general news
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Telstra wants more money… go figure
Here’s something to brighten up your day: Telstra has formally requested permission from the competition regulator to enable price increases on 5.2 million customer phone lines! Wow, way to spread the love. Seriously, just sharing this ‘news’ makes us feel a bit dirty… Currently, the ACCC sets the prices Telstra charges for access to its…
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All non-iPhone posts uncovered!
Struggling to spot the gadget coverage from the haystack of iPhone news? This post will run top of the tree all weekend is here to kick off your Monday morning, giving you links back to the general gadget needles lost in the iNoise – there are more in there than you might think! -Seamus Byrne…
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Spyware Doctor breaks 100 million downloads
Who cares? Well we like to throw some love to local kids, and most of you probably didn’t even realise that PC Tools, maker of Spyware Doctor, is actually an Aussie software shop. Earlier this year it had a big win when Spyware Doctor was added to Google Pack, and now, after three years on…
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Google Gears: online apps go offline
At the Google Developer Day (end of last week), a big announcement was the new Google Gears browser add-on and API (now in beta). It’s set to let you run apps like GMail in an offline mode, as well as any other web app that plugs into the architecture. This is a pretty huge step…