3rd February 2013 Archive

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• BlackBerry: Aaah, Microsoft, we meet again.. for another deathmatch

  Ballmer: Bring me the head of Alicia Keys, and let's end this

  What is it with technology giants plonking award-winning pop vixens into top jobs to tout their new gear? Are they a mere distraction or underrated business executives? RIM, sorry, BlackBerry made Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys its global creative director for its BlackBerry OS 10 launch along with two new mobes. According …

  Operating Systems 3 Feb 09:28

• Telcos splash political donations in Australia

  Mactel and Optus donate over $AUD200,000, favouring conservatives

  Two telecommunications companies, Macquarie Telecom and Singtel Optus, have appeared in the list of companies making donations to Australian political parties during financial year 2011/2012. Macquarie Telecom donated $AUD135,500 , of which $88,000 went the conservative Liberal party and $45,500 to the governing Australian …

  Government 3 Feb 21:02

• Wikileaks reveals Icelandic FBI shenanigans

  As Assange movie production ramps up, Wikileaks leaks some more dirt

  Whatever WikiLeaks eventually thinks of the movie being made about Julian Assange, it’s proving expert in the business of buzz-generation. After shooting began in Reykjavik at the end of January (Iceland Review), the organisation has revealed - completely co-incidentally, of course - an incident in August 2011 in which FBI …

  Government 3 Feb 22:17

• Rent-seekers target school laptops in Oz election year

  Getting more cash from the cow

  School, parent and teacher lobbies around Australia are gearing up to persuade the government to continue funding the laptops-in-schools program due to expire in June 2013. As noted in the National Partnership Agreement on the Digital Education Revolution (available here), the funding formalised between the federal government …

  Policy 3 Feb 22:23