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(link) Wednesday, 2-February-2011 02:44:07 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A few people pointed out a 100% cash back offer on certain Logitech goodies this month. During February Logitech will be offering consumers a full cash refund on some of its keyboards, mice, webcams, headsets and laptop accessories. The company is offering a total $300,000 of cash-back incentives on the purchase of seven products ranging from a $20 wired mouse to a $60 laptop cooling pad. Update: The fund of cash ran out within hours of the promotion starting, apparently. Seems a little short-sighted by Logitech.
Sydney Ferry passengers can now enjoy free WiFi. NSW Transport Minister John Robertson said that from today all First Fleet ferries, including the Charlotte, Golden Grove, Scarborough, Friendship, Borrowdale and all Manly ferries will offer free Wi-Fi.
Internode CEO Simon Hackett has bowed out of the Top Geek contest. "It would be of no surprise to any of you to appreciate that I had easily qualified into the contestant list for the next rounds of the competition, in terms of the number of votes I'd obtained," wrote Hackett. "The issue here was starting to turn into one of 'It's fun, but what if he won?' — in the sense that (on reflection) I'm kinda a professional geek, and it's hardly fair for me to be usurping the chance for one more 'amateur geek' to get a great prize and a trip to the USA."
NetGear's CEO has praised the NBN and criticized Apple recently. thanks JD. The NBN, he said, would lead to a "gold rush of cloud computing services", in a similar way that the mainstream acceptance of the internet 10 years ago led to an explosion in ISPs.
Canada are feeling the sting of no-longer-unlimited internet. Starting on March 1, Ontario TekSavvy members who subscribed to the 5Mbps plan have a new usage cap of 25GB, "substantially down from the 200GB or unlimited deals TekSavvy was able to offer before the CRTC's decision to impose usage based billing," the message added.
Meanwhile Australia's regional IP address registry APNIC have been allocated the last "general use" stock of IPv4 addresses, thanks Cameron. APNIC used the allocation notification to further stress the need for migration to IPv6, which is expected to last the internet for decades. With 250 million IPv4 addresses consumed during 2010 and few providers publicly trialling or implementing IPv6 migration patterns, Huston said the transition to the new protocol will not happen as smoothly as originally intended.
CNET have more info on the Sandy Bridge recall. Bottom line: if you are a consumer who's run out and grabbed a high-end laptop or desktop gaming rig in the last few weeks with an Intel quad-core processor billed as Intel's Second Generation Intel Core Processor, then you potentially have a problem.
Google have an interesting new technology that lets people tweet via voicemail. The idea being that if you're in somewhere where the Government has turned off the Internet (hi Egypt) you can still update the world on what's going on. We worked with a small team of engineers from Twitter, Google and SayNow, a company we acquired last week, to make this idea a reality. It’s already live and anyone can tweet by simply leaving a voicemail on one of these international phone numbers.
On a related note, both ZDNet and Computerworld wonder how easily Australia could be cut off from the net. Although Australia has been a stable democracy for 110 years now, shutting off the country's internet would be surprisingly easy to do and take just minutes, according to telecommunications experts. Following reports on Egypt's internet shutdown, Budde.com analyst Paul Budde said the government had the power to force internet service providers (ISPs) to shut down the internet if it chose to.
Queensland is in for another rough couple of days with Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi expected to hit in less than 24h, before which it may well reach Category 5. ABC have an updating feed from various social networks, while News.com.au have live coverage. NOAA have some scary images of the storm. It's probably worth keeping an eye on the BOM warnings summary page, and we have a discussion thread here. All the best to those in the storm's path.
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