SBS boss OK’d leak witch-hunt
SBS managing director Michael Ebeid personally authorised an IT witch-hunt last year.
Kelly urges Nine-Fairfax merger
Former Nine COO Simon Kelly says Nine, Fairfax Media and Southern Cross Media Group should pursue a “mega-merger”.
Equality must begin at home
It’s high time ‘working mothers’ made way for ‘working parents’, argues Anne-Marie Slaughter.
QUT race-row staffer ‘aggressive’
Alex Wood says he did not believe a Facebook post was ‘reasonably likely to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate’.
ABC denies gagging claim
The ABC denies gagging journalist Nick Ross after he quit, claiming he’d been prevented from writing about the NBN.
New Republic back on sale block
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes seeking a new owner for century-old magazine just four years after buying it.
Your favourite Bowie memories
We asked our social media followers for their favourite memory of David Bowie. Here’s what they had to say.
Mastering Go does not compute
One of Facebook’s newest initiatives is a bid to enable computers to play the ancient game of Go.
Step up, Barnsie
An outraged Jimmy Barnes leapt online yesterday following reports he’d star in I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here.
Be a player for Gaia, tree hugger
We have a new green global plan but there’s always someone who has to spoil the fun.
What will the champagne corks do?
Paris platitudes, captain’s calls, lessons from history and the ICAC details Fairfax likes.
Memo Arnie: Facts still matter
Former Californian governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is not interested in debating the science or the response to global warming.
Shooting wife ‘pledged to ISIS’
The FBI has said it is officially investigating the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California as an act of terrorism.
‘More to IT skills than Twitter’
Schools must do more to teach computer skills instead of leaving students to dabble with Twitter, Simon Birmingham says.
Memories are made like this
Can’t remember the days of the old school yard? Don’t worry: Facebook can — and will — remind you.
Hacked? Facebook will warn you
Facebook says it will notify users if it thinks their account has been targeted by government sponsored hacking.
Two days, two story stuff-ups
Fairfax follies plus blowhard Simon Chapman goes tilting at windmills — metaphorically, natch.
Allens keen for start-ups journey
Gavin Smith is spearheading an audacious new strategy to align his firm with the next Google or Facebook.
Regionals hit by Facebook backlash
A marketing blitz dubbed ’Save The Voices of Regional Australia’ has met with a hostile reaction on social media.
Buying a laptop? Get a desktop
The right desktop — or souped up workspace — can help you get more done comfortably than your lonely laptop.
LOL: just not funny anymore
A Facebook report suggests the use of ‘LOL’ has lost its cool. So what about ‘haha’, ‘hehe’ and emojis?
Rapper Elliphant never forgets
The Swede’s taste of success does not have her aiming for perfection.
Twitter boss blasts Facebook
Twitter’s president of global revenue Adam Bain says the social media giant can collaborate with television and newspapers.
News Corp attacks Facebook, Google
News Corp Australia has told its editors to renew their focus on printed newspapers to reinvigorate their agenda-setting position.
‘Die Pell’: The Age in hot water
The Age has been forced to apologise to Cardinal George Pell after its Facebook page urged his death.
Why you need a website
Unlike social media, websites are a permanent digital home for your life or business. And now anybody can build one.
Shaken, stirred and ready to bite
Abbott and Turnbull make a deal, uni makes meal of marking, Bingle blasts Sharpe, and Media Watch told where to stick advice.
Aftermath of our forgotten war
THE end of Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan raises questions about its impact on our service personnel.
Illusion confusion sparks dress blues
IS IT white and gold, or blue and black? Visual experts are as confused as the punters by “the dress” illusion that has gone viral.
I, Mac
BACK in September 2013, one of the few Coalition members not feeling the joy of victory was Queensland senator Ian Macdonald.
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