Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has revealed that changes could be made to the proposed and controversial internet filter in a recent interview with the ABC/Triple J’s news program Hack.
“Well, it’s possible we could move in different directions,” Swan told the program, also telling listeners that the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has taken into consideration the concerns and is looking and responding to the concerns.
Yes, that does look cool. A researcher, in an attempt to advance the state of artificial intelligence in computers towards a human-esqe approach, has built a shoulder-strap computer simply using a cheap pear of video glasses that were hacked to a fit one lens of the glasses.
Martin Magnusson also utilise a Beagleboard (a computer running on a single board) running Linux and a fold-able Bluetooth keyboard from Nokia. It is also hooked up to his iPhone for internet and a mini USB hub in order to have Bluetooth connectivity and the display.
There are a couple of posts on his blog on how he manages to achieve this – with each component broken down in an individual post.
Well, Safari 5.0.1 has been released by Apple. While it may look like a simple update, this version sees its new promised Safari Extensions turned on. Currently there are a few extensions available – or that we can tell from the website – including some from the New York Times, eBay, Amazon and Microsoft’s Bing. There is also an official Twitter application and some apps that act like separate Greasemonkey scripts – altering a site.
Foxconn, the troubled Taiwanese IT manufacturer known with their work with Apple’s iPhone, has suspended its operations after 250 employees in one of its factories in India were hospitalised after being poisoned because of pesticide spraying.
When The Apple Store came back online earlier today, you may have noticed that Apple has released their new Magic Trackpad which has had much speculation over the past month or so. This trackpad is basically an oversized version of the trackpad which has appeared on recent MacBook Pros and is designed to replace your mouse and is selling for $99 on the Australian Apple Store.
Yes it’s true – the fruicticious shop is currently down in many-a-country, possibly signalling the arrival of a refreshed iMac, Mac Pro and iPhone line. What are your thoughts on the matter? Will we see a sparkling new trackpad?
Let us know when it’s back up!
Press have reported that the U.S. Government will explicitly allow to permit iPhone users to jailbreak their phones and escape the clutches of Apple’s App Store and be able to install non Apple signed applications.
Thats right, Vodafone have announced their iPhone 4 plans earlier than originally promised. They where set to be announced tomorrow, Wednesday but straight from the Vodafone blog they have been announced.
Their entry level $29 per month plan includes $180 of calls to any network, 50MB of included data and 500MB of bonus data. The iPhone 4 16GB model will be $18 per month while the 32GB model will be $24 per month on a 24 month contract.
Telstra is not the only carrier to have announce their plans for the iPhone 4. The number two mobile carrier, Optus, has announced their plans – with more capacity that makes Telstra looks a little bit stingy when it comes with how much data is included.
Telstra has announced its iPhone 4 plans and brought out an update to its plans of the previous iPhone 3GS. For all plans – the $49, $79 and $99 Cap plans – the iPhone 3GS will no longer have a upfront payment for the device. The iPhone 4 16GB, however, will have to pay an upfront cost of $149 on only the $49 Cap.
The European Commission, which is the antitrust regulator of the entire 27-nation European Union (similar to our ACCC), has launched an investigation into IBM on allegations that the company abused its dominant position in the mainframe computer market.
“IBM is alleged to have engaged in illegal tying of its mainframe hardware products to its dominant mainframe operating system,” the European Commission said.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia has announced that it will be releasing more information about the iPhone 4 this Wednesday, just days before the phone – which has been getting some negative press within the US over its antenna – is set to be release in an additional 17 countries, including Australia. It is expected that pricing will be revealed for the device.
By this time next year, experts predict that there will be no IPv4 addresses left. What does this mean? Everything that connects to the internet is assigned an IP address, at the moment it’s an IPv4 address, which is vital to that device being able to communicate with all the other computers on the internet.
When IPv4 was deployed, nobody ever thought that 4 billion addresses wouldn’t be enough. 30 years later, it isn’t enough and now experts predict that within 340 days there won’t be enough addresses to go around.
No, we are not talking about the winners of Masterchef or the winner of the election, we are talking about who has won our nifty competition for one of ten copies of BitDefender’s Total Security 2010 security suite package. Yes, that one – the one that has been promoted on our website.
We closed the competition, we chose ten entries and we have read them out – in the same style we usually do our podcast, with little knowledge what we’re going to talk about and with in-joke humour that you will never understand. But here are the winners. You will have to listen and find out (after the jump).
Yes, what you are seeing is a brain, and while we left you pondering with a brain cupcake for zombies, turns out it will protect your noggin as well. Don’t worry, it is all fake. Yes, this is just an image of a brain that has been stuck on a motorcycle helmet. There are also other styles in the series, including the Black 8 ball, someone’s bald head, a bum, a breast with pierced nipple, a tennis ball and a cracked walnut.
Very stylish? Very weird? Well, if it isn’t, we’re out of a job. You can find the rest of the series of motorcycle helmets from a Kazakhstan website called Good! (We don’t think that this deserves a NSFW warning, but just in case – it is NSFW!)
