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Submission + - Newsflash: Planet Earth and iPhones have germs! (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia writes: OMG! Scientists make the earth shattering discovery that the screens of iPhones, iPads and other smart devices can carry germs, whether through display in stores or by the sharing of devices prompting calls for hand sanitizers and anti-bacterial wipes, but while hygiene is always welcome, isn’t the whole thing a bit of a beat up?
Australia

Submission + - Do-gooders to 'save the children' and ban porn (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia writes: Oh God, here we go again, righteous types in Australia are trying to tell free-thinking, law-abiding people what to do with their lives, and are now on a campaign to ban porn magazines and lads mags from the newsagents, petrol stations and shops they’ve been in for years to “save the children”.
Apple

Submission + - One more thing: Apple's iPad OS 4.0 with multitask (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia writes: In a stunning move just two days before the iPad launches into the US market, to be followed within the month to other countries, Steve Jobs will announce later today that the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad OS 4.0 will be released – with multitasking.
Australia

Submission + - China has just blocked Google,Australia to follow? (itwire.com)

Submitted by gadgetopia
gadgetopia writes: A news report in Forbes says that China has blocked Google with its great firewall, now the world waits to see if Australia’s Minister for Censorship, Senator Stephen Conroy, will do the same following his outrageous attacks on Google.
Caldera

Submission + - SCO rise from the dead to maintain the Linux rage (itwire.com)

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davidmwilliams
davidmwilliams writes: "WTF? Is it April 1st? Or is it 2003? No! It's January 2009 and who'd have thought ... The SCO Group (formerly Caldera) are trying to raise funds to get out of bankruptcy and continue their fight against IBM which they lodged way back in 2003 over claims that IBM contributed SCO intellectual property into Linux without authorisation. Here's the background including SCO's monumental fail in 2007. Today they're back, proposing to auction off their saleable products to build up a war chest to keep the legal flames fanning. You have to ask: is McBride mad? And is someone else pushing the agenda?"
Microsoft

Submission + - 2009: Year of the Linux Delusion (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia
gadgetopia writes: "An article has come out claiming (yet again) that 2009 will be the year of Linux, and bases this prediction on the fact that low power ARM processors will be in netbooks which won't have enough power to run Windows, but then says these new netbooks will be geared to "web only" applications which suits Linux perfectly. And, oh yeah, Palm might save Linux, too. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22386/1103/"
Portables

Submission + - Windows crushing Linux in netbook market: Acer (itwire.com)

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gadgetopia
gadgetopia writes: "Contrary to some recent reports, senior managers at Acer and other leading vendors have confirmed that Microsoft Windows XP now dominates the emerging sub-notebook market with more than 90% of new sales. Meanwhile, Linux, which had the netbooks market to itself until April this year, has seen its share of the space eroded to less than 10% in a breath-taking decline."
Linux Business

Submission + - SPAM: The true cost of one laptop per child

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WirePosted
WirePosted writes: "Late last year Uruguay landed its first shipment of 100,000 units of the much lauded, sometimes criticised XO laptop from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation. Buoyed by that success, Walter Bender, president software and content at OLPC effused over the next countries in line for the little green machine. The question is, however, can the likes of Peru, Mexico, Ethiopia, Haiti, Rwanda, Mongolia and a myriad of other impoverished countries stump up with the cash needed to join the OLPC bandwagon? The sums are not that difficult to do."
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