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Tuesday, 17-August-2010 20:09:27 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The Government seems to have suddenly realised that phone-downloaded games and apps are not being examined as part of the national classification scheme. A spokeswoman for Minister of Home Affairs Brendan O'Connor said he was "concerned about the classification of games playable on mobile telephones and had put the wheels in motion to address this with his state and territory counterparts". Urgh, this won't be good for the world of cheap/free apps if they have to pay big bucks to be certified for use in Australia. Discussion here.
Malcolm Turnbull has written a lengthy piece on why he feels the NBN will fail, thanks Tristan. All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years. As one of the founders of OzEmail, Australia’s first big internet company, I believe passionately in broadband and the power of the internet.
Rage spotted this cool PC table. If you're looking for a long workspace free of cord clutter, this lengthy desk sports hidden cable management tools so nary a cable will be see dangling down to your floor. More here.
mpot sent in this iPod to iPhone converter. Kinda surprised nobody thought of this before, now. Invented by a 22-year-old programmer who lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the gadget is comprised of a case that fits around the outside of Apple's iPod Touch, a popular media player and Wi-Fi-enabled pocket computer with e-mail, maps and other applications.
Toshiba has a quite neat dual-screen mini-laptop, thanks Sniper. (USD) $1,099.99 buys you a Pentium U5400 processor, Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit), integrated Intel HD graphics, a memory card reader, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a 62GB solid state drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, an inbuilt webcam and an 8-cell battery. Oh, and twin 7-inch WSVGA LCD panels.
More Quakecon coverage: Day 2 and a hardware workshop on PC Perspective, and Best Case Mods on LegitReviews. The 2nd Annual PC Perspective Hardware Workshop at this year's Quakecon was a huge success as we gave out more than $30,000 in hardware. Our friends at ASUS hooked attendees up an indepth look at overclocking with ASUS's high-end Rampage and Maximus series of motherboards.
Apparently there's a fake Facebook "dislike" button scam doing the rounds. Hackers are enticing Facebook users to install an application pitched as a "Dislike" button that jokingly notifies contacts at the social networking service "now I can dislike all of your dumb posts." Once granted permission to access a Facebook user's profile, the application pumps out spam from the account and spreads itself by inviting the person's friends to get the button, according to Sophos.
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