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You can now get Australian patents online. For the first time, the full text of Australian patents can be searched, viewed and printed at no cost, by anyone, thanks to Cambia, a non-profit international organisation based in Canberra. Cambia has extended its worldwide patent resource 'the Patent Lens' to include Australian patents. It claims to have added full text of over 115,000 Australian granted patents and over 580,000 patent applications have been added to the Patent Lens collection of almost seven million worldwide patent documents.
Nintendo has announced a dedicated Wii fitness game. People have been talking up the Wii's fitness bona fides ever since it was released -- unlike most game systems, you can play Wii while standing up -- so today Nintendo announced it would make fitness a dedicated game.
Apparently open source uptake is very high in the Asia Pacific. Open source accounts for between 25 and 70 percent of all software in Australian, Chinese, Indian and Korean companies, according to a recent IDC survey. In an interview with ZDNet Australia sister site ZDNet Asia, Wilvin Chee, research director with IDC's Asia-Pacific software research group, said: "Businesses are using a variety of open source software, ranging from infrastructure software and storage to enterprise applications such as CRM (customer relationship management) and ERM (enterprise resource management)."
AMD quad core Barcelona processors are set to be launched in September. AMD is planning to launch the industry’s first native quad-core processors, codenamed Barcelona, in September 3 months later than it was supposed to be. The processor is slated to be shipped to OEMs by August and will appear in systems in September. The news comes as Intel announced that shipments of its quad-core Xeon 5300 microprocessor have topped one million since its release in November.
Mikhailtech have posted an introduction to server technology. SATA and SAS are both relatively new to the game. SATA is a technology most readers will be very familiar with, so we won’t dwell on it. SAS however is a newer technology made for servers. It is backwards compatible with SATA (sounds odd for anything to be backwards compatible with something so new, doesn’t it?) and uses the same cabling. The big difference is in the way data is transferred; SAS uses the same SCSI commands as parallel SCSI, except in a serial format.
Here is another article about how the ACCC has taken Google to court due to ad placement on their search pages. Australia's consumer watchdog has launched a world-first court action accusing internet giant Google of misleading web users by misidentifying sponsored links on its search engine. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it wanted Google to stop publishing search results that fail to distinguish between paid advertisements and "organic" search results.
Hardspell spotted some hair in a boxed AMD processor they were opening. In the picture is the AMD Athlonx2 3600+ and after opened the package we found there is a hair in the CPU plastic case. And then we found it was in the CPU and we can lift the CPU by it. Sp we photographed it. Though the CPU can work well, we still dont want to see this kind of things.
It seems that there is some ambiguity in some of the Excel functions of Microsoft's new format, thanks Bern. First, let's take the trigonometric functions, SIN (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.287), COS (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.50) and TAN (Part 4, Section 3.17.7.313). Hard to mess these up right? Well, what if you fail to state whether their arguments are angle expressed as radians or degrees? Whoops.
Nokia is set to introduce GPS in all their phones, thanks fester2001. Once, phones with MP3 players and cameras included were considered high end. Today, such devices have become ubiquitous. Now, Nokia believes GPS functionality will soon follow the same path. The world's biggest phone manufacturer has already started including GPS receivers into a handful of devices, including the N95, a self-styled multimedia computer and the Nokia 6110 Navigator . It's a trend that we're likely to see more of in the coming months, the Finnish mobile maker has revealed.
ojk007 spotted this picture of a funny newspaper article involving some people tricking a speed camera.
Damn Interesting have posted an article about Tesla's mysterious Wardencliffe Tower. In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure. Over a period of several years the men had managed to assemble the framework and wiring for the 187-foot-tall Wardenclyffe Tower, in spite of severe budget shortfalls and a few engineering snags. The project was overseen by its designer, the eccentric-yet-ingenious inventor Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943).
FB008 sent in todays timewaster where you need to try to throw the paper plane as far as possible. Although it is quite old from memory it is still pretty fun.
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