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Founder of Shifty Jelly, Russell Ivanovic - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep09
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:29:30
Publish Date: 2012-04-01 20:08:18
Description: First up is the Talking Technology news and then at 14 minutes is an interview with Russell Ivanovic, founder of Shifty Jelly, one of Australia’s leading iPhone, iPad and Android app development companies. www.shiftyjelly.com Leon and Garry talk about issues including: The federal government-owned NBN Co internally endorsed controversial Chinese equipment maker Huawei Technologies as a major supplier to the $36 billion national broadband network, but was blocked by the Gillard government on the advice of intelligence agency ASIO. Just over a week after the launch of the new iPad, the device now accounts for about 1 in 15 Apple tablets accessing the internet, a mobile ad network says. Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission, the ACCC, cannot seem to get Australia’s two major supermarkets to stop jacking up fuel prices, and despite incredibly important issues like ever higher fuel prices in Australia which affect every Australian alive today, which the ACCC seems unable to genuinely do anything about, the competition watchdog says it is taking Apple to court for misleading claims over its latest tablet device. Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission, the ACCC, cannot seem to get Australia’s two major supermarkets to stop jacking up fuel prices, and despite incredibly important issues like ever higher fuel prices in Australia which affect every Australian alive today, which the ACCC seems unable to genuinely do anything about, the competition watchdog says it is taking Apple to court for misleading claims over its latest tablet device. Facebook has spoken out against businesses that demand Facebook usernames and passwords from their employees and prospective hires. Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting classes. Google is, naturally, all about online advertising, but the company isn't neglecting its own ad campaigns in traditional mediums. In fact, the search giant's advertising spend when it comes to magazine, newspaper and TV adverts has very nearly increased by a factor of four, from $56 million in 2010, to $213 million last year. That's according to Kantar Media's estimations. Hacktivism is now officially the number one threat to data on the internet, according to Verizon’s latest report on data breaches, with collectives like Anonymous stealing more than 58 per cent of data in 2011. Adelaide will be the destination for Australia's first commercial biofuel flight when Qantas powers one of its Airbus jets with cooking oil next month. The government of Iceland has announced that it intends to migrate its entire public service servers and desktops over to open source platforms, standards, and software. Online movie viewing in the US will exceed digital video disc and Blu-ray use for the first time this year, according to researcher IHS Screen Digest. Australians will soon be able to receive their letters online with Australia Post's new digital mailbox. Bandai, the creator of the original Tamagotchi, has moved into electronic animal care with Smartpet — a robot dog that uses your iPhone as a brain.
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