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Media group NineMSN has adopted a solution from video cloud services provider Brightcove to deliver advertising-supported video experiences for more than 80 premium content sites, including Nine News, A Current Affair, The Today Show, The Australian Women's Weekly, Cleo, Woman's Day and Grazia.

Twitter has introduced sweeping changes to the way it looks today, making the service "more visual" in a bid to better compete with photo-sharing services like Instagram.

The Boston bombings back in April caused a flood of information and chatter on social media, but only 20% of tweets proved accurate according to new research.

Fox News is aiming to shed its reputation, or at least slightly alter it, with a flashy new Fox “News Deck” - a room full of “information specialists” who use 55-inch touch screen computers to monitor developing stories.

Channel Ten has officially launched its newest catch-up TV app, Tenplay, taking on rivals Channel 7 and ABC along with popular US services like Netflix and Hulu.

Facebook today took a big leaf out of Twitter's book, integrating hashtags and making them "clickable and searchable."

Belkin today announced the launch of a new portable speaker dock system for the iPad, the Thunderstorm Handheld Home Theater.

IDC has lowered its estimate of future ICT spending in Australia. The analyst firm is now predicting a 3.0% compound annual growth rate through to 2016.

The proposed media reforms drafted by Broadband Minister Senator Conroy and currently being rushed through Parliament could harm Internet investment if passed into law the peak Internet industry body in Australia warned today.

Local online IT news site ZDNet Australia has shut down, along with other local versions of  ZDNet.com around the world. Today, all subscribers to newsletters and other services from subsidiary sites, including zdnet.com.au, received an email informing them that the local sites will be absorbed by the parent dotcom site and the local URL now resolves to zdnet.com.

Fairfax Media, the only serious news print competitor to News Limited, has all but thrown in the towel to the online juggernaut, announcing a massive restructuring. In addition to cutting nearly 2000 jobs - many of them journalists - the two flagship broadsheet publications SMH and The Age will be reduced to tabloids and have digital paywalls introduced.

'Our work is done' is the message from the four people behind Perian, a widely used QuickTime add-on that expands the range of media types handled by Mac applications.

Search engine Bing has launched its first ever Australian marketing campaign – aptly named ‘Bing is for doing’ – using, as the campaign centrepiece, a series of mini documentaries and TVCs which tell stories of inspirational young Australians who get things done.

Australian-listed global digital advertising measurement company, Facilitate Digital, has appointed a team for its new digital rich media offering following the recent announcement of a partnership with Admotion to provide integrated display, rich media, search and performance media adserving to the Asia Pacific regional market for the first time.

Ninefold®, the Australian public cloud compute and cloud storage company, is offering business and individuals with an online presence the opportunity to generate revenue while they sleep, via the Ninefold Affiliate Program, now launched.

Hitachi Data Systems has appointed a principal consultant for its Australian and New Zealand media and entertainment business, as the company moves to take advantage of what it says are 'huge opportunities' in the ANZ regional market.

The technology sector is still the most trusted industry sector in Australia, as revealed in a global survey which found that last year people in countries around the world blamed their governments, more than any other institution, for the financial and political crisis they endured, including in Australia where only one-third of the general population trust the institution of government to do what is right.

Australian media group, Yahoo!7,  has boosted its management team with the appointment of former E*TRADE managing director, Stuart Sayer, in a newly created role of chief operating officer.

Barely two days into 2012 and the first report of an upcoming Apple event had arrived, mysteriously heralding not an iPad 3 nor possibly any iPhone 5, but instead a 'media related' announcement.

Coming Year Will See Data-Based Media Buying, More Contextual Ads and Better Use of Mobile Advertising