Category Archives: Opinion

Samsung Galaxy Tab retailers call Apple’s bluff

“Screw you, Apple,” is the gist of what Australian retailers such as dMavo are saying. And I really don’t blame them.

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Spotify Australia likely to launch soon

Spotify has been available in Europe for several years and launched in the U.S. a few months ago. So when is Australia going to be joining the party?

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Family HQ is Australian Facebook with privacy at its core

A social network which regards privacy as of the utmost importance? That will never work, surely.

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Pilgrim not investigating Facebook over tracking cookies

Facebook has just about got away with the tracking cookies privacy debacle. And Privacy Commissioner Tim Pilgrim has given them a pass on the issue.

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Has CERN pushed us all into a parallel universe? Nobel prize in gold please

Mad Scientists (as in unhappy scientists) around the world have been burning magnesium strips and heating up lead so it turns into a liquid after scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research found that neutrinos can travel faster than light, casting into doubt Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity.

First up I say nothing about understanding quantum physics, but having just read a book about parallel universes (The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene) I am an armchair expert in reading books about parallel universes.

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