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What do you know about Brazil?
If you don’t know about the vibrant technology industry in Brazil, you should. In this blog, I’m going to be reporting on what’s happening across all areas of technology.
White House nominates venture capitalist as new FCC chairman
Venture capitalist and former CTIA CEO Tom Wheeler has been nominated to take over for Julius Genachowski at the FCC.
Who has your back?
What do Apple, AT&T, Myspace, Verizon and Yahoo! have in common? Little regard for protecting their customers from governmental abuse of power.
NSW govt seeks mobile management, WAN proposals
The NSW government's shared IT services department has begun looking for contractors that could provide and manage a fleet of mobile devices across the government, as well as standardise its WAN services.
Qld govt moves from CITEC to cloud-based services
The Queensland government will stop using its shared services provider CITEC and move toward cloud-based services after accepting the recommendations of an independent audit.
Australian Christian Lulz misses the point
The australianchristianlobby.org domain has been snapped up by a group that doesn't share the organisation's values, but there is another ACL website that we should be more concerned about.
Australian organisations unprepared for new privacy laws: McAfee
As the Australian Privacy Commissioner and Attorney-general warn businesses to prepare themselves for upchanges to the Privacy Act, McAfee has found that most don't even realise that there are changes or fines for non-compliance.
Prepare for Oz privacy reforms now: Attorney-general, privacy commissioner
With the changes to Australia's Privacy Act scheduled to take place in March 2014, the attorney-general and privacy commissioner have urged businesses to make necessary preparations to comply right now.
'Smart' $100 bills prepare for late release after paper-feed glitch: Images
An error with money printing press paper feeds in 2010 cost the government millions of dollars and delayed the debut of $100 bills that contain many innovative, new security features.
Transport trademark sees Australian removal requests to Google spike
In the last six months of 2012, there was a rise in the number of content-removal requests from Australian government agencies to Google.
Google reports more government removal requests 'than ever before'
Google's latest Transparency Report tracked sharp increases in removal requests from government agencies -- especially in Russia and Brazil.
Why an Internet sales tax is such an incomprehensibly bad idea
If the economy is to get stronger, charging consumers more when they're already struggling to afford goods and services is not a wise move. Even brick and mortars won't win. Here's why.
Special report: How managing presidential email is managing a president's legacy
In part 4 of our four-part special report, presidential scholar David Gewirtz (who wrote the book on White House email) explores how President Bush's email archives are going to be managed, and how presidential email is part of the legacy of each presidential administration.
Picking the brain of 'rock star CIO' Vivek Kundra
The former (and first) chief information officer of the United States offers industry rumination and leadership recommendations based on his experience in Washington, D.C.
India's biometric ID projects near 400M people milestone
Through the National Population Register and Unique Identification Authority of India, India's efforts to digitize the over a billion citizens' biometric records in a centralized system is now at the 394.1 million mark.