Show Notes

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK Fair Work upholds sack for worker’s Facebook diatribe computer technician Damian O’Keefe was dismissed after posting on Facebook last year that he “wonders how the f . . k work can be so f . . king useless … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK Skype you later: phone calls from Gmail finally rolled out to Australia and internationally http://apcmag.com/skype-you-later-phone-calls-from-gmail-finally-rolled-out-to-australia-and-internationally.htmGoogle enabled calling mobiles and landlines directly from within Gmail for US and Canadian users, and this week expanded this feature to Gmail users … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK Westpac vows to rectify IT glitch that stopped salary and welfare payments http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/westpac-warns-customers-they-may-experience-payment-delays-in-new-it-glitch/story-e6frgakx-1226101914294 WESTPAC Bank has vowed to rectify payment problems by the end of the day after customers were deprived of their salaries and welfare benefits due … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK 2nd Gen Intel Core MacBook Air released from $1,099 Apple today announced its new revamped MacBook Air range with second-gen Intel Core CPUs, on order from today and available in store tomorrow. Apple is claiming an up-to-2.5X performance … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK Australia may follow as Amazon.com reignites push into new countries ONLINE shoppers could see Amazon.com set up shop locally if Australia is part of the internet giant’s fresh assault on international markets. Amazon’s web-services arm is poised to … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK ACCC fines Optus $5.26m for misleading broadband internet allowance advertising campaign OPTUS has been ordered to pay a fine of $5.26 million after losing a case about misleading advertising. the court ruled there was an “essential vice” in … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK Unfairly sacked for online chat bloke had been employed by Outdoor Creations, in Melbourne. He had resigned and was about to leave the job when he was abruptly sacked for more than ”3000 transactions on a chat line … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOKMozilla Delivers New Version of Firefox – First Web Browser to Support Do Not Track on Multiple Platforms The latest version of Firefox includes more than 1,000 improvements and performance enhancements that make it easier to discover and use … Read More

GLENN’S NOTEBOOK Apple unveils bargain-priced Mac OS X Lion as $31.99 download-only app Lion, will be available next month as a download from the Mac App Store, priced at $31.99. Lion, also known as Mac OS X 10.7, is the … Read More