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The Money Just Flows, As Bezos Launches Video Service

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Amazon is taking on Google with a YouTube-style video service allowing its customers to post clips and access online video. Anyone with an Amazon account can upload videos they have…

The Force Is With Electronic Arts

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Giant video-game publisher Electronic Arts has posted a better-than-expected quarterly result. The result is in part due to the popular Star Wars Battlefront video game that continues to attract new players…

Jacked Off: Online Retailer Cops $10K Fine Over Illegal Jack Sales

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Online retailer Update Technology has paid a $10,200 fine after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found that Update had been marketing high-lift jacks that did not comply with the…

Anti-Piracy Group Steps Up Drive

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An Australian association representing movie importers is stepping up its campaign to have pirate movie sites blocked, despite encountering legal difficulties in penalising Australian operators of piracy sites. Village Roadshow…

Why BOM Was Bombarded

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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) was hit by a deliberate cyber attack late last year in a deliberate bid to cripple the Australian economy, a major cybercrime meeting has…

Shorten To Announce New NBN Plan But Won’t Say Where The Money Is Coming From

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Labor leader Bill Shorten says he will deliver a revamped broadband policy in coming weeks – spurring debate over whether he might be about to ditch Labor’s existing plan to…

Tablets Take Biggest Hit As PC Market Slides To 2011 Level

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Worldwide PC shipments dipped by 13 percent year-on-year to their lowest point since Q2 2011. New figures from Canalys show PC shipments of 101 million units in Q1 2016, a…

Qantas.com Flies With AWS

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Qantas has gone live with Amazon Web Services and plans to shift more applications into the cloud. The recently relaunched Web site, Qantas.com, is the company’s first cab off the…

Apple Pay Drives ANZ Numbers

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The ANZ Banking Group says its recent deal with Apple to provide Apple Pay in Australia has sparked a surge in applications for credit and deposit accounts. ANZ CEO Shayne…

Shorten to detail high risk fibre plan

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CANBERRA – Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said yesterday that he would provide a revamped broadband policy ahead of warnings of a potential $8.5 billion cost blowout if Labor were to…