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Submission + - Apple loses Samsung Oz ban (smarthouse.com.au)

Submitted by downundarob on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @11:34PM

downundarob writes: An Australian court has ruled against Apple, who have just lost their case against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia. Apple may also have to pay costs to its Tab rival, according to the ruling. However, Apple quickly sought to prolong the ban until Friday, when it will make a case for an appeal against the decision.

Submission + - Apple gain patent for blindingly obvious (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by downundarob on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @09:12PM

downundarob writes: According to The register Apple have been granted patent 8,046,721 “A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is to be performed in order to unlock the device. The performance of the predefined gesture with respect to the unlock image may include moving the unlock image to a predefined location and/or moving the unlock image along a predefined path. The device may also display visual cues of the predefined gesture on the touch screen to remind a user of the gesture.”

Submission + - Apple Patents "Slide to Unlock" (zdnet.com) 1

Submitted by

bhagwad

on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @06:42PM

bhagwad writes: "In another case of patent madness, Apple now has exclusive rights to the ubiquitous "slide to unlock" feature found on a huge number of smartphones. Should Apple have been able to patent this in the first place, and what will happen now?"

Submission + - Steve Jobs is dead (smh.com.au)

Submitted by downundarob on Wednesday October 05, 2011 @08:01PM

downundarob writes: The Sydney Morning Herald (amongst others by now) are confirming the death of Apple's Steve Jobs.

Comment Share and Enjoy (Score 1) 258

by downundarob on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @11:27PM (#35728876) Attached to: Google Loses Autocomplete Defamation Case

Perhaps the Italian Justice System should 'go stick its head in a pig'.

Comment Re:That's just unfair (Score 2) 337

by downundarob on Sunday March 27, 2011 @09:14PM (#35634160) Attached to: SABAM Wants Truckers To Pay For Listening To Radio

I used to be a taxi driver here in .au, many years ago something similar happened with a big fuss from APRA/AMCOS going after hair dressers and the like for playing music in their stores. I phone APRA for clarification and was told that playing music in my taxi was not considered a public performance, (as the passenger could ask for it to be turned off/ stations changed etc). Strange how different countries can see the same thing in a different light?

Comment Re:Samsung Support (Score 1) 161

by downundarob on Sunday February 13, 2011 @10:12PM (#35196080) Attached to: Samsung Unveils Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy S II

Really?? Still waiting for my 2.2 upgrade, but it is Telstra Australia I'm waiting on, so it may be 2015 before that happens.

Submission + - IPv4 death rattle heard (apnic.net)

Submitted by downundarob on Monday January 31, 2011 @10:38PM

downundarob writes: According to APNIC two of the last available /8s have been allocated to them this month which will trigger the automatic allocation of the last 5 remaining /8s to the RIRs.
The time frame for exhaustion of these /8s is approximately three to six months

Comment Re:XML? that's so 1990 (Score 1) 51

by downundarob on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:31AM (#34584498) Attached to: Australian Stats Agency Goes Open Source

Does anyone else feel like they just looked at some COBOL source when looking at the YAML example?

Submission + - Oz.Dems Announce new Technoclgy Policy Coordinator

Submitted by downundarob on Wednesday July 22, 2009 @01:59AM

downundarob writes: The Australian Democrats have announced a new Technology Policy Coordinator, Anti-Clean Feed Campaigner Geordie Guy. Currently a board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia, Mr Guy has been an active figure in the fight against internet censorship — the so-called 'Clean Feed' — proposed by the Rudd Government. He is a computer systems architect with a decade of experience working with business and people in the IT industry itself as well as other markets and a qualified network engineer.

Comment Re:Bastards! (Score 1) 562

by downundarob on Friday March 27, 2009 @12:11AM (#27353013) Attached to: 10 OSes We Left Behind

I have a 1024STe and an 1024STfm for sale (plus a coloUr and mono monitor) designed for 240Volts.

Was working when they were last used.

In original boxes.

Based in Australia, email me if our interested.

Submission + - gov.au tells parents they too st00pid for intarweb

Submitted by downundarob on Wednesday January 21, 2009 @09:53PM

downundarob writes: Senator Nick Minchin , the Australian Shadow Minister for broadband, communications and the digital economy, has written (or more likely a staffer has written) this interesting article on the Australian Federal Governments continued zeal to enforce ISP level filtering in Australia. In the article he posits "Underlying the Rudd Government's plan to screen the internet is an offensive message: that parents cannot be trusted to mind their children online.". Meanwhile, we wait for filtering trials to start, trials that have been delayed and which have next-to-no support among the industry. Telstra BigPond — Australia's largest ISP — has refused to take part, comparing internet filtering to "like trying to boil the ocean". The third largest, iiNet, is prepared to participate to highlight flaws.

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