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The great NBN fail

CommentI've had enough and something has got to be done.

• 9:17 am Feb 23, 2012 | business

Enterprise Social Networking: Focus on Relationships (Altimeter Report)

Long term adoption often unsuccessful beyond one department.

• 3:52 am Feb 23, 2012 | business

EU seeks legal opinion on global copyright pact

The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it would refer a disputed global agreement to tackle online piracy to the bloc's highest court to check whether it complies with EU fundamental rights.

• 7:21 pm Feb 22, 2012 | business

Heartland Institute’s climate Denial Gate

Last week (February 14, 2012), the story broke that the Heartland Institute which says on its About page that its mission is “to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems” – was the victim of an apparent theft.

• 7:57 am Feb 21, 2012 | business

Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal

On Tuesday 14th, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) posted a message on RnBXclusive.com, stating: "If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years…

• 4:25 am Feb 21, 2012 | business

Santorum: Democrats are "anti-science," not me

Portraying himself as a native son of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum Monday emphasized his heritage as the grandson of a coal miner and railed against environmental regulations that have diminished…

• 6:21 am Feb 21, 2012 | business

Lloyds takes back bonuses from 10 executives

Lloyds is the first British bank to claw back bonuses following a worse than-expected financial performanceLloyds Banking Group is clawing back bonuses worth £2m from 10 executives, including the former chief executive Eric Daniels, the BBC has learned.

• 3:02 pm Feb 20, 2012 | business

Cancer survivor fights to stop gene ownership

A breast cancer survivor says she is challenging a patent claim on cancer genes because she does not want biotech companies to own human material.

• 2:28 pm Feb 20, 2012 | business

Rupert Murdoch to launch Sun on Sunday next weekend

The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced.

• 11:52 pm Feb 19, 2012 | business

U.N. inspectors to press Iran over nuclear concerns

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Saturday a nuclear armed Iran would trigger an arms race in the Middle East and nations should impose "crippling" sanctions on Tehran to force it to give up its atomic programme.

• 9:00 pm Feb 19, 2012 | business

Warnings and Advice

No current Recommendation To Evacuate messages No current Emergency Warning messa ges No current Watch and Act messages 19/09/11 5:46 PM Incident Information: CFA advise that there is fire activity in the Shady Creek, Webbs Road area.

• 9:25 am Feb 19, 2012 | business

Melbourne Schmart Marketing Conference

The PMP Limited inaugural Schmart Marketing Conference for 2011 has finished in both Sydney and Melbourne, watch this space for news on future events and stay connected on Social Media Channels.

• 6:31 pm Feb 18, 2012 | business

The FBI again thwarts its own Terror plot

News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch listens to remarks while participating in the Wall St. Journal CEO Council on "Rebuilding Global Prosperity" in Washington November 16, 2009.

• 7:34 am Feb 18, 2012 | business

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did

Every time you go shopping, you share intimate details about your consumption patterns with retailers.

• 2:27 am Feb 18, 2012 | business

ANZ reviews luxury cruise trips for staff

The ANZ Bank is reviewing a program that rewards staff with trips on luxury cruise liners, because of "community expectations".

• 9:42 am Feb 18, 2012 | business

US arrests suspect in Capitol suicide attack plot

A Moroccan man was arrested near the U.S.

• 12:00 am Feb 18, 2012 | business

German president set to resign, in blow to Merkel

Angela Merkel's hand picked choice for the ceremonial post of president was expected to resign on Friday in a scandal over political favours, dealing a blow to the German chancellor in the midst of the euro zone crisis.

• 7:14 am Feb 18, 2012 | business

Billabong slashes jobs as CEO asks government for help

SURFWEAR retailer Billabong International has left the door open for takeover offers as it starts shedding 400 jobs, closing stores and offloading a chunk of its accessories business.

• 6:58 am Feb 17, 2012 | business

ANZ CEO hits back at politicians

ANZ chief executive Mike Smith has accused politicians of short term point scoring by criticising the bank for its rate rises and job cuts.

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• 5:56 am Feb 17, 2012 | business

News International needs to decontaminate the Sun brand

Newspapers presenting themselves as victims caught in a storm whipped up by the Leveson inquiry won't wash with the public

• 11:50 pm Feb 16, 2012 | business

Avon, Mary Kay, and Este Lauder Are Paying for Tests on Animals

For more than two decades, Avon, Mary Kay, and Estée Lauder have been among the largest mainstream international companies on PETA's cruelty free lists.

• 10:58 pm Feb 16, 2012 | business

Solid debut for Amazon tablet: IHS ISuppli

Critics say Apple should not approve apps that copy user data, according to the company's own policiesTwitter has admitted copying entire address books from smartphones and storing the data on its servers, often without customers' knowledge.

• 11:02 pm Feb 16, 2012 | business

Three Major Australian Retailers Will Not Be Stocking The PlayStation Vita [UPDATE]

Bad news has come for bargain hunters in the lead up to the launch of the PS Vita: Big W, Target and K-Mart will not be stocking the Sony handheld console.

• 4:27 am Feb 16, 2012 | business

Greece Is on Pace for the Worst Recession in Modern History

Reuters The Greek economy shrank nearly 7% in 2011, the fifth straight year the country has been in a recession.

• 2:44 am Feb 16, 2012 | business

Murdoch’s Circle: The Growing News International Scandal

From phone hacking to bribery, the corruption at News International has involved many players increasingly, ones close to Rupert Murdoch.

• 4:58 am Feb 16, 2012 | business

Zynga’s Earnings: Social Gaming Revenue by the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

Social gaming juggernaut Zynga released its first public report since hitting NASDAQ in December.

• 5:21 am Feb 16, 2012 | business

Why Barack Obama and Xi Jinping need an Australian retreat with Kevin Rudd

Senator LUDLAM: If you are able to take that away and let us know, that would be great.

• 4:11 pm Feb 16, 2012 | business

Apple tweaks apps policy under lawmaker pressure

legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek "explicit approval" in separate user prompts before accessing users' address book…

• 9:30 pm Feb 15, 2012 | business

The EU's Emissions Trading System Isn't Working

Emissions trading, the European Union hoped, would limit the release of harmful greenhouse gases.

• 12:39 pm Feb 15, 2012 | business

Gartner: Apple leads the way among smartphone vendors, Android sees slight decline

Critics say Apple should not approve apps that copy user data, according to the company's own policiesTwitter has admitted copying entire address books from smartphones and storing the data on its servers, often without customers' knowledge.

• 4:41 am Feb 16, 2012 | business

Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool

It’s tough being a journalist, especially if you’re covering technology and living in Silicon Valley, because it seems as if everyone around you is getting fabulously rich while you’re stuck in a job that will never, ever make you wealthy.

• 12:54 pm Feb 15, 2012 | business

Internet in Iran severely disrupted as elections loom

Millions of Iranians have suffered serious disruption recently in accessing email and Internet social networking sites, raising concerns authorities are stepping up censorship of opposition supporters ahead of parliamentary elections next month.

• 9:09 am Feb 15, 2012 | business

Bulgaria drops online piracy treaty after protest

Bulgaria will not ratify an international anti piracy agreement after a mass protest over fears it will curb freedom to download movies and music for free and encourage Internet surveillance, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov said on Tuesday.

• 6:13 am Feb 15, 2012 | business

Moody's warns may cut AAA-rating for UK and France

Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple A ratings of France, Britain and Austria and it downgraded six other European nations including Italy, Spain and Portugal, citing growing risks from Europe's debt crisis.

• 1:12 pm Feb 14, 2012 | business

Pearltrees Raises $6.7M For Its “Collaborative Interest Graph”

Pearltrees, a company offering a novel interface for sharing and finding content, has raised 5 million euros ($6.7 million US) in new funding.

• 11:16 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

Reconciliation boosts Indigenous employment

Five years ago a program was launched to get more Indigenous people into the workforce and to promote reconciliation.

• 8:24 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

Suppressing the narrative in Bahrain

When martial law began in mid March last year, many local journalists were arrested or forced into exile, and most foreign journalists inside Bahrain were asked to leave.

• 5:18 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

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News Corp and the phone-hacking scandal

Here is a look at the major events on News Corp A lawyer for the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler says police have told him that her voicemail messages had been hacked, possibly by a News of the World…

• 5:23 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

Russia's concern for besieged Syrian Christians

The recent Russian and Chinese vetos of a UN Security Council resolution on Syria have been condemned in the stro Hillary Clinton called it a 'travesty' and the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, tweeted her 'disgust' at…

• 3:48 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

Moody's cuts ratings, outlooks on 9 in EU

Moody's has downgraded the debt ratings of Italy, Spain and Portugal and placed negative outlooks on France, Britain and Austria.

• 11:59 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France

A French court on Monday declared U.S.

• 2:41 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

EU approves Google takeover of Motorola

The EU's antitrust watchdog has approved Google's $US12.5 billion ($A11.7 billion) takeover of mobile phone maker Motorola.

• 7:37 am Feb 14, 2012 | business

Schiphol airport bomb threat suspect arrested

Dutch police arrested a man suspected of making a bomb threat at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Monday after the scare forced a partial evacuation at the airport, one of Europe's busiest, military police said.

• 5:00 pm Feb 13, 2012 | business

New Fukushima scare blamed on faulty thermometer

A scare over temperatures rising near danger level in a reactor at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, where workers are battling to prevent a resurgence of the radiation crisis, could be a false alarm, the plant operator said on Monday.

• 9:35 am Feb 13, 2012 | business

Sun arrests pile pressure on Murdoch media empire

Rupert Murdoch is under pressure over his Sun tabloid after the arrests of several senior staff in a corruption probe, but whistleblowers inside his media empire may pose more of a threat than the public outrage that forced the closure of its sister paper.

• 7:29 am Feb 13, 2012 | business

Strike action possible after ANZ job cuts

Over 10,000 jobs could disappear from the banking sector in as little as two years as the big four continue to axe positions while they lift interest rates independently of the Reserve Bank.

• 4:24 pm Feb 13, 2012 | business

Bulgarians rally against online piracy treaty

Thousands of Bulgarians staged protests on Saturday against an international anti piracy agreement they fear will curb their freedom to download movies and music for free and encourage Internet surveillance.

• 1:46 pm Feb 12, 2012 | business

Gina's poetic swipe at critics

MINING magnate Gina Rinehart has taken to penning poetry to take a swipe at her critics.

• 12:45 am Feb 23, 2012 | business

UK to "robustly" defend Falklands, Argentina seeks UN aid

ambassador warned Argentina on Friday that Britain would "robustly" defend the Falkland Islands if necessary, but added that his country remained open to bilateral talks with Buenos Aires on any issue except the islands' sovereignty.

• 12:30 pm Feb 11, 2012 | business

Truth gets lost in Canberra spin

SHADOW treasurer Joe Hockey has been whacked around the head this week for denying he ever admitted a Coalition government would have to slash existing programs by $70 billion to meet its own spending promises.

• 7:19 am Feb 11, 2012 | business

European stocks dip on Greece uncertainty

European stock markets have closed lower and the euro has dropped against the dollar in reaction to violent protests in Athens that rocked Greece's divided government after the eurozone held up a debt bailout.

• 3:27 pm Feb 11, 2012 | business

Lord and Lady of the media

Find More StoriesIn July 2011, one of the most extreme climate change denialists, Lord Monckton, accepted an invita a country that matters greatly in the struggle against global warming because of its vast deposits of…

• 1:55 pm Feb 10, 2012 | business

ANZ lifts home loan, small business rates

ANZ Banking Group has raised its variable interest rates for retail mortgages and small business loans by 0.06 per cent.

• 6:31 pm Feb 10, 2012 | business

Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim to Own the Interactive Web

After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and named after the Irish word for knowledge — may be finished.

• 5:33 am Feb 10, 2012 | business

'Troika' meeting over Greek debt fails

The political leaders backing Greece's coalition government have ended their meeting after seven and a half hours without an agreement on the austerity proposals of the so called "troika" of bailout creditors - the European Union, the European Central Bank…

• 1:02 pm Feb 10, 2012 | business

Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win

The city of Tyler, Texas, is better known as the nation’s “rose capital” than as a hotspot of the technology industry.

• 3:58 am Feb 9, 2012 | business

Groupon Posts Loss, Stock Falls 12%

In its first quarter as a public company, Groupon on Wednesday posted a loss of $.08 per share, which sent the company’s stock sliding in after hours trading.

• 12:20 am Feb 9, 2012 | business

Alcoa reviews production at aluminium smelter

The federal government's carbon tax is partly to blame for Alcoa reviewing operations at its Geelong smelter, which employs 600 Victorians, state treasurer Kim Wells says.

• 9:22 am Feb 18, 2012 | business

Professor Jill McKeough appointed as ALRC Commissioner for the Copyright Inquiry

The Attorney General, the Hon Nicola Roxon MP, has announced the appointment of Professor Jill McKeough as Commissioner in charge of the ALRC’s Inquiry into Copyright Law.

• 1:39 pm Feb 8, 2012 | national

Asia stocks mixed on Greek fears, China

Asian markets are mixed after marathon talks over Greece's massive debt ended without firm agreement and as China's annual inflation rate hit a three month high.

• 12:27 pm Feb 9, 2012 | business

Banks tipped to raise interest rates

Australia's big banks could take yesterday's Reserve Bank decision on interest rates as a green light to raise the cost of borrowing, despite Treasurer Wayne Swan's "jawboning", an economist has warned.

• 7:53 am Feb 8, 2012 | business

Obama proposes money for math, science education

President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed $80 million in new government funding for a program to boost science and math education in U.S.

• 6:00 am Feb 8, 2012 | world