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Jobs Email: God speaks to Murdoch weenie, leads to legal horror
All Things D
Monday 20 May, 2013 (Australia)

The US Department of Justice is suing Apple over eBook price-fixing. Here is a complete email from Jobs to James Murdoch, and the notes it created, which the government claims supports it case. That is disputable; the email also shows the language and informality and thought processes of the late, great industry titan.

Budget 2013: Scroz and co in IT context
IT News
Friday 17 May, 2013 (Australia)

Yes, content generation does count as IT. In this complete list of IT measures in the last budget, we can see just how little is spent by the Feds on content generation specifically for the net.

Playpen: video reveals horrible truth of campaign to make Iron Sky 2
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Screen Hub
Thursday 16 May, 2013 (Australia)

Given that Indiegogo is doomed to grow until it becomes ferally competitive, it is not surprising that the Iron Sky gang is mutating the sizzle reel into something. . um.. just um.. that`s it.. UM.

NBN: budget scales up local government funding
ZDNet
Wednesday 15 May, 2013 (Australia)

"In the 2013-14 Budget released on Tuesday, the government announced that it would expand the Digital Local Government program, adding 14 new local councils that will be taking part in the program over the next two years at a cost of AU$5.7 million."

Quickflix: launches on Windows 8
iTWire
Monday 13 May, 2013 (Australia)

Online movie streaming outfit Quickflix has launched its app for Windows 8.

BBC: YouView IPTV platform has uptake problems
The Guardian
Monday 13 May, 2013 (U.K.)

The BBC`s YouView IPTV platform, touted as the upgrade pathway for its Freeview service, is having problems gaining traction in the market.

Megaupload: legal team asks court to dismiss case
TorrentFreak
Friday 10 May, 2013 (U.S.A.)

In yet another twist, Kim Dotcom`s legal team has asked the US courts to dismiss the case against Megaupload, until it is known whether the defendants can be extradited from New Zealand.

Games: roundup
Screen Hub
Friday 10 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Dates are set for the 2013 NZ Game Developers Conference, PikPok`s Into the Dead achieves world domination, Ninja Kiwi grows its relationships in Scotland and a NZOA-funded game hits the beats.

High Court: Google not responsible for lying advertisers
Screen Hub
Friday 10 May, 2013 (Australia)

Much as we would like to lynch some of the sponsored link creators, it is pretty fair to say that Google can`t police them. The High Court now agrees.

Woodville: web series goes live next week
Woodville
Friday 10 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

The first episode of the NZ on Air funded web series Woodville launches to the public next week.

Megaupload: Dotcom accused of non-existent crime
News.MSN
Wednesday 8 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

Kim Dotcom`s legal team has released a whitepaper arguing that the Megaupload founder and his colleagues have been accused of crimes which are, well, not actually crimes in the US.

OMSA: set for July launch
OMSA
Wednesday 8 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

New Zealand’s major radio and television broadcasters confirmed the “Go Live” date of 1 July for the new Online Media Standards Authority “OMSA”, which will oversee online news and current affairs content standards.

Spectrum Sale: old analogue spectrum sold for $2b song
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Screen Hub
Tuesday 7 May, 2013 (Australia)

While the screen sector vacates all that old-fashioned spectrum to broadcast digitally, Telstra, Optus and TPG bought in to provide high speed wireless broadband. With $2b out the door to the government, they will now be plotting new ways to make the rest of us pay.

Hive: final call for entries to Hive Production Fund on Monday May 13th
Tuesday 7 May, 2013 (Australia)

An initiative of the Adelaide Film Festival, in partnership with the Australia Council for the Arts, Screen Australia and ABC Arts, the HIVE Production Fund supports screen based projects from Australian artists and filmmakers in a true convergence of arts and film practise. Entries CLOSE NEXT MONDAY.

Helen Mirren: battle of the Queens
London Telegraph
Tuesday 7 May, 2013 (Australia)

Helen Mirren goes berko at a rude group of drummers promoting a gay event. They were ruining a performance at the Gielgud Theatre in London. At the time, Ms Mirren was dressed as the Queen.

XMediaLab: back after ten year Odyssey
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Screen Hub
Friday 3 May, 2013 (Australia)

The X Media Lab is now ten years old, has reinvented itself, and is testing some new ideas with a new iteration at Vivid Sydney. Always meta, the travelling thinkfest has now gone meta-meta, loaded with intercultural experience. It is deliberately appealing to a much broader arts and cultural community.

NZ On Air: online rights and wrongs
Screen Hub
Friday 3 May, 2013 (New Zealand)

NZOA has released the responses to its call for submissions on its discussion paper about online rights for funded TV programmes, along with its own commentary and information on the next steps.

Quickflix: customers down, churn up
Computer World
Wednesday 1 May, 2013 (Australia)

Online streaming and DVD hire company Quickflix lost almost 6,500 customers last quarter, according to its statement to the ASX.

Game of Thrones: Why Australia is still a monarchy
Wired
Wednesday 1 May, 2013 (Australia)

Put the Queen on a magazine cover in Australia and some weird colonial switch deep in the collective reptile mind gets activated, and the publisher sells a motza. Is it any surprise that we lead the world in illegal downloads of Game of Thrones. "We have not yet begun to fight", roared enraged US ambassador Jeffrey L. Bleich...

Pirate Bay: Swedish authorities move to seize domain names
TorrentFreak
Wednesday 1 May, 2013 (Sweden)

Swedish authorities have moved to seize The Pirate Bay`s local domain names - a few days after the BitTorrent site had switched to Icelandic domains.

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