general news
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IceTV launches IWatchThis.com.au community recommendation service
Fresh off their victory over Channel Nine, IceTV has added a new recommendation service to the IceTV system called I Watch This. Currently dubbed a public beta, there is a lot of promise in this idea – like any recommendation system, the more people who get in on it the better it’s going to get.…
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Australian $84 Million Porn Filter Thwarted By 16-Year-Old
Remember that $90 million we mentioned Howard is wasting on porn filters we mentioned would be a total failure? That we said ‘the kids’ would get past it without much effort? Good friend to you and me, 16-year-old schoolboy Tom Wood, (who could actually be a porn star with that name), managed to hack the…
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IceTV wins legal battle against Channel Nine
In a big win for TV viewers around the country, independent EPG provider IceTV has won their eight month battle against Channel Nine. This morning Justice Annabelle Bennett ruled in favour of IceTV that their EPG does not infringe Nine’s copyright in their television schedule. The entire Nine Network case was dismissed, with IceTV declared…
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Facebook blocks Gay names, but Donkey Dick is fine
News from New Zealand, and featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, is that it seems current social networking flavour-of-the-month Facebook has banned the use of the word Gay as a name – a resounding piss off to anyone who happens to have such a name. The stories cover the use of Gay as a surname.…