrome Operating System coming out Q4
The Google Chrome OS is set to be released in the fourth quarter of this year. Google announced nearly a year ago that they were building the Chrome OS. The Chrome OS is an open source operating system designed for netbooks and built for speed, startup times, and speedy access to the internet. The OS […]
Read More | ShareTelstra launches Tribe® social networking tool
Exclusive to Telstra customers – a new social networking tool called Tribe® has been launched. Tribe® aggregates your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace into one single interface where you can access all sites from. Telstra customers simply browse to http://tribe.telstra.com from their mobile browser to access this feature, and there are no data / usage costs, […]
Read More | ShareGoogle crowns Facebook 1st in page views, Yahoo 2nd
Google has recently released more internet traffic data from their Google Adplanner / DoubleClick system. According to Adplanner, Facebook is visited by 540 million people monthly – which is around 35% of the internet population. Yahoo network is visited by 490 million visitors per month – 31% of the internet population. On Facebook approximately 570 […]
Read More | ShareCommunications Minister not happy with Facebook and Google privacy
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 […]
Read More | ShareGoogle I/O conference Day 1 San Francisco
Recap from Google I/O conference Day 1 – San Francisco What does I/O mean? mainly known for the input/output function, but Google is redefining it as innovation/openness. HTML5 is seen as the future of web development and applications, even mobile applications – allowing speed and less bandwidth consumption. Google co-founder and CEO Sergey Brin admits […]
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