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Does smoking void your Mac's warranty? E-mail
by Jake Widman   
Saturday, 21 November 2009
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.

 
Can't get no Nook (til next year) E-mail
by Jake Widman   
Saturday, 21 November 2009
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.

 
U.S. data protection company shoots up server E-mail
by Jake Widman   
Saturday, 21 November 2009
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.

 
Laptop FAIL: 31% in 3 years, anyway E-mail
by Jake Widman   
Saturday, 21 November 2009
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.

 
R18+ lobby form party to challenge SA's Atkinson E-mail
by James Riley   
Friday, 20 November 2009
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.

 
Atkinson to R18+ games lobby: See you at next election E-mail
by James Riley   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has thrown down the gauntlet to adult games advocates, challenging the R18+ lobby to run a candidate and try to unseat him at the State election next March.

 
EU a distant comfort for iiNet in AFACT case E-mail
by James Riley   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
The legal arguments in the iiNet-AFACT case being heard in the Federal Court in Sydney echo those that saw the creation recent 'internet rights' reforms in the European Union – and both sides have been watching these developments with interest.

 
The Ten Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade E-mail
by David Heath   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Earlier today, the organisers of the Webby Awards announced their selection of the most influential moments on the Internet in the past decade.

 
Telstra goes 100Mbps on cable; trials set top box E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Telstra has upgraded its Melbourne HFC network to provide 100Mbps download capability. The carrier is also introducing its own set-top box for free-to-air and BigPond TV channels.

 
Microsoft loses copyright case in Beijing E-mail
by David Heath   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Microsoft was successfully sued for copyright infringement by the developer of the Chinese fonts used in almost all versions of Windows.

 
Citrix offers ‘pay-as-you-grow’ pricing E-mail
by Peter Dinham   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Citrix is claiming ‘groundbreaking’ new ‘Pay-as-You-Grow’ on-demand pricing for its Citrix NetScaler line of application acceleration, load balancing and web security appliances, which it says allows its customers to buy only what they need today, knowing they can easily scale up their network as demand grows with a simple software license upgrade.

 
Beware the new moon, cybercrims are on the prowl E-mail
by Peter Dinham   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Security software company, PC Tools, says it has identified a new way cyber criminals are trying to prey on the fans of the Twilight series with anticipation of the upcoming “New Moon” movie, which comes out tomorrow, reaching a fever pitch. 

 
CIO Tony Clasquin abandons Gartner and BankWest E-mail
by Beverley Head   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Tony Clasquin couldn’t have chosen a more public forum in which to trumpet the news that he was leaving his position as CIO of BankWest than the Gartner Symposium currently being held in Sydney which has over 900 of Australia’s leading IT managers attending.
 
AARNet takes large files to the cloud E-mail
by Peter Dinham   
Thursday, 19 November 2009
The not-for profit Australian Academic and Research Network – AARNet - has managed the transfer of files of up to 55 gigabytes in customer trials of its new web-based large file transfer sevice, CloudStor, which was launched on the market today and which allows the secure electronic transfer of virtually any file type regardless of size.

 
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