Registration opens for .me domains - Internet - iTnews Australia
Registrations for the .me top level domain started yesterday afternoon, giving users a new crack at getting a personalised web address.
Unlike the recent staggered rollout of the .asia domain, the .me registrations are open to everyone from day one.
The .me domain name was previously assigned to [...]
Time machine needed to get iPhone? - Boing Boing
Eric Mueller took this photo of an AT&T store on lower Broadway in downtown Manhattan (near Park Place / City Hall) today. Seems the iPhone is “temporally out stock.” Perhaps it’ll be available last year.
Apple pushes 1 million iPhone 3Gs, 10 million iPhone Apps
Apple announced this morning [...]
Community to Gilliard: ‘Consider Open Source’ - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
The Australian Open Source community has called for the consideration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in the implementation of the Rudd Government’s Digital Education Revolution Policy.
In an open letter that was submitted last week to the Deputy Prime Minister Julia [...]
Geek Girl Dinners Melbourne can be found on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=15128236963
OLPC Australia is located at:
http://www.olpc.org.au/
New Trojan targets business bankers - Security - iTnews Australia
Security provider RSA is reporting a new and unfamiliar Trojan attack that exploits business bank account holders’ heightened awareness of security and uses it against them.
Customers receive an email claiming to be from their [...]
Microsoft surrenders libraries to Google - Business - iTnews Australia
Writing in his blog, Satya Nadella, senior vice president of Microsoft’s search and advertising group said Microsoft would kill off two sites for searching the contents of books and academic journals.
Live Search will send Web surfers looking for books to non-Microsoft sites.
Instead, Microsoft will be focusing [...]
Free Scheduling Software | Integrate Outlook, Google Calendar & Exchange Availability - TimeBridge
TimeBridge’s free scheduling software helps you share availability and schedule meetings easily with individuals or groups across time zones
Napster goes DRM-free MP3 - Boing Boing
“It’s great that we have finally gotten here,” said Chris Gorog, Napster’s chairman and chief executive. “It is really [...]
Ed’s interview with Martin Krafft - one of the lead Debian developers - available in Ogg Vorbis format (20MB):
http://www.rrr.org.au/archive/byte/MartinKrafftInterview.ogg
For more from Martin:
http://debiansystem.info/
http://madduck.net/
BBC NEWS | Technology | Virtual telescope opens night sky
Microsoft has launched WorldWide Telescope, a free tool that stitches together images from some of the best ground- and space-based telescopes.
Collections include pictures from [...]
Australia plans counter-terrorism email checks - Security - iTnews Australia
Australian companies providing critical services to the economy will be allowed to intercept the emails and internet communications of their workers under new security counter-terrorism laws. The government’s current Telecommunications Act, which expires in June 2009, only allows security agencies to monitor employees [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft targets the mobile web
Microsoft has launched a bid to capture a segment of the growing market for rich web content on mobile phones. The software firm has signed a deal with handset manufacturer Nokia to bring its Silverlight platform to millions of mobile phones. Silverlight is [...]
Digg - Google releases Zeitgeist 2007
Anna Nicole Smith, facebook, the iPhone were all top searches in 2007. See who else made the list…
Best of 2007: Top 7 Coolest Web Apps
While everyone is trying to create their ultimate list of the winners and losers of 2007, please allow us to take a [...]
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