We all knew that it would come to this and it has finally happened – 33 developers have left OpenOffice.org to join The Document Foundation, with more expected to leave in the next few days — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A botnet has been systematically attacking Web sites that post blogs or forums containing content critical of the Vietnamese Communist Party. The botnet, thought to include about 15,000 bots, is launching massive denial-of-service (DOS) attacks to make the content unavailable, according to security firm SecureWorks — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Google has added to its long list of employee perks by providing staff with servants that will do everything from picking up dinners to cleaning up dog poo — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The National Broadband Network will give the government an extraordinary opportunity to push its internet censorship agenda on Australians, a cyberspace policy expert says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A New South Wales vet has performed an emergency Caesarean on a dying flying fox — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A young family in Darwin’s rural area is in shock after its six-month-old puppy was shot dead about 100 metres from its home yesterday afternoon — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The anti autorefresh momentum has continued to build for Australia’s digital industry with Realestate.com.au becoming the first mass reach News Ltd controlled website to sign up for the Audit Bureaux of Australia’s digital audit.
A condition of receiving an ABA audit is that sites cannot use autorefresh – where whole pages are automatically updated every few minutes – with advertisers potentially paying several times for the same set of eyeballs plus the associated ad serving costs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A team of Australian scientists has discovered a protein that can kill rogue cancer-causing cells and which they hope will lead to new drugs targeting cancer and other immune system diseases — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The strange smooth shadow in the tree is a cockatoo. The light wasn’t with me
Eight new affordable housing projects in Docklands, Cheltenham, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston and Ringwood are underway thanks to the partnership between the Gillard and Brumby Labor Governments — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This tutorial covers how to talk to a knitting machine! Once the interface cable is made, we can create cool custom patterns and load them from a computer! Adventures in communicating with the Brother KH-930e knitting machine! — via
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The ABC’s network of foreign correspondents was in uproar last night.
The cause was management’s decision to sack some of their translators, researchers and fixers and close down their stand-alone bureaus to save costs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The ABC will open a News bureau in Afghanistan in 2011.
The decision to establish a presence in Kabul follows a comprehensive review of the ABC’s international bureaux, and a reorganisation of bureau resources. The bureau will operate for at least 12 months as a base for coverage of news in the Afghanistan and Pakistan region.
It also follows the Federal Government recently saying Australia would be involved in the war in Afghanistan for at least
the next decade — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists on Orkney are investigating what is thought to be a 5,000-year-old tomb complex — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Krispy Kreme doughnuts’ Australian division is going into voluntary administration because of poor sales.
The Australian arm of the US company was placed in the hands of accountancy firm Smith Hancock on Friday, it has been reported.
Krispy Kreme has 50 stores across Australia, employing 660 staff — via redwolf.newsvine.com
State Labor has stepped up its campaign against the surging Greens, targeting the party’s candidate for Melbourne, prominent barrister Brian Walters, and seeking to smear him as anti-Semitic and an unscrupulous lawyer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An internet troll
who posted obscene messages on Facebook sites set up in memory of dead people has been jailed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Omega’s game of cat and mouse with the present and past continues. The last several sport watches they released seem to have at least one leg (from a design perspective) in the past. This new Speedmaster Broad Arrow Co-Axial watch isn’t that much different. It is like a modern man in a vintage Armani suit that still looks pretty good today. The Broad Arrow Speedmaster watch has been around for a long time. The point of the name? Well compared to your standard Omega Speedmaster Professional watch the Broad Arrow has…. well, it has a broad minute hand and an arrow hour hand. And to think that Broad Arrow just sounded like a cool name for a Speedmaster — via A Blog to Read
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