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Five Things sums up the week in social media and innovation. We look at events in Australia and around the world that inspired and intrigued us.
1. Yahoo’s billion dollar deal. On Monday, Yahoo made a big move to reach a younger audience by purchasing Tumblr for $1.13 billion. Although Yahoo is one of the [...]
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Five Things sums up the week in social media and innovation. We look at events in Australia and around the world that inspired and intrigued us.
1. Innovation at Google: This week the Google I/O conference was held in San Francisco. Not just your everyday conference, last year saw the launch of Continue Reading →
Five Things sums up the week in social media and innovation. We look at events in Australia and around the world that inspired and intrigued us.
1. Eye-tracking investigation: Rumours were rife earlier this year that Samsung’s highly anticipated new phone, the Galaxy S4, would include eye-tracking technology. It has been announced that the phone [...]
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Do you hate getting an unsolicited telemarketing call just when you’re sitting down to dinner? Well, you’re not alone!
We’ve released an infographic showing just how Australians feel about unsolicited communications. The results are from a recent ACMA survey about telemarketing, spam and malware—and we’ll be releasing more of this research in the coming months. [...]
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Five Things sums up the week in social media and innovation. We look at events in Australia and around the world that inspired and intrigued us.
1. The world’s first 3D printed bionic organ – Back in February, Gizmodo reported scientists at Heriot-Watt University had produced human embryonic stems cells using 3D printing.
Creating [...]
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1. Mars, the new location for reality TV. A Dutch reality show is planning to document the first humans living on Mars. The company, Mars One, aims to land four astronauts in 2023 and capture their attempts to set up a colony on Mars. A total of six groups of four will be sent to [...]
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1. Social media unites to track down suspects. The devastating events that unfolded in Boston unsurprisingly dominated the news this week. The Slate estimated when the bombs went off, so many people had access to smartphones, that at the time, the site could have been the most photographed place on earth.
It was clear [...]
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Five Things sums up the week in social media and innovation. We look at events in Australia and around the world that inspired and intrigued us.
1. Internet downloads increase by a third. The same week that saw Malcolm Turnbull unveil the Coalition’s plan for the NBN, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released new research on [...]
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Child sexual abuse material distributed online is a worldwide problem—and Australia is part of the global response. The ACMA has today released an infographic showing our part of the Australian experience.
To HELP eradicate child exploitation material from the internet, we are part of INHOPE – a global network of 43 (and growing) internet [...]
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Five things sums up the week in social media and innovation. We look at events in Australia and around the world that inspired and intrigued us.
1. The mobile phone turns 40. We’ve come a long way since the early days of the mobile phone, a bulky product with a pull-out aerial. This week we [...]
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