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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 + - World's first 21Mbps eHSPA/HSPA+ data "call (itwire.com)

Submitted by

gadgetopia

on Sunday December 07, 2008 @10:52PM

gadgetopia writes: "Although data "calls" on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009. http://www.itwire.com/content/view/22150/127/"

Submission + - Microsoft offers US $20 billion for Yahoo: report (itwire.com)

Submitted by

gadgetopia

on Sunday November 30, 2008 @09:19AM

gadgetopia writes: "Did anyone really believe Ballmer when he said that he wasn't still interested in buying Yahoo? Well, truth be told, Ballmer always said he'd be interested in doing a deal for Yahoo's search business. Looks like the money dancer is firing his latest shot! http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21992/53/"

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"

New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs 317

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @08:02AM from the my-word,-how-can-our-students-excel? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The New Zealand Ministry of Education has declined to renew a licensing deal for MS Office on 25,000 Macintosh computers in the country's schools. The Education Minister has suggested that schools use the free alternative NeoOffice. The article quotes a school principal who pointed out that the NeoOffice website warns users to expect problems and bugs: 'That's not the sort of software we should be expecting kids in New Zealand to be using.'" Schools are free to buy their own copies of Office. A blog on the New Zealand Herald site argues that the Ministry should have paid Microsoft this time, but not renewed the deal and instead developed a transition plan to open source.

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