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Australia’s first digital city – Parramatta, NSW
Not only is New South Wales getting a sizable smart grid covering 50,000 homes, it’s also the home of what will become Australia’s first digital city. Namely, Parramatta, 23 km west of Sydney.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Australia, Digital City, New South Wales, NSW, Parra Connect, Parramatta, Smart Grid, WiFi
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Intel, Carlos Slim air views on NBN and its budget
It isn’t just the Australian politicians and public that have an opinion to express on the NBN. As recent comments from chipmaker Intel and telecommunications billionaire Carlos Slim clearly show.
Facebook Places lands in Australia
A month after it launched in the U.S., Facebook Places has landed in Australia. Although why you’d want to use it is a mystery to me.
Should prisoners be allowed on Facebook?
Should prisoners be allowed on Facebook? The NSW government doesn’t think they should, and is attempting to do something to prevent the families and friends of serving prisoners from setting up and managing Facebook accounts for them.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Facebook, Facebook Prisoners, New South Wales, NSW, Phil Costa, SuperMax
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Stallman wants an end to the ‘global war on sharing’
Richard Stallman, GNU founder and free software activist, wants to see an end to the “global war on sharing.” But are his ambitions for how this can be achieved pie-in-the-sky thinking rather than based in reality?
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged File Sharing, GNU, Open source, Richard Stallman, Stallman, World Computer Congress
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17-year-old Australian kid blamed for Twitter ‘onMouseOver’
It’s almost always precociously gifted teenage geeks that are behind these types of incidents. But they’re rarely from Australia.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged onMouseOver, Pearce Delphin, Twitter, Twitter Hack, XSS Hack
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ACCI backs National Broadband Plan… begrudgingly
The Australian Chamber of Commerce (ACCI) believes the NBN will be good for the country. But like everyone else it has concerns over the high cost of the project.
Posted in Internet, Lead article
Tagged ACCI, Malcolm Turnbull, Meet The Press, National Broadband Plan, NBN, Wayne Swan
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Optus in court over ‘supersonic’ 64Kbps Broadband
Should a telecommunications company be able to advertise its Broadband as “supersonic” when its speeds could be as low as 64Kbps?
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged ACCC, Optus, Optus Broadband, Optus Supersonic
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Coalition opposing NBN plan to harm Labor government
I guess it was too much to expect the Coalition to remain quiet in opposition, but I didn’t expect them to come out fighting either this quick or this dirty.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Coalition Party, Labor Government, Labor Party, Malcolm Turnbull, National Broadband Plan, NBN, Tony Abbott
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UQ ‘Meet Eater’ garden feeds on Facebook interaction
Is it possible to sustain life via social networking sites? UQ wants to find out, and it’s asking people all over the world to take part in this experiment.
Australian atheist makes religious point on YouTube
The ‘International Burn A Koran Day’ thankfully never materialized. But one Australian atheist decided to make a point by smoking pages from both the Koran and the Bible in a video posted to YouTube.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Alex Stewart, Atheism, Atheist, Bible, Koran, Koran Vs. Bible, Terry Jones, youtube
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Australians love online video, especially YouTube
Australia, like the rest of the world, is watching online video in increasingly large numbers and for longer periods of time.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Australia, Australians, Channel Nine, Facebook, Justin.tv, Microsoft, NineMSN, online video, Ustream, youtube
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NBN to go ahead with labor clinging on to power
With Labor clinging on to power after the closest Australian election in decades, the NBN (National Broadband Network) is a go. For better or worse.
Australian court bans PS3 hack – open-source PS Groove released
Rest in peace PS Jailbreak. Long live PS Groove. And the latter is free and open-source. Making it more valuable to gamers, and much more damaging to Sony.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Playstation 3, Playstation 3 Hack, PS Groove, PS Jailbreak, PS3, PS3 Hack, Sony
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Another Australian politician gets caught out by technology
What is it with politicians and technology? They either don’t know how to use it or even what it is, taking a leaf out of judges’ books in being ignorant to the real world, or they get caught out by it.
Posted in Internet, Technology news
Tagged Australian Politicians, Fred Nile, New South Wales, NSW, Paul McLeay
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Telcos dismiss fiber-only NBN, propose 4G network coverage
While most of the country has been discussing the two possibilities for improving broadband coverage in Australia, a third way has emerged. And it’s being proposed and backed by a host of telecommunications entrepreneurs.
Australian election result leaves NBN plans in the balance
The future of the NBN, and Australia’s telecommunications network as a whole, is firmly in the balance thanks to the result of the federal election.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged Australia, Australian Election, Labor, Liberal, National Broadband Network, NBN
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How Broadband could decide 2010 Australian election
With Australia heading for the polls to decide who represents the country in the federal election, technology, more specifically Broadband, could play a key part in deciding who wins.
Posted in Internet, Lead article, Technology news
Tagged 2010 Election, Australia, Australian Election, Broadband, Julia Gillard, NBN, Tony Abbott
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Google adds the ability to search by license within images
If you own a website or blog, then chances are at some point you’ve needed to hit the interwebs to search for an image to use on it. If you’re using an image for commercial purposes, then you need to have the rights to use it from the original creator. Previously Google Image Search would pull all the images on the web up in a search, now its added a filter to help you see only pictures you can actually use.
Where to watch TV on the web
Television as we know it is becoming more and more prevalent on the web. If you miss your favorite program when it originally airs and didn’t set your DVR or VCR to record it, chances are you can still catch it a few days (or insome cases just a few hours) later on the world wide web. If you’re new to watching television on your computer, here are some of the best sites to catch all your favorite television shows.