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  • China's online rise opens doors
    That is at least four to five times larger than the growth witnessed in developed economies such as the US and Australia. These numbers might seem staggering. But there is still huge room for more growth. Internet penetration in China, at about 37 per [The Australian]
  • Enter the Ninja: A startup attempts world domination on ?Internet of Things ...
    Ninja Blocks cropped You might have heard of Ninja Blocks. The Sydney-based startup first came to the world's attention last year with one of the most successful pre-Pebble hardware campaigns on Kickstarter. The Ninja Block, a small device with built [PandoDaily (blog)]
  • Malware fight goes public on the web
    The web page, published on Tuesday as part of National Cyber Security Awareness Week, contains detailed statistics of malware infections reported daily to about 130 ISPs and other network operators through the Australian Internet Security Initiative [Sydney Morning Herald]
  • Risk of de facto Internet filter for Australia: Ludlam
    The Australian Communications and Media Authority told Computerworld Australia it ?has never issued any notices for blocking or access prevention under section 313 of the Telecommunications Act 1997 for the so called 'worst of' list of child sexual [Computerworld Australia]
  • 50 percent of Australians who oppose vaccination get their information from ...
    To coincide with the broadcast of Jabbed: Love, Fear and Vaccines (SBS ONE, Sunday 26 May at 8.30pm) the first ever national survey on Australian attitudes to vaccination reveals surprising statistics including half of Australians opposing immunisation [Medical Xpress]
  • Flashback: How Yahoo Killed Flickr And Lost The Internet
    Something that had never been done before, a moment of change that shaped the internet we know today. This is the story of Flickr and how Yahoo bought it and murdered it and screwed itself out of relevance along the way. Do you remember Flickr's tag [Gizmodo Australia]
  • Internet job ads fall 3.6pc in April
    The Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations internet vacancy index fell to a seasonally adjusted 61.6 points in the month, and was 24.1 per cent lower than a year earlier. All eight occupational groups monitored by the department [Yahoo!7 News]
  • Love in the time of online scams
    Internet-borne crime isn't always about abusing or subverting technology. One of the more lucrative scams around has merciless criminals fleece lonely and emotionally-vulnerable people. To these fraudsters, their victims are rich pickings if only they [SC Magazine Australia]
  • 67% of Australian tweens on social media: McAfee
    The most popular site for tweens was Skype (used by 28 percent), but children were also using Instagram, according to the survey of 500 youngsters geograhically representative of Australia's online population. While the survey found that one in five [Times LIVE]
  • The Weirdest Thing On The Internet Tonight: Dumbass (NSFW)
    Ai Weiwei is one of China's pre-eminent contemporary artists, having won numerous worldwide accolades for his architectural feats (such as that awesome Beijing National Stadium from the 2008 Olympics). The problem is Ai isn't what you'd call a ?company [Gizmodo Australia]
  • news compiled : May 25, 2013

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