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Submission + - AU Gov censor own website

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Australian Minister for Communications and the Digital Economy has had his own website censored :http://www.news.com.au/technology/conroys-website-removes-references-to-filter/comments-e6frfro0-1225834474153. The tag cloud generation script has been modified client side to remove references to "ISP Filtering" which is truly ironic given the Minister is pushing for a ISP censorship system to be installed, yet welcomes open discussion of policy.
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - In 3 weeks iPhone has 1% market, Motorola down 2% (emediawire.com)

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pete.com
pete.com writes: "The latest ChangeWave consumer cell phone survey — completed July 20, 2007 — shows a virtual upheaval occurring among cell phone manufacturers and service providers as a result of Apple's (AAPL) entry into the space. Although iPhone sales are still in their nascent stages, the effects on cell phone manufacturers are already beginning to take shape — and no company is bearing the brunt of this more than Motorola (MOT). While it still leads all other manufacturers in terms of current market share (31%), Motorola has dropped 2-percentage points since a previous ChangeWave survey in April to its lowest level in more than a year. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/8/emw54418 5.htm"
Businesses

In Australia, An Ebay Sale is a Sale 267

Posted by Zonk from the almost-by-definition dept.
syousef writes "An eBay sale is a sale says an Australian New South Wales State Judge in a case where a man tried to reneg on the Ebay sale of a 1946 World War II Wirraway aircraft. The seller tried to weasel out of the deal because he'd received a separate offer $100,000 greater than the Ebay sale price. The buyer who had bid the reserve price of $150,000 at the last minute took him to court. 'It follows that, in my view, a binding contract was formed between the plaintiff and the defendant and that it should be specifically enforced,' Justice Rein said in his decision." I haven't found anything like this in previous discussions; have there been similar decisions like this handed down in the US, Canada, or Europe?

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