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Aussies Play Bing Card in Dispute With Google
2021-02-02 13:21:00| TechNewsWorld
Microsoft is set to step in with its Bing search engine should Google make good on its promise to cut service to Australia in response to a proposed law to make tech firms pay for news content produced by the country's media companies. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he has spoken to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who is confident Bing could meet the needs of Australians should Google exit.
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Aussies Mull State-Run Alternative to Facebook, Google
2020-10-20 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
A warning by Facebook and Google that they may have to curb service to Australia if a controversial law takes effect this year has the Aussies reviewing their options, including setting up a publicly-funded social network. The idea was floated in a report titled "Tech-Xit: Can Australia survive without Google and Facebook?"
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Connected Aussies outpacing US
2016-04-06 09:44:49| Telecom - Topix.net
Australians are networking their homes at twice the rate of Americans and will be eager adopters of the much-anticipated "internet of things", Telstra's technology chief says. Telstra chief technical officer Vish Nandlall says US homes had an average of four devices connected to the internet in 2014, a rate well below tech-hungry Aussies.
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ACCC says LG misled Aussies over TV rights
2015-12-15 05:32:54| Electronics - Topix.net
The consumer watchdog is taking LG Electronics to the Federal Court for the second time in a decade, this time for misleading Australians over their rights over faulty TVs. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says the South Korean firm made false or misleading representations when it told customers they had no rights once the manufacturer's warranty had expired.
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Why Coke owes a couple of Aussies guys big
2014-10-18 08:22:40| Beverages - Topix.net
IT'S the simple idea that reinvigorated one of the world's biggest brands and it came from a couple of unassuming Aussie guys. Meet Coke's new heroes: Luke and Omid.