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TiVo Wins Trademark Fight Against VIVO in Australia

Digital video recording device maker TiVo has continued its run of recent legal successes with an Australian Federal Court ruling granting the company worldwide recognition and upholding the exclusive rights…

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ACCC Considers Suing Apple Again, Over E-Book Pricing

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is said to be considering taking action against Apple for the second time in a month, over allegations that the Cupertino-based technology giant has…

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Apple Begins Offering iPad Refunds in Australia

Apple has written to customers as it begin to follow up on its proposal to refund buyers of the new iPad in Australia that felt misled by the firm’s marketing of…

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Google Guilty over "Deceptive" Search Ads in Australia

Google has been found guilty of allowing advertisers to mislead users of its search engine in Australia, after the Federal Court upheld an appeal from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission…

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Freelancer's CEO Matt Barrie: Outsourcing Creates Entrepreneurs

Matt Barrie is a Keynote speaker at the upcoming The Next Web Conference  Recently named as one of the top 50 Australians in technology, Matt Barrie is arguably one of the best known…

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Apple Updates iPad 4G Marketing Notices on Australian Site

Finding itself on the wrong side of a lawsuit from The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) earlier this week over “misleading” advertising statements over the 4G capabilities of its new iPad, Apple has…

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Now New Zealand Investigates iPad 4G Advertising

Apple’s issues over iPad advertising that misled consumers in Australia over 4G support have begun spread to neighbouring New Zealand where authorities are now scrutinizing the firm, a TVNZ report…

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Australia Offers iPad Refunds After LTE Confusion

Apple is proposing to offer buyers of the new iPad in Australia the opportunity of a full refund, after the Cupertino-based company was taken to court for “misleading” consumers over support…

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Australian Regulator to Sue Apple Over "Misleading" 4G iPad

Apple’s promotion of its new iPad has landed the company in hot water in Australia, where a government competition regulator has said it will take action against the Cupertino-based technology…

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Wikipedia Gets Creative Commons Archive Content From ABC

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the Antipodean public service broadcasting equivalent of the BBC, is marking its 80th anniversary by launching a new website called 80 Days That Changed Our…

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WikiLeaks Announce Julian Assange is running for Australian Senate

Last December, the official WikiLeaks Twitter account asked this question: is it possible for Julian Assange to run for the Australian Senate while under house arrest in another country? Apparently the…

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Australia, Japan, Singapore Begin Selling the new iPad

In case you’ve been living under a rock, sales of Apple’s new iPad — known popularly as the ‘iPad 3′ — begin today across 10 countries worldwide, with Australia, Japan…

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Apple Settles Australian Soundboard App Lawsuit

Apple has settled a curious copyright lawsuit in which a 16 year-old app Australian developer created and earned thousands of dollars from a soundboard app using images and sounds from…

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Phone Watercoating Startup Liquipel Expands Abroad

Launched in January during CES, Liquipel is now expanding to Australia, Brazil and China, the American company announced today, ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As you may remember, Liquipel’s ambition…

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BBC iPlayer Booms in Australia

Two months after BBC Worldwide launched its global iPlayer app to 11 Western European countries in July, the app arrived in Australia, followed swiftly by Canada and then Scandinavia. The…