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04 Dec 03 : 14 | Credit freeze bites as zoo tries to sell Knut the polar bear No longer cute, no longer washing powder-white, Knut the celebrity bear has become the latest victim of the credit crunch. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 5 hours ago |
04 Dec 03 : 11 | Analysis of the Government's technical testing framework for the upcoming... The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) has published a paper outlining the technical testing framework for the upcoming live trials of its ISP-level censorship scheme. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 5 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 58 | White possum may have become 'climate change casualty' The white lemuroid possum has been known to thrive in the cooler temperatures of the higher altitude rainforests of far north Queensland. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 6 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 56 | Fish sex change - it's in the ears Australian researchers have discovered a new way to determine when a fish has changed sex, by looking at its ears. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 6 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 55 | New domain to be web's phone book From 3 December companies will be able to buy addresses associated with a new web domain. Called .tel, the domain is intended to act as a universal contact point rather than as a hook on which to hang websites. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 6 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 53 | Amazon launches music downloads Online retail website Amazon has launched a UK music download service. Amazon MP3 will sell tracks from 59p and albums from £3. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 6 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 50 | HK says more Chinese eggs tainted Hong Kong authorities have found the toxic chemical melamine in another Chinese brand of eggs, dampening hopes of any end to the tainting scandal. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 6 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 49 | Zimbabwe 'asks for cholera help' Zimbabwe's government has asked for urgent international help to tackle its cholera outbreak, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 7 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 47 | Zoho Releases SQL-based Data-access Service Zoho, maker of an on-demand suite of business and productivity applications, on Tuesday announced CloudSQL, a new service that lets developers use the ubiquitous SQL (Structured Query Language) to connect Zoho data with other cloud-based or on-premises applications. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 7 hours ago |
04 Dec 01 : 46 | FCC To Vote on Free Broadband Across US FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has championed the idea of free broadband. Martin is particularly concerned about rural areas, where dial-up and satellite-based Internet still rule. Dial-up isn't fast enough to handle interactive fare, including video streaming. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 7 hours ago |
04 Dec 00 : 30 | Kogan Announces Australia's First (Two) Android Phones Australia's first Android phone (and one of the first in the world) is called the Kogan Agora. A second handset that will launch at the same time goes by the self-explanatory moniker, Agora Pro. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 8 hours ago |
03 Dec 21 : 31 | Apple offers free licensing for Mini DisplayPort spec When Apple recently introduced its revamped notebook line, it also introduced the world to the Mini DisplayPort. It turns out that the company is offering no-fee licenses to anyone interested in developing products that use the Mini DisplayPort specification. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 11 hours ago |
03 Dec 19 : 30 | Internode resumes ADSL2+ sales in Tasmania INTERNODE has ended a seven-month protest against Telstra and resumed ADSL2+ residential broadband services in Tasmania. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 13 hours ago |
03 Dec 11 : 59 | British surgeon amputates teenage boy's shoulder in Congo with instructions... A British surgeon amputated the arm of a wounded teenager in Africa with help from instructions sent to him by text message. Faced with carrying out an unfamiliar operation, David Nott called his surgical colleague Meirion Thomas. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 20 hours ago |
03 Dec 11 : 47 | Exclusive Brethren 'guilty of genocide, slavery' Two former members of the Exclusive Brethren religious group have told a court some of their former colleagues are guilty of international crimes. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 21 hours ago |
03 Dec 11 : 44 | SE Qld to get fluoridated water by end of month The State Government says all south-east Queenslanders will be drinking fluoridated water by the end of the month. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 21 hours ago |
03 Dec 11 : 42 | Sydney hospitals switch TVs for MFDs Days after NSW's Health's technology was slammed as archaic, the Sydney West Area Health Service has gone to market for over 2,000 high-capacity bedside touch-screen computers for patient entertainment and clinician access to core health systems. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 21 hours ago |
03 Dec 11 : 29 | Polanski wants court to dismiss child-sex case Thirty years after he became a fugitive to avoid a prison sentence for having sex with a teenager, Academy Award-winning director Roman Polanski asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss the case. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 21 hours ago |
03 Dec 11 : 28 | Zimbabwe villagers face starvation Crop failure and economic collapse have left the nation without food. Millions survive on nothing but wild fruit. 'Children are dying out in the bush,' one foreign doctor says. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 21 hours ago |
03 Dec 03 : 49 | Developers Can Now Issue Free 'Promotional' Copies of iPhone Apps Apple has finally started allowing developers to issue free promotional copies of their iPhone applications. Once an application has been accepted to the App Store by Apple, developers can issue up to 50 promotional codes. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 29 hours ago |
02 Dec 11 : 16 | Pownce Acquired by Six Apart Pownce has been acquired by the blogging company Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type, TypePad and Vox ... Pownce.com will be shut down by December 15, 2008. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds 45 hours ago |
01 Dec 04 : 02 | Westpac, St George merger complete Westpac says it has completed its merger with St George Bank. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 03 : 58 | Mother begins work to keep her son's pony Emotions have run high in reaction to a small Caledon boy, whose family may have to give up the pony he uses for therapy. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 03 : 15 | Mumbai attackers all from Pakistan: India All the gunmen who carried out the Mumbai attacks that left 172 people dead were from neighbouring Pakistan, India's deputy home minister told the BBC in an interview on Monday Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 03 : 04 | Google Street View set for New Zealand launch Google is expected to launch the New Zealand version of its Street View mapping application tomorrow. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 02 : 06 | Britain is criticised for deporting HIV patients The government is today, on World Aids Day, accused of double standards for permitting the deportation of people diagnosed in the UK with HIV to countries where they may not get the drugs they need to stay alive. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 01 : 57 | Botnets Can Trample Most Anti-Virus Programs A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their prodigious ability to infect PCs -- many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 01 : 46 | Physicist Stephen Hawking accepts post at Waterloo institute Canada's profile in the international physics community got a huge boost today as renowned "superstar" cosmologist Stephen Hawking accepted a research post at the country's "crown jewel" of theoretical physics study. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 00 : 31 | Everybody must get stoned? Swiss vote on relaxing cannabis laws Swiss voters head to the polls on Sunday (local time) for a series of referenda including a controversial proposal to decriminalise cannabis, local media reports. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
01 Dec 00 : 10 | Home buyers crippled by stamp duty Growing stamp duty bills on residential properties are impeding Australian home buyers' ability to enter the housing market, according to a new report. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
30 Nov 23 : 40 | Spam Finds New Launch Pad In the spirit of entrepreneurship, spammers are finding new ways to send out their junk mail just weeks after the shutdown of a major web-hosting firm took many of them off the map. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
30 Nov 12 : 17 | Movie Studios Gang Up on Aussie ISP In case you didn't know, iiNet is being sued for not doing anything to stop its users from downloading stuff off the Internet. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
30 Nov 12 : 00 | Coast Guard resuscitates drowning koala Victoria's Port of Portland Coast Guard had a rescue of a different nature last night, with volunteers giving CPR to a drowning koala. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
30 Nov 11 : 22 | Mass stranding: All whales found dead There are no survivors from the latest mass whale stranding on Tasmania's west coast. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
30 Nov 11 : 19 | Italian truffle fetches $305k at auction Defying the economic downturn, an Italian white truffle weighing just over one kilogram has sold at an international auction for $US200,000 ($305,000). Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
29 Nov 06 : 12 | When Everyone Is A Blogger, Nothing You Say Is Off The Record There's a lot of buzz here in the Belgian blogosphere and mainstream media about an incident involving a New York-based blogger, who was fired from her job as a bartender after publishing a post on the bar visit of a Belgian politician. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
28 Nov 22 : 18 | Scientists Begin to Decode Whale Speak Scientists from the University of Queensland working on the Humpback Whale Acoustic Research Collaboration (HARC) project are trying to break the mysterious communication systems of whales. Whalesong is said to be audible to other whales halfway across the planet. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
28 Nov 13 : 28 | German court rules big boobs are not a medical problem A COURT has ruled that insurance companies do not need to cover the cost of breast reduction surgery. The court ruled ruled that having a large bust is not a medical problem and as such insurers will only have to pay to correct breasts which are deformed. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
28 Nov 02 : 46 | Centro Properties fears collapse Shopping centre owner Centro Properties Group has warned it may fall victim to the subprime crisis. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
28 Nov 01 : 08 | Tours may miss Oz due to weak dollar Australia may be crossed off the touring schedules of some of the world's biggest music acts in 2009 as a result of the weak Aussie dollar. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
28 Nov 00 : 42 | Atari Cancels Anti-Piracy Witch-Hunt After Atari received some bad press recently for mistakenly accusing an elderly couple of pirating one of its games, the company has now stopped the anti-piracy campaign in question. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 23 : 28 | The Day of the Triffids to be remade by BBC A new generation is set to be terrified by giant plants following the BBC's decision to remake The Day of the Triffids. Adapted from the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, the modern day version for BBC1 will be penned by ER and Law & Order writer Patrick Harbinson. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 21 : 51 | Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Don't Deter Technology Companies Terrorist attacks late Wednesday in Mumbai are unlikely to make multinational technology companies change their strategies for India. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 21 : 14 | Estonian ISP Cuts off Control Servers for Srizbi Botnet An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the command-and-control servers for the Srizbi botnet, responsible for a large portion of the world's spam, has cut off those servers, according to computer security analysts. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 12 : 06 | Remains of Slave Ship Found Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 11 : 46 | Activists target Rudd's net censorship plans The political activists who helped free David Hicks and abolish Work Choices have now set their sights on the Government's plan to censor the internet, which is already facing a major backlash and a lack of political support. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 06 : 27 | Brooke Satchwell in Mumbai terror Actress Brooke Satchwell is in the middle of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 00 : 10 | Optus slams Telstra's broadband bid Rival contenders for the national broadband network say the Government cannot consider Telstra's proposal as it stands. The deadline for tenders to build the network closed yesterday. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
27 Nov 00 : 08 | Dozens dead, reports of hostages as terrorists target Mumbai At least 78 people have been killed and another 250 injured in a series of terrorist attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
26 Nov 10 : 31 | Anti-gay bigots on Roxon's mens' health taskforce Nicola Roxon has appointed a number of men's health ambassadors to encourage men to speak about their health. Source : Newsvine - Red Wolf's Column - Articles and Seeds |
