BBC Worldwide, the BBC commercial arm, has announced it’s launching a new premium channel on Foxtel, a subscription TV service in Australia. Foxtel already offers the UKTV channel, which screens [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

News Corporation is selling its 44 percent share in the Sky TV network in New Zealand in a move that will see it exit the business that it established in [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

Three American companies-Apple, Microsoft and Adobe-have been summoned by the Australian Parliament to explain why they charge higher prices Down Under than in other countries. The three companies were called [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

Last year the Australian government pledged to investigate why consumers in the country are forced to pay more for downloads, and that has led authorities to summon Apple, Microsoft and [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

A landmark decision in Australia has found that Google was not responsible for misleading advertising that was run on its search site. The high court decision upheld an appeal from [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

Music identification and tagging service Shazam has announced a new office in Australia as it looks to ramp up its efforts in the TV advertising space across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

Kim Dotcom is so confident in the security system at Mega, the newly launched file storage service, that the New Zealand-based German is offering a bounty of €10,000 (approx. US$13,580) [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

That was quick. On Wednesday, the first third-party search engine for Kim Dotcom’s Mega showed up on the scene, quickly climbing to the top of Hacker News. On Thursday, the [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

Mega on Tuesday responded to industry criticism that its security features are not up to snuff. The company largely dismissed most of the allegations, though it did concede in some [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>

Kim Dotcom on Thursday used Twitter to reveal some interesting new tidbits in regards to his upcoming Mega service, which will be hosted at the New Zealand-based domain Mega.co.nz. Two [...] Continue reading... Leave your Comments Off >>