Carolyn Bollaci, country manager for MediaMind in Australia and New Zealand, explains why it's so vital that she has her iPhone when she travels, and also reveals the importance of learning some of the language of the country you're visiting, in order to avoid any embarrassment. Carolyn Bollaci (Credit: MediaMind) What tech do you miss from home?

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Travel Tech Q and A: MediaMind's Carolyn Bollaci

Dropbox is the Apple of web-storage companies. It's got a clan of fanboys who swear by it

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LogMeIn launches Cubby: file sync and share done right

Vodafone is edging towards completing its network upgrade, and Telstra is constantly upgrading Next G, but are customers noticing improvements yet?

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Full Spectrum: reducing mobile congestion

Applying for that dream corporate job is stressful enough, so who needs recruiters looking at your old, incriminating Instagram photos in the process? Here's how to save them before you nuke your account. First, you'll want to download those old photos to your local computer using Instaport

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Ditch your Instagram, keep your photos

I previously considered interns to be American things. I don't ever recall coming across them until that infamous matter involving Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

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Whatever you do, don't screw the intern

Facebook paid how much for Instagram? Why did Sydney Uni freeze its prepaid cards

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One billion Zuckerbucks

A recent US report on trade barriers has revealed a hissy fit by US companies about the Australian government's caution on cloud. The report (PDF) , released last month by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, says that US companies have voiced concerns that various Australian government departments are "sending negative messages about cloud computing services to potential Australian customers in both the public and private sectors, implying that hosting data overseas, including in the United States, by definition entails greater risk and unduly exposes consumers to their data being scrutinised by foreign governments".

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US cloud firms should get off the soap box

While the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has said that it will look into any complaints from Australian retailers relating to the US Department of Justice's (DoJ) investigation into price collusion over ebooks, the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) said that it would prefer the commission to look into Amazon's "predatory" pricing practices. (Stack of books image by Horia Varlan , CC2.0 ) The ebook pricing issue has bubbled to the surface again this week , following the US DoJ suing prominent US publishers and resellers, including Apple, for artificially propping up ebook prices. The DoJ has accused Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and CBS-owned Simon and Schuster of using an "agency model" that sees the publishers set their own prices for ebooks, rather than using the wholesale model wherein stores purchase a book and sell it for their own price

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Amazon to blame for agency pricing: ABA

After over four months of deliberation, the High Court is set to hand down its judgment for the long-running copyright infringement case between the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) and iiNet next Friday. The High Court has today announced that the judgment will be handed down at 10am AEST on Friday, 20 April. iiNet's CEO Michael Malone and chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby will hold a media conference at 1pm on that day.

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iiNet-AFACT judgment out next week

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has extended the deadline for the submission of applications for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), because of a bug in its application system. Last year, the corporation decided to allow the creation of gTLDs , such as .qantas, .music and .sydney.

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ICANN extends gTLD deadline over glitch