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Founder and managing director of EdSoft Interactive, Andrew Bennetto - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep11
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:31:13
Publish Date: 2012-04-16 01:41:43
Description: Interview with Andrew Bennetto, the founder and managing director of EdSoft Interactive, the largest educational e-learning company in Australia. Leon and Garry discuss topics including - Facebook spending $US1 billion ($A978 million) to buy the photo-sharing company Instagram in the social network's largest acquisition ever. - Microsoft and Google aren't going head to head just over Internet search, office productivity suites and cloud-based applications and services. Their next looming battle is over who will own the living room, and the outcome will have surprising implications for IT as well. - More than half a million Apple computers have been infected with the Flashback Trojan, according to a Russian anti-virus firm. - The Japanese Nikkei business daily is reporting that Sony is planning to cut its global workforce by 10,000 workers, or about 6 percent of its entire workforce by as early as the end of 2012. - Taiwanese smartphone-maker HTC recorded a 35 percent year-on-year decrease in total revenue in the first quarter of 2012, according to its unaudited results for the period. - Yahoo is laying off 2000 employees as new CEO Scott Thompson sweeps out jobs that don't fit into his turnaround plans for the beleaguered company. The cuts represent about 14 per cent of Yahoo's 14,100 workers. - Blackberry maker Research in Motion has lost two more executives, including Senior Vice President Alan Brenner, are departing as the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone considers strategic options that include a sale of the company. But Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) says sales to U.S. federal agencies are rising and the BlackBerry is still a White House fixture, a bright spot for a company struggling with plunging demand amid competition from the iPhone. - China's Commerce Ministry says Australia's ban on Huawei bidding for work on the national broadband network (NBN) is "unjust". But Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers has made no bones about portraying Huawei as Cisco's most formidable long-term competitor, and at an event late last week, he took aim at the Chinese telecom giant for not always "playing by the rules" in IP security and intellectual property protection. - AOL has agreed to sell 800 of its patents and license others to Microsoft Corp for about $US1.06 billion ($A1.04 billion) in cash. - The research team at Google that is working on the augmented reality glasses has provided a glimpse of what the product may actually look like. The team, which launched a Google + page for Project Glass says it has started testing the product and were now looking for feedback on the idea. - A British psychologist has created an iPhone app to help people manipulate their dreams by playing pleasant "soundscapes" during slumber. DreamON monitors a person 20 minutes before they want to wake, playing a 'soundscape' designed to invoke pleasant scenarios, such as lying by the sea or walking in the countryside. - Qantas has released a new Windows Phone based app designed to help customers make flights on time.
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