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International Games Gurus: secured for Victorian symposium
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

Minister for Innovation, Services and Small Business Louise Asher announced today that three of the world s most influential games developers will headline a games symposium for Australian games developers in June 2012.

NBN: industry paper sinks the slipper to sighs of relief
ZDnet
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

Time to call an electron an electron, and a clown a clown as Libs struggle with the truth on the national broadband network.

NBN: nerds speak to ordinary folks in bush
ABC
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

How do you explain undreamed of possibilities to someone not in your head? Good luck.

Quickflix: Significant concerns about access to content
Quickflix
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

The Commerce Commission today announced the completion of its investigation into Igloo, the joint venture between TVNZ and Sky. It concluded that Igloo was unlikely to reduce competition in the pay TV market, despite concerns also being raised about Sky`s entry into the free-­‐to-­‐air market.

Playpen: dum-dums for the dimmy as parent goes ballistic
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

Parent is very angry about kid`s mocking post on Facebook. Parent makes video. Parent lives in Texas. Parent has dum-dum bullets. Kid might want to flee to Mexico.

T-Box Future: Telstra to Foxtel?
El Reg
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (U.K.)

Key people leave as Telstra seems to exit the IPTV market. Telstra has denied this since, and debate is taken up here.

Creative Australia Fellowships: multidisciplinary gets you into a screen tangle
SMH
Wednesday 16 May, 2012 (Australia)

Australia Council supports some of the most interesting edges of digital creativity. Will the remote controlled helicopter deliver more stable images and higher resolution? Could be cool.

Pirate Pays: Microsoft backs Russian killsite
BBC
Tuesday 15 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

With money from Microsoft, Pirate Pays aims to confuse torrent sites by swarming them. Haven`t they been doing this already, with bogus torrents?

US Pickups: `Review` gets green light from Comedy Central
SMH
Monday 14 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

As the US commissioning season gets under way, Comedy Central has given a thumbs up to a version of Review With Myles Barlow.

Yahoo!: CEO quits over fake biography scandal
iTNews
Monday 14 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson has agreed to step down from the role immediately, following a week of controversy surrounding a biography that falsely claimed he had a computer science degree.

INPUT 2012: in which the net makes conventional television seem inadequate
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Screen Hub
Monday 14 May, 2012 (Australia)

“Is the web the future of documentaries?” A prospect to make the blood of documentary filmmakers freeze in their veins. But this is a conference about public broadcasting, which has its own rules so the subtext is about institutional culture, the net and new ways of embracing points of view.

DOC Lab: opens doors for 2012
Screen Hub
Friday 11 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

As the Documentary Edge Festival heads into its closing weekend in Auckland ahead of its Wellington opening next week, the DOC Lab, an incubator for transmedia projects (drama or documentary) has opened its call for applications.

NBN: opposition criticism of the budget and some furphies
Business Spectator
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Australia)

Shadow communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has been complaining that the budget treats the national broadband network as an asset. Here`s a nice take on what would happen if it didn`t.

Optus: will appeal TV Now decision to High Court
Business Spectator
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Australia)

Optus will appeal the recent Federal Court decision which prevented its customers from recording and watching free TV content on delay on their mobile phones to the High Court.

Odin`s Eye: local sales agent to double business
Screen Hub
Saturday 12 May, 2012 (Australia)

Sydney-based Odin`s Eye Entertainment (OEE) has a significant boost to business having signed an agreement with Warner Bros. Digital Distribution (WBDD) for electronic sell through (EST) and video on demand (VOD) distribution of its films via cable, satellite and broadband platforms in North America.

INPUT 2012: Unconditional Love, Touch Screens and a garage in Finland full of magic circles
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Screen Hub
Friday 11 May, 2012 (Australia)

Public service broadcasters do children`s content - and are trusted to provide it because they are not trying to sell things to kids that parents will have to pay for. Now take all that and put it online - and the international landscape gets very inventive.

NBN: $20 million to market the network, with some help from the ABC
Computer World Australia
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (Australia)

The 2012 Federal budget has allocated $20 million to market the NBN to the public, while the ABC will also chip in with a free portal for students.

NBN: would cost $2 billion to cancel
Gizmodo
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (Australia)

Figures in the 2012 Federal budget have revealed that it would cost a Coalition government $2 billion to cancel the project.

Quickflix: Sky deals hinder UFB
NBR
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (New Zealand)

Quickflix argues thar Sky`s exclusive content deals will prevent competition in and uptake of UFB.

Dotcom: reality star in the making
THR
Wednesday 9 May, 2012 (U.S.A.)

Kim Dotcom`s reality show plans were scuppered by his arrest.

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