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Union says Telstra lay offs attack customer service

Australian telecommunications and media company Telstra (ASX: TLS, NZX: TLS) is continuing with its plans to lay-off the 900 operational employees announced several weeks ago, according to a statement released today by the Communications Electrical Plumbing Union.
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Telstra to bring MasterChefs for iPhone 4 launch

Telstra is turning up the heat this Thursday night, with a "three-hat" line-up of former MasterChef series 2 contestants at Telstra's 400 George Street Store to celebrate the launch of the new iPhone 4.

'Facebook Questions' launches, lets you poll Facebook's 500 million users

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsFacebook today officially introduced a new feature called Facebook Questions, the social network's take on crowdsourced question and answer sites like Yahoo Answers, Quora, and Hunch.The new feature, still classified as a beta, lets users ask questions of the vast Facebook ...

Steve Ballmer has one more chance to save his job

By Joe Wilcox, BetanewsJune 29, 2010 may be remembered as the most important day in Steve Ballmer's career at Microsoft. Tomorrow, the company hosts its annual Financial Analyst Meeting, or FAM. How much Ballmer and his core leadership team spend concretely talking about the future, rather than the ...

Apple patches Safari AutoFill security flaw, adds extension support

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsDelivering on a promise the company made back in June, Apple on Wednesday released an update to Safari 5 which turns on extensions support akin to what browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer have been offering for years.In addition to the debut of these plugins, Apple a...

Firm says iPhones face challenge from Android handsets

Ovum, a technology industry consultancy, says that although iPhones will remain as the top-selling high-end smartphone brand in the next five years, it faces a strong challenge from handsets based on Google's Android platform.

Amazon, Facebook partner to make recommendations social

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsOnline retail giant Amazon on Tuesday launched a beta of new functionality intended to use data from Facebook to make recommendations. Once connected, the retailer would comb through the data in both your own profile and that of your friends.Amazon said it would share no person...

Wacom's Bamboo Touch offers its own brand of trackpad magic

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsOn Tuesday, Apple launched its second multi-touch peripheral, the Magic Trackpad, which elicited an immediate reaction from tech spectators. TechCrunch's MG Siegler declared it to be the harbinger of the end of the mouse era, and 90% of the more than 700 readers who answere...

IAG posts poor performance for fiscal year

Insurance Australia Group is the most recent insurance firm to report a poor performance for the previous fiscal year, as the season for reporting profit has turned sour for investors in insurance shares.

Talks address NBN skill shortfall

The Broadband Industry Training Network, a newly formed group, will convene in Melbourne tomorrow to address the lack of skilled technicians needed to construct the national broadband network.

Telstra gets fined for $18m

Telstra Corp. has been ordered by court to pay fines to the Commonwealth worth $18.55 million for violating the Trade Practices Act and its conditions for carrier licence by locking out other broadband companies from its telephone dealings.

Dell denies Streak tablet release date

Dell, the computer maker, says that its Streak tablet won't be released by the end of July. The announcement comes after the company erroneously posted an online message that says the device would be available for sale on its Web site by Wednesday.

Yahoo Japan switches to Google search engine

Yahoo Japan Corp., which runs Japan's leading Web portal, is switching to the Google search engine effective by yearend allowing the rival of its U.S. co-owner to dominate the world's third-largest online search market.

Ask.com returns to its roots with beta of new search technology

By Ed Oswald, BetanewsMost Internet veterans would associate the Ask brand with the familiar face of Jeeves, who you could ask a question and usually get the answer that you'd be looking for. However, as the Internet became more sophisticated, that method of search became dated.The change in our sea...

Epic 1.0 beta, new browser for Windows gives feel of browser-based OS

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsBangalore, India-based software startup Hidden Reflex has launched the beta of a new Web browser for Windows called Epic. The new browser is heavily focused on three areas: In-browser user multitasking, customization through plug-ins, and mashing up mobile Web content with ...

Torrentfreak criticizes anti-piracy research

Torrentfreak, a leading bittorrent Web site, criticizes an anti-piracy study for being completely "inaccurate" and biased towards searching for copyright infringing torrents.

Qualcomm remains committed to FLO TV and MediaFLO in light of possible sale

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsLast Week, the future of Qualcomm's FLO TV mobile TV business came into question after CEO Paul Jacobs said the chipmaker was "engaged in discussions with a number of partners," about what to do with the asset-rich service. The company recently gave Betanews some further in...

Mobile app CardStar smartly ties in with location-based services

By Tim Conneally, BetanewsBrick and Mortar retailers haven't quite figured out the perfect way to utilize location-based "check in" services like Foursquare, Gowalla, and Latitude, but mobile rewards app CardStar today presented a new option for retailers.Retailers like Starbucks, Domino's Pizza, Ch...

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