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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
The State Government of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, is proposing to offer free wi-fi wireless broadband in Sydney’s CBD and a handful of other city centres. This sounds very nice, but who is paying for it, and what quality of service can anyone expect?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006 |
A new online report claims that 9 out of 10 emails sent out since June 2006 are spam, and come from criminal gangs out to get your money either through some kind of scam, be it for pain killing drugs or pills to enhance your sexual prowess. No wonder there’s been so much spam lately!
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Tuesday, 28 November 2006 |
A BBC survey shows that people are watching more online TV that ever, finding that when there’s nothing to watch on TV, there’s often something worth watching online instead.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Monday, 27 November 2006 |
Just as Universal and Reeltime.TV have started up a legal downloadable movie service that lets you burn download direct to DVD, Australian online games retailer Gamehead.com.au is letting users who download games burn them direct to CDs or DVDs in an Australian first – but there’s a catch.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
Mirroring a similar program in the UK, Canada’s major ISPs have banded together to support ‘Project Cleanfeed Canada’ to block child porn sites from access by Canadians. It’s a good start, but there’s still a long way to go.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
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Remember when Google boasted of over 8 billion pages in its index, and then the tit-fot-tat skirmishes with Yahoo on whose index was biggest? Now a figure on the number of sites online has been released, and it’s in the millions, not billions. What gives?
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by Stan Beer
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Monday, 16 January 2006 |
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Eastman Kodak Company and internet phone company Skype, have released what they call the latest innovation in digital storytelling ― Kodak Photo Voice. The new service gives consumers the ability to hold internet phone conversations around the globe whilst sharing their photos online.
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by Stan Beer
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Sunday, 11 September 2005 |
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Security vendor, GFI Asia Pacific, has released an access control plug-in for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server to allow real time monitoring of the sites users are browsing and the files they are downloading. |
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