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Submission + - Telco threatens customers over cheap VoIP calls

Submitted by Herman Toothrot on Monday December 29, 2008 @08:57PM

Herman Toothrot writes: APCmag is reporting that Optus, Australia's second largest telco, sent out a threatening SMS to thousands of its mobile customers on Christmas Day, warning that calls to local calling card services that divert calls overseas via VoIP will be charged at international rates. Despite the fact that the telco isn't responsible for transmitting the call internationally and the service provider pays for the diversion, it claims that these calls are classified as "international" and the customer should be billed as such.

This begs the question, if Optus claims this is acceptable behaviour, should customers be charged international rates when their support call is inevitably transferred to India?

Comment US Copyright Office search (Score 4, Informative) 648

by evilgrug on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @12:48AM (#26208737) Attached to: Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS

Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Type of Work: Text
Registration Number / Date: TX0006849489 / 2008-01-24
Application Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Title: Mac OS X Leopard Version 10.5.
Description: Print material + CD-ROMs.
Copyright Claimant: Apple Inc.. Address: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014
Date of Creation: 2007
Date of Publication: 2007-10-26
Nation of First Publication: United States
Authorship on Application: Apple Inc., employer for hire; Domicile: United States. Authorship: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program.
Previous Registration: 2006, TX-6-325-148.
Pre-existing Material: Previous versions of "Mac OS" and "Mac OS X" operating system software code.
Basis of Claim: new and revised text, illustrations and compilation; new and revised computer program.
Copyright Note: C.O. correspondence.

Comment Re:No big surprise (Score 5, Insightful) 417

by evilgrug on Monday December 03, 2007 @09:04PM (#21566577) Attached to: MP3 Format Still Gathering Momentum

5) Despite the fact that the MP3 technology is over a decade old, encoders are still getting better. You only have to look at the progress LAME has made (particularly the 3.90 and 3.97 'milestone' releases) in not just surpassing the quality of other once-popular MP3 encoders such as Fraunhofer and Xing but in some more recent listening tests even equalling its successor, at ~128kbps VBR, let alone the more high quality VBR presets (V0/V2) that many people rip in and that most pirated releases are released in via the scene.

Submission + - Test Shows Safari 3 Fastest Browser on Windows (staging)

Submitted by

czei

on Monday October 22, 2007 @04:38PM

czei writes: "With Apple's bragging about the speed of Safari 3 on Windows, how could we not do our own measurements? We took the top 16 websites according to alexa.com and measured the average page load times using Safari, Firefox, and IE 7, and found that Safari actually was 1.4 to 1.7 times faster, at least on initial page loads."

Submission + - Firefox more popular than IE7

Submitted by

Charles Witt - San Antonio, Texas USA

on Monday October 22, 2007 @01:07PM

Charles Witt - San Antonio, Texas USA writes: "Reputable browser stats reporter W3Counter calculates that as of 20 Oct 2007, Firefox is more popular than IE7."

Submission + - Software companies sues popular Australian forum (whirlpool.net.au) 3

Submitted by Pugzly on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @07:25AM

Pugzly writes: In a recent announcement on the Whirlpool front page, it appears that accounting software maker 2clix is sueing the founder of the forums as the founder "allowed statements 'relating to the Plaintiff and its software product that are both false and malicious' to be published on the Whirlpool forums."
Hopefully sanity will prevail, but it is the legal system...

Submission + - AMD 690 Series IGP Chipset Launched

Submitted by MojoKid on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @08:16AM

MojoKid writes: AMD has taken the wraps off their first product in the chipset arena since the acquisition of ATI last year. Here is a preview look at AMD's new 690 series chipset with integrated Radeon X1200 graphics. Poised at taking on NVIDIA's long since mature nForce 430 chipset, AMD has provided a competitive new offering in the IGP space it seems. The RS690's integrated Radeon X1250 sports a 400MHz, 128-Bit graphics engine, is Direct X9 compatible and has a maximum resolution of 2048x1536 with 32-Bit color. In addition, both VGA and HDMI outputs can run independently and its HDMI interface supports the 1.2 specification as well as HDCP 1.1.

Submission + - Top 50 Things To Do To Stop Global Warming

Submitted by

on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @07:59AM

An anonymous reader writes: Global warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to solve this problem: each one of us can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late.

There's an handy list of the Top 50 things to do to fight Global Warming that gives useful advices that everyone can follow in order to help the environment: some of them are at no cost, some other require a little investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term!

Submission + - Xbox360 Hypervisor Vulnerability - Homebrew on 360

Submitted by RedLine on Tuesday February 27, 2007 @09:10PM

RedLine writes: A new post on the BugTraq list released details on a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Xbox360 that allows privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full hardware access. The post is a follow-up on the anonymous presentation held on December 30th at the 23C3 Hacker Congress that suggested running homebrew code on Xbox360 would be possible soon. The vulnerability works in kernel 4532 and 4548 but was fixed by Microsoft in kernel 4552 (released on Jan 09, 2007) after they were notified about the exploit.

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