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Submission + - Aussies create super range analog spectrum Wi-Fi! (itwire.com)

gadgetopia writes: Australia’s CSIRO, the national science organisation which won court cases against major networking names for using 802.11 wireless technologies without paying for them, has just made another important breakthrough in wireless technology which will re-use soon to be decommission analogue spectrum still currently delivering analogue TV signals until the nationwide 2013 cut-off date.
Apple

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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."

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