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

Submitted by gadgetopia on Tuesday March 30, 2010 @08:19AM

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.

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

Submitted by

davidmwilliams

on Monday January 12, 2009 @12:51AM

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?"

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

Submitted by

gadgetopia

on Thursday December 18, 2008 @06:05AM

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/"

Comment Dec 31 2008, not Dec 3 (Score 1) 1

by gadgetopia on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @09:12AM (#26131447) Attached to: iPhone 3G unlock "yellowsn0w" coming Dec 3

Oops, I didn't check the title properly and noticed after posting that I'd gone over the character limit. iPhone 3G unlock is coming on Dec 31, according to the iPhone Dev Team. Hooray! :-)

Submission + - Did Quanta just confirm a second-gen iPhone?

Submitted by

gadgetopia

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @08:48AM

gadgetopia writes: "Rumors, reports and now a seeming confirmation that Quanta will also be building the Apple iPhone sees Quanta's statement point to a second generation model which another report suggests could come with a different case design. http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12499/1103"

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