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Soccer brothers develop early education app to blend sport with screen time
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Former Sydney FC defender Jacob Timpano and his brother Matt develop an educational app that uses soccer as a vehicle to teach preschool concepts such as colours, numbers and shapes.
Topics: educational-resources, internet-technology, children---preschoolers, soccer, sport, wollongong-2500
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Families describe what it is like to manage the child care juggle Audio
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Story about an online platform that enables parents to find babysitters and nannies in their area. Includes high school teacher and mother Alison Ayling, grandmother Di Ayling, founder of Juggle Street David James, registered nurse and father Larry Emery, and president of the Australian Childcare Alliance NSW Lyn Connolly.
Topics: child-care, children, parenting, internet-technology, business-economics-and-finance, newcastle-2300, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000
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Topics: people, business-economics-and-finance, internet-technology, child-care, ultimo-2007
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'Flawed and inaccurate': Internet pioneers call on US to keep net neutrality
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Internet inventors and Apple's co-founder are among a high-profile group of internet pioneers demanding a vote on net neutrality be stopped.
Topics: internet-technology, computers-and-technology, internet-culture, information-and-communication, government-and-politics, united-states
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Why Facebook's new messenger app for kids could be a good thing Opinion
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Facebook's new app is an interesting innovation in the social media space precisely because it promotes learning about and using social media together with kids, writes Philippa Collin.
Topics: computers-and-technology, internet-technology, children, family-and-children, australia
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Here's why Apple thinks Shazam is worth half a billion dollars
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Apple has confirmed it's reached a deal to buy Shazam, the UK-based app that lets people use the microphone on their mobile to identify songs.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, internet-technology, mobile-phones, united-states, united-kingdom
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Optus to compensate 8,700 customers for slow NBN speeds
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The telco admits it is likely to have breached the Australian Consumer Law and will compensate 8,700 NBN customers who got less than they bargained for.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, telecommunications, internet-technology, regulation, australia
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Partnership tackles Pacific tourism's internet absence Audio
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The Pacific is a choice tourism destination for people around the world - but an agency that focuses on boosting business in the region says many of its tourism operators don't recognise the importance of being online.
Topics: tourism, travel-and-tourism, internet-technology, pacific
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Warren Buffett offers sage advice in the age of Amazon Analysis
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The world's most famous investor, Warren Buffett, has some old-fashioned advice for Australian retailers feeling the heat from Amazon: "delight your customers".
Topics: retail, internet-technology, company-news, computers-and-technology, information-and-communication, community-and-society, australia
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Adelaide's imminent CBD internet promises speeds up to 100 times the NBN
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Internet speeds up to 100 times faster than the NBN are being promised from a fibre network about to be rolled out in the Adelaide CBD, which the city hopes will give it a competitive edge.
Topics: internet-technology, information-and-communication, computers-and-technology, local-government, government-and-politics, business-economics-and-finance, adelaide-5000, sa
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Spit thrown at Ben McCormack as he walks free from court over child porn conviction
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A cup of spit is thrown at the former Channel Nine reporter while leaving court after being given a three-year good behaviour bond for promoting child pornography in messages he exchanged with another man online.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, media, internet-technology, sydney-2000
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Is your teddy bear watching you? What parents need to know about smart toys
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It's everything a kid ever dreamed of — toys that can talk back. They're popular gifts, but are internet-connected toys safe?
Topics: science-and-technology, internet-technology, community-and-society, family-and-children, australia
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Russia designates Radio Free Europe and Voice of America as 'foreign agents'
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Russia's move against the US media outlets is aimed at complicating their work in retaliation for what Moscow says is unacceptable US pressure on Russian media.
Topics: information-and-communication, media, world-politics, internet-technology, united-states, russian-federation
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China unveils 'Digital Silk Road'; foresees internet-era power shift soon
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Cybertechnology leaders from around the world gather in China for an annual internet conference, but two key elements of this years event — the establishment of Beijing's Digital Silk Road and the attendance of American technology trailblazers — mark a potential shift in global digital power dynamics.
Topics: world-politics, internet-technology, china, asia
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Big retailers have treated us poorly for years, but Amazon is a gamechanger Opinion
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Amazon will either transform shopping for customers, destroy local businesses or be a complete flop. Whichever turns out to be true, Australian businesses are already responding, writes Alan Kirkland.
Topics: consumer-protection, retail, christmas, internet-technology, australia
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Ruff justice: Ipswich council funds website for barking dog complaints
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Barking dogs rub so many people up the wrong way that the Ipswich City Council has decided to fund a web developer to create a site that helps people notify their neighbours anonymously.
Topics: local-government, internet-culture, internet-technology, activism-and-lobbying, ipswich-4305, qld
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Amazon launches in Australia, local retailers brace for onslaught
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US retail goliath Amazon opens for business in Australia promising to offer "millions" of products from well-known local brands.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, retail, internet-technology, computers-and-technology, information-and-communication, australia
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Amid soaring complaints, should telcos face the same regulation as water and energy?
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With complaints about phone and internet providers soaring, consumer groups give a vote of no confidence in consumer protections and call for the troubled sector to be regulated like the water or energy industries.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, information-technology, consumer-protection, australia
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China stresses importance of cyber sovereignty in internet vision
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China's President Xi Jinping says the country will not close its door to the global internet, but that cyber sovereignty is key in the country's vision of internet development.
Topics: world-politics, internet-technology, censorship, china, asia
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Adelaide twins RackaRacka head to US after huge YouTube success
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The 24-year-old Australian twins whose YouTube channel now has more than four million subscribers are leaving Adelaide for the US to capitalise on their skyrocketing popularity.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, short-film, human-interest, internet-culture, information-and-communication, internet-technology, media, pooraka-5095, adelaide-5000, sa, australia, united-states
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Facebook and Google pose 'clear and present threat' to civil society
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The chairman of Britain's largest commercial television company has warned that internet giants Facebook and Google pose a "clear and present danger" to civil society.
Topics: social-media, television, internet-technology, united-kingdom
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Bitcoin speculation 'betting' says expert Video
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The Australian's James Kirby says while there's valuable technology behind Bitcoin, the speculation on the currency itself is little better than 'betting'.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, currency, internet-culture, internet-technology, australia
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Telstra slashes $600m from earnings guidance after NBN delays
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NBN Co's delay of the national broadband network rollout has flow-on effects, and Telstra's earnings expectations have been cut by $600 million.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, australia
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Post #MeToo, women students in STEM search for safe workplaces
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Silicon Valley's treatment of women made headlines this year, and young women were watching.
Topics: science-and-technology, sexual-offences, women, internet-technology, australia
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Telstra boss blames NBN for HFC broadband woes
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Telstra's chief executive Andrew Penn says the company's HFC cables work just fine until the NBN makes "technology changes" to them and also admits the company cannot tell customers how fast their NBN internet will be until after it is connected.
Topics: telecommunications, internet-technology, australia
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