{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3276215a-23a8-4b04-bbfd-c0f7c71c7b64/63ad1501-5562-4a9e-b3f2-1f94075e2936?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Black Friday Bargains Galore","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6176c6f7b67d9b03b3f7eee3/6176c72791b757001963b668.png?height=200","description":"<p><a href=\"https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/netflix-to-face-local-content-quota-under-proposed-australian-tv-reforms-20201126-p56i9m.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix to face local content quota under proposed Australian TV reforms</a></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Netflix and other global streaming services could be forced to spend millions of dollars on Australian programs and films under major changes to media laws proposed by the federal government&nbsp;</li><li>Federal Communications and Arts Minister Paul Fletcher will launch a green paper with the proposed reforms today</li><li>Fletcher said the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic had reinforced the need for regulatory action to help the TV industry.</li><li>A 2017 inquiry&nbsp;recommended subscription streaming services invest 10 per cent of the revenues they earn in Australia in new local content</li><li>Free to Air Networks currently have to screen 55% locally made content</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/one-app-to-find-them-all-victoria-set-to-roll-out-safe-secure-qr-code-check-in-system-20201124-p56hln.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Coronavirus Victoria: State government-backed universal contact-tracing app that centralises QR code data collection set to be rolled out next week</a></p><p><br></p><ul><li>The Victorian state government is expected to launch a QR Code app next week, to help people check in at businesses and venues around the state</li><li>The app is being launched by Service Victoria and was custom built by Melbourne startup Two Bulls.</li><li>An anonymous source said “There's a huge advantage for the government because it means that the data is fed directly to the Department of Health and Human Services\"</li><li>This also means the data will not be available to the venues themselves, to use for marketing</li><li>The Victorian government's app has been trialled successfully by 100 venues, including Officeworks, which has been using the app to check in customers at five of its stores.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-foxconn-vietnam-apple-exclusive-idUSKBN2860VN\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Exclusive: Foxconn to shift some Apple production to Vietnam to minimise China risk</a></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Foxconn is moving some iPad and MacBook assembly to Vietnam from China at the request of Apple Inc</li><li>Apple is moving production to minimise the impact of a Sino-U.S. trade war.</li><li>This move has been expected for a while now, not just from Apple but from many large US based tech companies, that have the majority of production coming from China</li><li>Taiwanese manufacturers, wary of being caught up in the tit-for-tat trade war, have moved or are considering moving some production from China to countries such as Vietnam, Mexico and India.</li><li>The Vietnamese Foxconn plant currently manufactures Sony TVs</li><li>Foxconn is spending $1b to upgrade its plants in India, to produce more iPhones there&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/26/microsoft-productivity-score-feature-criticised-workplace-surveillance\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft productivity score feature criticised as workplace surveillance</a></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Microsoft has been criticised for rolling out a new feature to track users productivity in its Office 365 products</li><li>The reports show how often employees are using Office Products like Outlook, Word and Excel, and how often they’re in meetings, based on their calendar</li><li>I saw a glimpse of this at my old workplace, and really found it quite disgusting, and I’m glad to see this being reported.&nbsp;</li><li>“The word dystopian is not nearly strong enough to describe the fresh hellhole Microsoft just opened up,” tweeted David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of the office productivity suite Basecamp.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Ant’s Bargain bin - what have you found for black...","author_name":"Peter Wells"}