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What good is it for Fortescue to talk tax with Gillard ???

Labour has a get out of jail free card on this one…if they say “No, we have a deal with BHP Billiton Ltd, Rio Tinto Ltd and Xstrata and if you (the Greens) don’t agree it won’t go into place at all” then they have indirectly delivered a victory to the Liberal party…so this is what they’ll to do… [...]

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Honda’s ‘Impossible Dream’…REDUX

When I first saw this ad I loved it! What might be called the “Directors Cut” is longer and thanks to the Honda Jet adds a little “James Bond” to it as well. [...]

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Yep, yep, yep…Telephone….Brrrrring!!!

I love these types of gadgets. My HTC Touch HD spends most of its day going in and out of its desk top charger – but with one of these babies I think those days will be numbered.

The YUBZ RETRO HANDSET allows you to connect your cell phone with a retro handset. [...]

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Telstra wants to turn mobile internet users into a TRIBE

Last week (9 June 2010) I was lucky enough to listen to Telstra CFO John Stanhope addressed the annual Stockbrokers Association of Australia conference here in Melbourne.

One of the points he reinforced was about the boom in social networks via mobile.

Of the five million 3G mobile customers he advised that over [...]

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A “privacy” picture is worth a thousand words

When it comes to the privacy issues with Facebook nothing displays the reasons for concern better than the Infographics at The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook… [...]

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“Social media networks become an important stop for investment information”…Duh!!

When are you guys going to learn? Another financial research firm and consultant, Spectrem, has just recently released a new survey that suggests that not only do 69% of LinkedIn users consult their LinkedIn networks on investment issues but more than one-third of investors say they are interested in receiving information from their advisors or corresponding with them via social networks [...]

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Testing, testing…1,2,3….

This is one of those stories that are sometimes hard to believe…but then again…so I head over to cnet news. Sure enough – “IBM: We distributed malware-ridden USB drives” at an Australian security conference. There is that old rule that says IF IT CAN HAPPEN IT MOST PROBABLY WILL… [...]

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Pac-man turns 30 and Google lets everyone know…

I was 9 years old when “Pakkuman”, or Pac-man as most of us know it, was first released in Japan on May 22, 1980 by Namco. And to celebrate this landmark you can head over to google.com for a fully playable version of the most famous video game in the world. [...]

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Social Networks are PRIVACY and not price sensative…

Yesterday I wrote an article about the Privacy debate that had be raging over Facebook’s new “Open Graph” upgrades (Click here to read the story).

The last point of my post was that Privacy (not Price like many other businesses) was the sensitivity that social networks compete on.

Well, both CNet and Forbesare reporting that [...]

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Happy Birthday YouTube

How else would the world’s biggest TV channel celebrate their 5th birthday other than a video…

But before you watch it did you also know that;

YouTube’s front page receives every day 45,000,000 hit 70 percentage of YouTube traffic comes from outside the US. Every minute of the day 24 hours of video is uploaded [...]

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