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Here Are Some Stats About How Australia Uses The Internet
Right on schedule! Moments after Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott ended their press conference about the Coalition’s broadband strategy, the Australian Bureau of Statistics dumped out a whole mess of data about how Australia uses the internet. How fast are you going now?
Go Get Your 7GB Of Free SXSW Music
There’s a lot of tech stuff going down at SXSW between talking shoes and the projection-effect pool tables and whathaveyou, but at the end of the day, music is still a huge part. A 7.39 GB part. And you can go grab it all for free right now.
Over 1.2 Billion Apps Downloaded Between Christmas And New Year
Between 25 and 31 December, the busiest period for app downloads all year, over 1.2 billion applications were downloaded onto mobile devices. That’s thanks to over 20 million iOS and Android devices being activated in the same period. ‘appy New Year! (Sorry.) [Flurry via Pocket Lint]
21 Free Programs To Keep Your Windows PC Healthy And Clean
When it comes to dealing with issues with your PC, apps that help you prevent problems before they occur are worth their file size in gold.
ACCC Launches iPhone App For Product Recalls
I was under the impression that product recalls were a rare thing. Turns out this isn’t the case — all you have to do is peruse the ACCC Recalls Australia iPhone app, launched recently by everyone’s favourite consumer watchdog, to see there’s quite a number of recalls in the wild.
Is Howard Stern Responsible For BitTorrent Super 8 Release?
As many of you know, it’s not uncommon for recent cinema releases to show up on torrent sites. What’s unusual here is that the watermark of the high-quality torrent Super 8 appears to point the finger at US satellite radio shock jock, Howard Stern.
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Australia ‘Holy Grail’ Territory For Music Industry
We’re often tagged as a nation of content pirates, but for the music industry it seems that data shows Australia to be a ‘holy grail’ nation. Like almost nowhere in the world, in 2009 Australians spent enough money on digital music that it more than covered the drop in spending on physical copies.
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