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Quickflix looks to avoid Netflix’s failures

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:20:01 +0000

Home-grown streaming service Quickflix is rapidly gaining momentum after content giant Home Box Office (HBO) today made a multimillion-dollar investment in the company, but Quickflix founder Stephen Langsford told ZDNet Australia that the company needs to be careful to avoid the mistakes of US streaming giant, Netflix.

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Reset expectations on e-health: AMA

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:02:01 +0000

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has called on the Federal Government to "reset expectations" that it will deliver e-health records to Australians by July this year . (Littman image by Katrin Morenz , CC BY-SA 2.0 ) AMA President Dr Steven Hambleton told a Senate hearing this morning that the government's proposed deadline for the launch of its personally controlled e-health record (PCEHR) system for all Australians by 1 July 2012 is "problematic". "We have a real problem with the level of expectation that has been set ...

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Apple wins eleventh-hour bid to avoid ban

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:43:01 +0000

Apple has temporarily blocked Motorola Mobility's attempt to have it withdraw several iPhone and iPad models from its online store in Germany, the latest twist in an extended legal duel over patents between the companies. The sale of the devices was briefly halted after Motorola Mobility enforced a ruling that it won against Ireland-based Apple Sales International from a court in Mannheim, Germany. The court had earlier ruled that Apple should not be using Motorola's mobile technology in the devices without a licence.

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By the numbers: the Facebook prospectus

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:30:01 +0000

Facebook's IPO has been compared to Google as the next big opportunity to invest in a massive internet enterprise, but how much is hype and how much is realistic? One thousand dollars of Google shares from 2004 would be worth about $6000 today. Not bad, considering we've been through a period of economic turbulence.

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US military, govt turn to Android

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:29:01 +0000

Google's Android operating system may soon receive the US Government's seal of security approval, according to a report from CNN . Citing a source close to the project, CNN says that developers in a government program are working on smartphones that run a customised version of the OS with security improvements

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What is FRAND?

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:21:01 +0000

With patent lawsuits between technology players like Apple, Samsung and Motorola all the rage nowadays, one term is popping up more frequently: "FRAND".

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Society 5: our democratic digital future

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:19:01 +0000

With two billion people now online, we should probably start thinking about the kind of world we want to create. Enter the Society 5 project. "This is a collaborative discussion

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Google policy changes irk EU officials

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:37:01 +0000

European Union officials have asked Google to refrain from implementing its plans to share user information across all of its services until the privacy implications can be analysed, but Google is standing its ground.

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The application nation

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:18:01 +0000

It seems that applications take up a lot of the government's budget, year on year, which makes me wonder why more departments aren't following Queensland's Department of Education. The department has released a tender for a vendor to construct a plan to rationalise 35 Microsoft Access and .NET applications , calling in an external vendor to take a snapshot of what the department's got under its hood. I'm sure it's part of the Department of Human Services consolidation .

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Android malware finds way to polymorph

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:54:01 +0000

Symantec is reporting that it has begun to see Android malware that exhibits similar characteristics to server-side polymorphic malware in the desktop environment. (Pixel Virus image by Surian Soosay , CC BY 2.0 ) The company said that it has come across malicious Android applications hosted outside of the Android marketplace, which automatically change themselves each time they are downloaded . The malware, which Symantec's mobile-security product detects as Android.Opfake, makes changes to variable data, re-orders files in Android packages and/or inserts dummy files in an attempt to avoid detection.

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