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Microsoft was successfully sued for copyright infringement by the developer of the Chinese fonts used in almost all versions of Windows.
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Does smoking void your Mac's warranty?
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A leading consumer blog has reported two instances in which Apple technicians refused to work on Macs that had been used in houses where people smoked. In both cases, Apple claimed that the smoking voided the Macs' warranties.

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Can't get no Nook (til next year)
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Barnes & Noble's announced that its new Nook e-reader is out of stock until 2010. The next projected shipping date is early next January.

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U.S. data protection company shoots up server
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To illustrate the risk of crashed systems, business continuity provider keepgoing.biz blasted a server with nine different heavy guns. And put it on tape.

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A study by third-party warranty provider SquareTrade has found that nearly one out of three laptops fail in the first three years, though a third of that total is due to accidents. Overall, Asus laptops have the fewest malfunctions, and HPs have the most.

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Burned skin healed with human embryonic stem cells
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Large Hadron Collider to restart (probably) Saturday
by William Atkins   
According to latest news from CERN, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are preparing to re-start the gigantic particle accelerator and collider on Saturday, November 20, 2009.

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uSocial is still marking out its territory
by David Heath   
In a remarkable feat of self-aggrandisement, uSocial proudly announces that Facebook is setting the lawyers on them.

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R18+ lobby form party to challenge SA's Atkinson
by James Riley   
A 30-year-old game development executive from Melbourne has taken South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson at his word and has formed a party to run candidates at the state election next March to push the R18+ classification issue.

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Smartpen gets mightier - with downloadable apps
by Stuart Corner   
Livescribe has launched, in beta, an online app store for its Pulse Smartpen - a digital recorder built into a pen that uses Anoto digital paper technology to link handwritten notes with recordings of spoken text.

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Telstra/NetComm home gateway to provide broadband access over NextG
by Stuart Corner   
Hot on the heels of Telstra's 100Mbps upgrade to its Melbourne HFC network come plans from the carrier to deliver broadband connections to homes over its NextG/HSPA+ network.

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Falling in love: the ViewSonic VNB101 netbook
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Viewsonic's attention to design and aesthetics is strongly reminiscent of a certain 'fruit' company.  I love it. 

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Google: openness has its limits
by Sam Varghese   
For all its talk of openness, there is just so much criticism that Google can take. Nothing else can account for the fact that it did not invite the reputed British tech publication, The Register, to the announcement it made about Chrome OS overnight.

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Qld gets new ‘free-flow’ tolling system
by Peter Dinham   
Thales Australia has partnered with Queensland Motorways to develop and implement Queensland’s first free-flow tolling system on the Logan Motorway, Gateway Extension and Gateway Bridge, which is now just over four months into operation after the contract was awarded to Thales in February last year.

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Collaboration leads to Visa investment in Emue Technologies
by Peter Dinham   
Visa Europe has taken a stake in Australian global authentication company, Emue Technologies, following collaboration over the past 18 months with Emue in the development of the Visa CodeSure solution which provides authentication and transaction security through what Visa says is a “unique payment card” with embedded display, microprocessor and numeric keypad.


 
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