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by Jake Widman
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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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by Jake Widman
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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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by Jake Widman
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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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by Jake Widman
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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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by William Atkins
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A French study has shown that human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can be potentially used to produce skin grafts for people with large, serious burns.
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by William Atkins
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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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by David Heath
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In a remarkable feat of self-aggrandisement, uSocial proudly announces that Facebook is setting the lawyers on them.
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by James Riley
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by Stuart Corner
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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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by David Heath
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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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by Sam Varghese
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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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by Peter Dinham
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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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by Peter Dinham
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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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