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An interview with Craig Scroggie, vice president of Symantec (Asia-Pac).
Leon and Garry talk about issues including:
. The new Microsoft logo
. The Fair Labor Association, a watchdog monitoring working conditions at makers of Apple Inc. products, uncovering “tons of issues” that need to be addressed at a Foxconn Technology Group plant in Shenzhen, China.
. A study showing that of owners of iPads tend to be older and richer than people who buy rival tablet computers.
. A US study showing that students who use iPads score better in every literacy test than those who don't.
. Reports that Google plans to bring out computerized eye glasses by the end of the year.
. Amazon planning a new tablet
. A study showing a new trend: nomophobia, or the fear of having no-mobile phone handy.
. Google intentionally circumventing the default privacy settings of Apple’s Safari browser, using a backdoor to set cookies on browsers set to reject them, in the latest privacy debacle for the search and advertising giant.
. Microsoft announcing it had discovered Google had done the same with Internet Explorer.
. The AFL has become one of Australia’s first organisations to apply for a new top-level domain name, a move the organisation believes will help customers find more trustworthy information and expand its brand.
. Australians supporting the high speed national broadband network (NBN) exceed opponents by more than two to one, a new survey shows. But it depends which way you read the numbers.
. Optus has agreed to acquire Vividwireless from its current owner, Seven Group Holdings, for $230 million in cash. In doing so, Optus will gain 98MHz of spectrum in the 2.3GHz band, which is suitable for 4G services.
. Internet service provider iinet Ltd says net profit rose 17 per cent and subscriber numbers grew to 860,000 in the first half of 2011/12.
. Woolworths Ltd opening two temporary virtual supermarkets in Melbourne and Sydney to explore the possibilities of digital retail and app based shopping.
. A patent filed by Google showcases a new technology that could enable users to control Google TV-equipped devices using their voices.
. Apple has just doubled its market in China with China Telecom, China's No. 3 mobile carrier and No. 1 Wi-Fi and fixed-line provider (total subscribers: 216 million), announcing that it will begin taking iPhone 4S preorders next week for sales starting March 9.
. The rivers of gold telcos have made from the billions of SMS text messages sent all over the world are drying up.
. A High Court judge in England has approved the use of Facebook to serve legal claims.
. Research In Motion this week has released a free upgraded operating system for its struggling PlayBook computer tablet, almost a year later than it first said it would.
. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, is coming to Australia to give a series of talks about the rise of Apple. |