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Monday, 24-August-2009 14:58:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Australian taxpayers are being targeted by scammers, warns the ATO. Some of the scams cited included a fake website that mirrored the ATO's and offered a $9500 tax refund, and an internet-generated cold-calling scam that directed victims to phone a number and asked them to hand over personal information. Scammers also contacted victims via text message.
The Government's Future Fund has sold many of their Telstra shares. TELSTRA shares fell almost five per cent as nearly one billion shares were traded after the Federal government's Future Fund sold a major stake in the telco. Telstra shares lost 18 cents on Friday, or 4.93 per cent of their value, to close at $3.47, their lowest close in almost a month.
The case between AFACT and iiNet continues, with computer forensics playing a part. A senior scientist at Northrop Grumman in the U.S., Michael Caloyannides visited iiNet and Telstra facilities in Sydney and Perth last week to prepare his affidavit.
PC Perspective have an SSD Roundup. Today we test new offerings from OCZ, PhotoFast, Corsair and Crucial, pitting them against the Intel X25-M G2. Techspot have one too. As a follow-up to our previous SSD coverage, today we will be looking at four popular mainstream SSD offerings which include the A-Data S592 128GB, Corsair P Series 128GB, OCZ Agility 120GB and the OCZ Vertex Turbo 120GB.
LegionHW checked out Wolfenstein Multiplayer Performance. Today we are taking a quick look at the multiplayer performance using various high-end graphics cards in the new Wolfenstein game. This is the sequel to Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which has been built using the id Tech 4 engine, a heavily modified version we might add.
Google has been forced to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger, thanks Joanna. Model Liskula Cohen sued Google in January in the hope of forcing the company to reveal the person responsible for allegedly defamatory comments on a blog called Skanks in NYC, which was hosted by Google's Blogger service.
Glasnt spotted that MySpace has turned off auto-playing music. But all that popularity comes at a price - billions of free streaming songs are costing MySpace up to $10 million a month in streaming fees, says a source, and the joint venture may lose $20 million or more this year. To minimize those losses, MySpace has made a big change to its product - songs no longer auto-play when you visit a MySpace user profile.
BFM sent in this article about the carbon footprint of downloading vs shipping media. The worst-case retail scenario - a customer driving to a retail store and buying a CD - produces an average of 3,200 grams of CO2 per album. The best-case digital-download scenario - a customer downloading a CD's worth of tunes and not burning them to a CD-R - produces an average of 400 grams of CO2.
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