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
MAKE
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
The Hamilton Watch Company was founded in 1892, to build only watches of the highest quality
. Their pocket watches became known across America for reliability, but it was the 1917 introduction of a military wristwatch that truly established them. Those early wristwatches used tiny 0-sized 17-jewel movements originally designed for women’s pendent watches.
The company went on to produce the world’s first electric watch in 1957, but they faced increasing competition from Japanese watchmakers. In an attempt to compete, they teamed up with Ricoh to produce electric mechanisms in their Lancaster, Pennsylvania factory which were then sent to Japan for final assembly. The venture failed, and Hamilton acquired Swiss watchmaker Bueren in an attempt to fight the Japanese onslaught with quality. It didn’t work, forcing the American factory to close in 1969 — via Retro Thing
A Google malware researcher gave a rare peek inside the company’s massive anti-malware and anti-phishing efforts at the SecTor conference here, and the data that the company has gathered shows that the attackers who make it their business to infect sites and exploit users are adapting their tactics very quickly and creatively to combat the efforts of Google and others — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Enterprises addicted to Microsoft’s nine-year-old Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser are having a tough time migrating to Windows 7, an analyst said today.
And although Microsoft has made it clear it wants IE6 dead and buried, the company needs to help solve a problem it created when it released the non-standard browser, then pressed businesses to develop IE6-specific applications, said Michael Silver of Gartner.
Microsoft would rather put the non-standard browser technology behind it,
Silver said in a recently published research report.
Easy for Microsoft to say; it doesn’t have to deal with the IE6 fallout — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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