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22nd April 2012 Archive

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  • Aviva presses wrong button, fires 1,300 by email

    KILL! KILL! KILL!

    As HR mistakes go this is a doozy. On Friday, Aviva's asset management arm, Aviva Investors, dismissed the entire global workforce, more than 1,300 strong, by mass email. Within minutes,the HR department sent another mass mail retracting the notice and apologising for their mistake. Clerical error was blamed for exit mail, …

    Jobs 22 Apr 08:53

  • AOL slaps on 'online Nielsen ratings' to lure advertising fat cats

    Wants to prove it attracts the 'right sort' of people

    AOL hopes to steal a march on its online competitors in the US over the next few weeks, when it shows off its use of metrics – which are the closest Nielsen can get to comparing the results of online video based ad campaigns with TV campaigns. AOL has announced the use of this new model, which uses the Nielsen gross rating …

    Music and Media 22 Apr 11:12

  • Post-iiNet ISPs may celebrate, but hosts should fret

    iiNet’s win isn’t a blanket immunity

    While ISPs and carriers are justified in tossing their hats skywards after iiNet’s win over rights-owners in the High Court, the decision doesn’t confer a blanket immunity over the whole IT sector. To understand why this is so, it’s necessary to understand the basis on which the High Court made its decision. Since 2008, the …

    Public Sector 22 Apr 21:43

  • Google founders, James Cameron, go asteroid mining

    Tech elite seek rocks ... IN SPAAAACE

    A powerful cabal of tech, media and aeronautics uber executives are set to reveal how their freshly launched company Planetary Resources, will scope for natural resources outside of planet earth. The new entity, backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Google board member K.Ram Shriram, filmmaker …

    Science 22 Apr 22:22

  • Nine network goes 3D for Olympics

    ACMA grants trial licence after two year pause

    Coverage of the 2012 Olympic games available in Australia will feature daily highlights in 3D, after the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s green light for Network Nine to conduct extra-dimensional trials during the eveent. In 2010 Network Nine and the Seven network were awarded 3D TV trial licences, the last …

    Music and Media 22 Apr 23:30