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Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

Posted by on May 24, 2013 No comments

lukehopewell1 writes “‘Untraceable, undetectable, cheap and freely available.’ That’s how Australian police have described the 3D-printable gun known as The Liberator today as they announce that they will be seeking to make the download, construction and possession of these weapons illegal. In their tests, Police printed the 15 parts required to assemble The Liberator in 27 hours and assembled it within 60 seconds with a firing pin fashioned out of a steel nail. The two guns were test fired into a block of resin designed to simulate human muscle, and the first bullet penetrated the resin block up to 17 centimeters. NSW Police Ballistics division confirm that it would be a fatal wound if pointed at someone.”

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Australian Government Backdoor Internet Filter Shuts Down 1,000 Websites

Posted by on May 17, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “The Australian government has secretly censored over 1,000 web sites through a hitherto-unused internet censorship law. In April the Melbourne Free University was blocked without any explanation. Section 313 of the Telecommunications Act allows the government to close web sites without warning to “uphold laws, protect public revenue and safeguard national security”. This is open to abuse as Australians only have limited free speech rights which already make it difficult for the press to report corruption.”

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In Australian Town, Public CCTV Off Over Privacy Concerns

Posted by on May 5, 2013 No comments

freddienumber13 writes “The CCTV cameras operated by the local government in the country town of Nowra, NSW (Australia) have been turned off following an order by the Administrative Decisions Tribunal. The local government is crying because it believes that it is losing an effective method in combating crime in public. Locals however are rejoicing that they are no longer being recorded whilst walking down the street.”

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Australian Bureau of Statistics Doesn’t Like Direct Downloads of Census Data

Posted by on April 17, 2013 No comments

Bismillah writes “The ABS has released the census data for the country under a Creative Commons license, but instead of making it easy to get, they’ve put in Javascript to obfuscate file paths and more. All commented in the source code of course.” At first glance, it’s an attempt to get people to pay $ 250 for a DVD with the data instead.

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After raid, Australian hacker fears possible arrest

Posted by on February 27, 2013 No comments

Dylan Wheeler, a computer security and gaming enthusiast who lives near Perth in Western Australia, could very well be in a lot of trouble.
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Australian court assigns second judge to Apple-Samsung trial

Posted by on February 26, 2013 No comments

The patent trial in Australia between Apple and Samsung Electronics has become so complex that a second judge has been assigned to the case.
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Australian Federal Court Rules For Patent Over Breast Cancer Gene

Posted by on February 15, 2013 No comments

Bulldust writes “Federal Court in Australia has ruled in favor of US biotechnology company Myriad Genetics enabling them to continue to hold the patent over the so-called breast cancer gene BRCA1. The same patent is also being reconsidered by the US Supreme Court in the current session. From the article: ‘Federal court Justice John Nicholas has ruled that a private company can continue to hold a patent over the so-called breast cancer gene BRCA1, in a decision that has devastated cancer victims.The decision is the first in Australia to rule on whether isolated genes can be patented, and will set a precedent in favor of commercial ownership of genetic material.’”

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Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes

Posted by on February 11, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “Live outside the U.S.? Tired of paying huge local price markups on technology products from vendors such as Apple, Microsoft and Adobe? Well, rest easy, the Australian Government is on the case. After months of stonewalling from the vendors, today the Australian Parliament issued subpoenas compelling the three vendors to appear in public and take questions regarding their price hikes on technology products sold in Australia. Finally, we may have some answers for why Adobe, for example, charges up to $ 1,400 more for the full version of Creative Suite 6 when sold outside the U.S.”

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Why Australian Telco’s Plan To Shape BitTorrent Traffic Won’t Work

Posted by on February 5, 2013 No comments

New submitter oztechmuse writes “Australian Telco Telstra is planning to trial shaping some BitTorrent traffic during peak hours. Like all other telcos worldwide, they are facing increasing traffic with a long tail of users: 20% of users consume 80% of bandwidth. The problem is, telcos in Australia are already shaping BitTorrent traffic as a study by Measurement Lab has shown and traffic use continues to increase. Also, the 20% of broadband users consuming the most content will just find a different way of accessing the content and so overall traffic is unlikely to be reduced.”

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Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin

Posted by on February 4, 2013 No comments

First time accepted submitter ras writes “The Reserve Bank of Australia did some investigation into the accuracy of their economic predictions — the ones they use to run the country — with less than flattering results. ’70 per cent of the RBA’s forecasts for underlying inflation for the year ahead were close to the mark, but its predictions of economic growth were less accurate, and its unemployment rate estimates no better than [chance] … The Reserve Bank employs numbers of people on very high pay and what they’re admitting now is that their — all of this so-called science — has produced nothing more than what a roll of the dice could produce.’”

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‘Bankrupt’ Australian Surgeon Sues Google For Auto-Complete

Posted by on January 23, 2013 No comments

An anonymous reader writes “Australian surgeon Guy Hingston is suing Google in the U.S. for ‘auto-complete’ defamation. Typing in his name brings up ‘Guy Hingston bankrupt’ in the auto-complete. The association seems to have come about because Hingston purchased an aviation group CoastJet which went bankrupt two-and-a-half years later. Hingston himself was also bankrupted. Hingston claims this association has cost him customers and is suing Google for $ 75k, plus court costs. Google has often found itself the target of litigation over auto-complete searches. Are auto-complete results even useful? Should Google be policing the auto-complete suggestions?”

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Australian Scientists Discover Potential Aids Cure

Posted by on January 18, 2013 No comments

smi.james.th writes “Several sites report that Australian researcher David Harrich and his team have potentially discovered a way to stop HIV becoming AIDS and ultimately cure the disease. From the article: ‘What we’ve actually done is taken a normal virus protein that the virus needs to grow, and we’ve changed this protein, so that instead of assisting the virus, it actually impedes virus replication and does it quite strongly.’ This could potentially hail one of modern medicine’s greatest victories.”

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Australian Spy Agency Seeks Permission To Hack Third-Party Computers

Posted by on January 13, 2013 No comments

New submitter LordLucless writes “ASIO, Australia’s spy agency, is pushing for the ability to lawfully hijack peoples’ computers — even if they are not under suspicion of any crime. They seek the ability to gain access to a third party’s computer in order to facilitate gaining access to the real target — essentially using any person’s personal computer as a proxy for their hacking attempts. The current legislation prohibits any action by ASIO that, among other things, interferes with a person’s legitimate use of their computer. Conceivably, over-turning this restriction would give ASIO the ability to build their own bot-net of compromised machines. Perhaps inevitably, they say these changes are required to help them catch terrorists.”

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Australian university to issue 11,000 iPads next year

Posted by on December 20, 2012 No comments

Initiative is part of a curriculum overall at the University of Western Sydney that will stress a “blended learning model.” [Read more]


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Australian police discourage use of Apple maps app after rescues

Posted by on December 10, 2012 No comments

Police say they have rescued a half dozen motorists in recent weeks who were using the app to navigate to a city only to find themselves stranded in the wilderness of a national park. [Read more]


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Australian Police Warn Against Apple Maps, Citing “Potentially Life Threatening” Misdirection

Posted by on December 10, 2012 No comments

AppleMapsMilduraErrorPolice in Victoria have urged motorists to avoid the use of Apple Maps, warning that faulty directions on the much-criticized app has left motorists stranded in the Australian outback for up to 24 hours without food or water.

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Australian scientists undiscover small Pacific island

Posted by on November 25, 2012 No comments

With the modern age of satellite mapping and Google Maps, you might expect that the map of Earth’s landmass, including islands, around the globe is correctly and accurately mapped. However, it appears that errors in mapping do occur as evidenced by a group of geologists from the University of Sydney who undiscovered a small Pacific

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Australian Govt Pledges Action On Google Tax Evasion

Posted by on November 23, 2012 No comments



daria42 writes “Looks like Google’s habit of funneling billions of dollars in revenue through its Irish and Bermuda subsidiaries continues to attract unfavorable government attention globally. France has already announced plans to take on the search giant’s tax evasion habits, and the Australian Government, to which Google paid just $ 74,000 in tax last year despite having Australian revenues close to $ 1 billion, has now confirmed plans to do the same.”

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Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN

Posted by on September 25, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes “It’s a well known fact that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is a fan of Australia and now we know why. He supports a national broadband network — a scheme being rolled out by the Australian government to provide fibre ‘for everyone’ — so much he’s applying for citizenship, the Australian Financial Review reports. You can be assured that he’s not giving up his American citizenship though, he told Brisbane radio.”

And for U.S. citizens: “Despite his status as a technology icon, Mr Wozniak said he was not connected to a broadband service in his home in California, classing the options available to him as a ‘monopoly.’ ‘There’s only one set of wires to be on and I’m not going to pull strings to get them to do something special for me,’ he said …. ‘I’ve sat with our FCC commissioner and told him that story in his office, but it’s not going to happen. We just don’t have the political idea to bring broadband to all the people who are 1 kilometer too far away.’”

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Australian Smart Meter Data Shared Far and Wide

Posted by on September 23, 2012 No comments



New submitter ferrisoxide.com writes “In Victoria (Australia), detailed information about electricity customers’ power usage, which gives insights into when a house is occupied, is being shared with third parties including mail houses, debt collectors, data processing analysts and government agencies.”

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UAV Lifeguards to patrol Australian beaches, Hasselhoff given notice

Posted by on September 19, 2012 No comments

UAV Lifeguards to patrol Australian beaches

Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s… a lifeguard? Aiming to keep a robotic eye out for distressed swimmers and dangerous marine life, Surf Life Saving Australia will soon deploy flying safety drones across beaches in Queensland, Australia. Starting off on a trial basis, the unmanned bots have a wingspan of one meter (about three feet) and will feature detachable safety buoys and alert sirens. While it could be the next thing in oceanside safety, we’d image that some folks won’t be too fond of being watched sans any say in the matter. That said, we’d be remiss not to mention to that SLS head Brett Williamson frankly stated to ABC that “at the end of the day this is about public safety.” Big brother conspiracy aside, we’re sure some folks could be swayed if these bad boys play Flight of the Valkyries while in formation.

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Australian Watchdog Frets Over BitCoin, MMOs’ Money Laundering Potential

Posted by on August 16, 2012 No comments



angry tapir writes “Australia’s anti-money laundering watchdog AUSTRAC believes that money laundering using digital currencies such as Bitcoin and virtual worlds (such as MMOs) are possible ‘emerging threats’. The organisation’s latest ‘typologies’ report earmarked virtual worlds and Bitcoin as two areas that the agency would be monitoring, although at this stage no-one seems sure to what extent they are being used (and some of the issues with Bitcoin, such as the fluctuating exchange rate and limited options for transferring value to real-world currencies through conversion to non-digital currencies or using it to pay for goods or services, mean that it’s unlikely it’s being used for money laundering on a significant scale).”

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Australian Gov’t Drops Plan To Snoop On Internet Use — For Now

Posted by on August 11, 2012 No comments



CuteSteveJobs writes “Australian Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has been forced to back down on her government’s unpopular plan to force ISPs to store the web history and social networking of all Australians for two years. The plan has been deeply unpopular with the public, with hackers attacking the government’s spy agency. Public servants at the spy agency promoting the scheme been scathing of the government, saying: ‘These reforms are urgently needed to deal with a rapidly evolving security environment, but there isn’t much appetite within the government for anything that attracts controversy,’ but a document on the scheme released under the Freedom of Information Act had 90% of it redacted to prevent “premature unnecessary debate.” Roxon hasn’t dropped the unpopular scheme entirely, but only delayed it until after the next election.”

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Australian Agency Rules Facebook Pages Responsible For Comments

Posted by on August 6, 2012 No comments



jibjibjib writes “The Australian reports that brands in Australia could be forced to abandon their social media campaigns, after the Advertising Standards Bureau ruled that they were responsible for comments posted on their pages. According to the article, the ASB is poised to release a report attacking Carlton & United Breweries for derogatory comments posted on one of their official Facebook pages, despite CUB monitoring and removing those comments twice daily. Legal expert John Swinson commented on the decision, saying ‘You simply can no longer have two-way conversations with your customers.’”

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Nokia Closing Australian Office, Looking To Sell Qt Assets

Posted by on August 1, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes “One day after word leaked out that Nokia is shutting down its Qt Australia office, which is responsible for Qt3D, QtDeclarative, QtLocation, QtMultimedia, QtSensors, and QtSystems, reports are beginning to surface that Nokia is trying to sell off all Qt assets.”

Seems like selling itself to Nokia wasn’t the best option for Trolltech after all.

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Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort

Posted by on August 1, 2012 No comments



lukehopewell1 writes “Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has already floated a plan to rebuild the Titanic to scale and sail it around the world, but now the mining magnate has found a new use for his money: cloning dinosaurs. Palmer reportedly wants to clone a dinosaur and let it loose in one of his resorts in Queensland, Australia. The billionaire has already been in touch with the scientists who helped clone Dolly the sheep to see what it would take to clone a dinosaur from DNA.”

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Anonymous Dumps Australian Telco Data Online

Posted by on July 28, 2012 No comments



lukehopewell1 writes “After the threats, admissions and delays, hacktivists protesting a data retention scheme proposed by the Australian Government’s National Security Inquiry have begun dumping data gleaned from an Australian telco — presumably AAPT. Anonymous is in the process of dumping government and business customer data onto Pastebin for the world to see under the guise of Operation Australia. This episode is far from over, however. We’re likely to see more data trickle out over the coming days, considering that the group has promised 40GB worth of leaks.”

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Australian Sex Party May Sue Google Over Ad Refusal

Posted by on July 21, 2012 No comments



New submitter niftydude writes “Australian newspaper The Age is carrying the story: The Australian Sex Party has threatened Google with legal action after the search engine refused to run its ads on the eve of tomorrow’s Melbourne by-election. It comes after Sex Party ads were blocked by Google at the last federal election because the company — which is typically opposed to censorship — perceived the text as too racy (the ads were reinstated by Google the day before the election). Sex Party candidate Fiona Patten said this time the search giant said it would not approve her ads ‘because we have a donate button on our page and we’re not a charity.’ Don’t all political parties allow donations? Is google imposing it’s own sense of morality onto Australian politics?”

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2 Year Data Retention For Australian ISPs

Posted by on July 12, 2012 No comments



freddienumber13 writes “Following similar acts passed by foreign governments, the Australian government is now seeking feedback on its plans to bring into law the requirement for ISPs to retain user data for up to 2 years. They’re also seeking changes to the law that would allow undercover ASIO agents and its sources to commit crimes which would include, for example, hacking into your computer.”

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StethoCloud: Australian College Students Build A Digital Stethoscope And Mobile App To Fight Childhood Pneumonia

Posted by on July 7, 2012 No comments

StethoCloudThe finals of Microsoft’ Imagine Cup, the world’s largest student technology competition, are taking place in Sydney this week and StethoCloud, the Melbourne-based home team, is definitely making a good case for Australia’s growing tech scene. The competition’s theme challenged students to build apps that “help solve the toughest problems” and the Australian team decided to tackle childhood pneumonia, which – despite the fact that it’s highly curable when detected early – sadly still kills more children than measles, malaria and HIV combined. The key to survival, says the Australian team, is to detect the illness early, but that’s obviously not easy for community health workers or unskilled staff in developing countries.
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iPad customers felt "short changed" by Apple, Australian judge says

Posted by on June 21, 2012 No comments

An Australian Federal Court judge ordered Apple to pay a A$ 2.25 million (US$ 2.28 million) fine and $ 300,000 in court costs to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of falsely marketing the 4G capabilities of its latest iPad.
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Australian man, 62, reportedly attacked by great white shark off Australian coast

Posted by on June 20, 2012 No comments

A man who survived a suspected great white shark attack off the coast of Australia reportedly believes he’s still alive because the animal became entangled in his kayak.




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Australian electronics dealer starts ‘Internet Explorer 7 Tax’

Posted by on June 15, 2012 No comments

Do you use an older version of Internet Explorer? Beware: An Australian retailer has begun to add a 6.8 percent surcharge — “that’s 0.1 percent for each month IE7 has been on the market” — to any user who attempts to purchase an item while using IE7.




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Australian Company Promises Switching Hardware With Sub-130ns Latency

Posted by on June 5, 2012 No comments



snowdon writes “The race for low-latency in finance and HPC has taken a major turn. A bunch of engineers from Australia have ‘thrown away the air conditioning’ in a traditional switch, to get a 10G fibre-to-fibre latency of less than 130ns! Way faster than more traditional offerings. This lady (video) would tell you that it’s equivalent to just 26m of optical fibre. Does that mean we just lose money faster?”

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Australian IT Price Hike Inquiry Kicks Off: Submissions Wanted

Posted by on May 26, 2012 No comments



New submitter wirelessduck writes “After some recent complaints from a Labor MP about price markups on software and technology devices in Australia, Federal Government agencies decided to look in to the matter and an official parliamentary inquiry into the issue was started. ‘The Federal Parliament’s inquiry into local price markups on technology goods and services has gotten under way, with the committee overseeing the initiative issuing its terms of reference and calling for submissions from the general public on the issue.’”

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Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case

Posted by on May 16, 2012 No comments



Fluffeh writes “In Australia, we have the right to record TV and play it back at a later date; we also have the right to transcode from one format to another, so anyone with a media server can legally back up their entire DVD collection and watch it without all those annoying warnings and unskippable content — as long as we don’t break encryption (please stop laughing!). Optus, Australia’s second largest Telco, has been raising ire though with the new TV Now service they are offering and Big Media is having a hissy fit. The service does the recording on behalf of the customer. Seems like a no-brainer right? Let the customer do what they are allowed to legally do at home, but charge them for it. Everybody wins! Not according to Sports Broadcasters, who made this statement when Optus said they would appeal their recent loss in an Australian Court to the highest court in the land: ‘They are a disgusting organization who is acting reprehensibly again and now putting more uncertainty into sports and broadcast rights going forward I’m really disappointed and disgusted in the comments of their CEO overnight.’ Is this yet another case of Big Media clutching at an outdated business model, or should consumers be content with just doing their own work?”

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Australian Government Backs OLPC

Posted by on May 9, 2012 No comments



angry tapir writes “One Laptop Per Child Australia had a win in the recent Australian budget, receiving federal government funding for the first time. OLPC Australia will benefit from $ 11.7 million of funding, which will be used to purchase 50,000 laptops to distribute to students. The organization recently launched a new initiative that builds an educational ecosystem around the laptops, to help integrate them into the learning process.”

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Australian gov’t to protect koala bears

Posted by on May 1, 2012 No comments

The Australian government announced Monday that the country’s most vulnerable koala populations will be protected by federal legislation.




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Australian Price Gouging Inquiry Targets Apple, Microsoft And Others

Posted by on April 30, 2012 No comments

Apple Retail Store - SydneyGetting a new laptop or buying a new license for an operating system is often cheaper in the U.S. than in most other countries. Europeans, for example, are used to paying a hefty premium for Apple products and the situation is similar in Australia, where the cheapest MacBook Air currently costs about 15% more than in the United States. Now, however, the Australian government is starting a parliamentary inquiry into these pricing schemes. According to Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, the politicians behind this inquiry hope that calling these companies out publicly will result in prices dropping.
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Apple fails to reach agreement with Australian competition regulator

Posted by on April 16, 2012 No comments

Apple failed in a mediation session on Monday to reach agreement with Australia's competition regulator on remedies for allegedly misleading consumers about the 4G capabilities of its latest iPad.
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Australian WiFi Inventors Win US Legal Battle

Posted by on April 1, 2012 No comments



First time accepted submitter Kangburra writes “Australian government science body CSIRO said Sunday it had won a multi-million-dollar legal settlement in the United States to license its patented technology that underpins the WiFi platform worldwide. Scientists from the agency invented the wireless local area network (WLAN) technology that is the basis of the WiFi signal employed by computers, smartphones and other Internet-ready devices around the world.”

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Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan

Posted by on March 30, 2012 No comments



New submitter pcritter writes “The Australian Government has just announced the 3-year roll-out plan for its ambitious National Broadband Network. The plan details 3.5 million premises (30%) across the country to be connected to the NBN by mid-2015. A map is available showing coverage areas. The plan represents a major milestone in the NBN project, which aims to connect all of Australia with high speed broadband by 2021, with the 93% of the population on fiber to the premises (FTTP) of speeds up to 1000Mbits, and the rest on fixed wireless or satellite.”

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Apple iPad 4G stubbornness blamed for Australian legal woes

Posted by on March 28, 2012 No comments

Australia’s consumer rights watchdog has detailed exactly what it expects of Apple to temporarily rectify the 4G confusion, though reports suggest the new iPad maker could have escaped legal intervention completely had it not argued over the exact wording of the LTE clarification. The Cupertino company faces the possibility of one or more penalty charges of up to

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Apple to offer refund over Australian 4G iPad claims

Posted by on March 28, 2012 No comments

Apple will offer refunds to people who bought its latest iPad following a claim by Australia's competition regulator that it ran misleading advertisements over the device's 4G connectivity, according to reports.
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Australian Govt Censors Notes From Secret Anti-Piracy Talks

Posted by on March 19, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes “It looks as if the Australian Government *really* doesn’t want the public to know what’s going on in its closed doors talks with ISPs and the content industry. The Attorney-General’s Department has applied the black marker to almost all of the information contained in documents about the meetings released under Freedom of Information laws. The reason? It wouldn’t be in the ‘public interest’ to release the information. Strange how the public seems to have a high degree of interest in finding out what’s being talked about.”

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Julian Assange To Run For Australian Senate

Posted by on March 18, 2012 No comments



New submitter bozman8 writes “Announced recently on social networking platform Twitter, Julian Assange has found a way to run for the Upper House of the Australian Senate, despite being detained under house arrest in Britain. Along with Julian’s candidacy, WikiLeaks has announced that they are going to run a nominee against current Prime Minister Julia Gillard in her local electorate.”

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GPS leads tourists into Australian bay

Posted by on March 17, 2012 No comments

Three Japanese tourists are leaving Australia without the vacation they wanted and $ 1500 poorer than they expected, and sticking a rental car company with the arduous task of retrieving a vehicle from a muddy Australian bay. The culprit? A GPS system that apparently didn’t have very accurate maps. It’s a very valuable lesson in the

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Australian Police Spying On Web, Phone Usage With No Warrants

Posted by on February 18, 2012 No comments



New submitter i-reek writes “Australian police, along with government agencies, are accessing phone and internet account information, outward and inward call details, phone and internet access location data, and details of IP addresses visited of Australian citizens, all without judicial warrants . In the last two years, some states have shown an increase of more than 50 per cent in these surveillance authorizations, which can be granted by senior police officers and officials instead of a magistrate or judge.”

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Hybrid Sharks Found in Australian Waters

Posted by on January 5, 2012 No comments

Scientists have discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, with multiple generations of the new creature found along the nation’s east coast.




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Australian court denies Apple appeal, Samsung Galaxy Tab sales ban lifted

Posted by on December 9, 2011 No comments

Samsung, you win this battle against Apple down under. The Australian court has just officially denied the appeal filed by Apple on their propose sales ban on Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. As of now, Samsung is finally cleared to put the Galaxy Tab 10.1 back on the Australian market late next week, just in time for [...]
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