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LinuxToday managing editor Carla Schroder has described Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth as a "sexist twit" over some answers he gave at a Q and A held during an open week for the latest Ubuntu release.
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NSW residents must expect significant increases in traffic volumes next February when the Government stops charging tolls on the M4 motorway according to the firm that developed the electronic tags many motorists use to pay for using the motorway.
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UK publisher Titan Books has come out with four Wallace and Gromit comic books in iPhone app form. Three of the apps go for 99 cents US, while the fourth is free.
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Google is to acquire AdMob, a three year old mobile display ad technology provider, for $US750 million in stock, to enhance its expertise and technology in mobile advertising and to give its advertisers and publishers more choice in mobile advertising.
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been scooped up before the rest of the world by Australian gamers and jaws are already dropping.
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When you think of web giants in terms of market share of eyes on sites, the chances are you think of Google ruling the roost. Well you would be wrong, Microsoft pwns the Web!
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Ericsson has opened a TV centre in Melbourne to support customer deployments of IPTV and mobile TV services throughout the Asia Pacific region.
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Telstra has named Glenice Maclellan as acting head of Telstra Consumer to replace group managing director, David Moffatt, whose resignation was announced in October.
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The iPod Touch is an iPhone without the phone. This means the Touch is just as susceptible to the ikee virus as the iPhone.
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Both Telstra and Optus have selected US based specialist WMC Global to monitor mobile premium SMS services advertising and SMS message flows during services opt-in and participation to ensure these conform to their respective contract requirements and the industry code.
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Microsoft is playing things safe with the testing of the latest dashboard update for the Xbox 360 game console. Region specific, but containing Facebook and Twitter application integration, the public pre-release preview has been locked down for those over the age of 18.
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AAPT has upgraded its bundled broadband and home phone Anytime Unlimited plan to include free local and national fixed line calls.
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If you have jailbroken your iPhone, enabled SSH and neglected to change the default password, expect to get infected very soon!
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The founder of the KDE project, Matthias Ettrich, has received an award from the German government, recognising his contributions to free software.
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The Queenwood School for Girls in the Sydney suburb of Mosman has chosen Meru Networks' 802.11n wireless local area network (LAN) to be implemented in its senior school campus.
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Progress Software has appointed a new head of its Asia Pacific field operations responsible for managing a single integrated and customer-focused sales, services and support organisation.
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Novell's newly-announced Pulse – an integrated communication, authoring and social networking platform now has full integration with Google Wave.
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The latest round of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations have wrapped up in South Korea. Amongst other things, if successful in their present form, the internationally agreed rules would completely sideline the iiNet case currently before the Australian courts.
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Australia's third largest ISP iiNet chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby has admitted in Federal Court to dismissing AFACT allegations of iiNet customer copyright infringement, saying, "we were not going to do AFACT's job for them."
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Dell officially announced a new laptop, the Adamo XPS, which the company says is the world's thinnest. It's supposed to be available for the holiday shopping season.
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Internet security stalwart Kaspersky Labs has introduced Anti-Virus for Mac. The company is recommending it especially for mixed-platform environments, where it can keep Macs from hosting malware that might infect PCs.
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RIM has debuted its new Blackberry Bold 9700 smartphone in Australia and
New Zealand, with a raft of new features and a fresh design. But is it
truly revolutionary?
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Mixed-source technology company Novell has sacked between three and four percent of its staff in layoffs that could well be linked to another bad quarter.
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Global healthcare systems vendor, InterSystems, has implemented its Australian-developed software, TrakCare, for the States of Guernsey Health and Social Services Department (HSSD). The island-wide Electronic Health and Social Care Record (EHSCR) system has just gone live, replacing the island’s SWIFT Patient Administration System after 13 years of use.
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Internode is inviting its tech-savvy ADSL customers to participate in what it says will be an Australia-first technical trial of IPv6 running natively on its national ADSL broadband network.
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