Month: August 2012
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By the numbers: iiNet and TPG get it on
The most telling chart in the iiNet 2012 financial results, released last Thursday, was the one showing the difference in costs for an on-net and off-net customer. They acquired an extra 167,000 on-net customers last year, each creating a gross margin of AU$34 per month. That’s the equivalent of 811,000 off-net customers adding just AU$7…
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‘Star Wars’ Force Glove lets you move objects without touching
Hey Star Wars enthusiasts—want to harness the power of the Jedi? read more
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iPhone button doesn’t work? Here’s what to do
Is your iPhone home button beginning to fail? Is your thumb beginning to get sorer and sorer from pressing it over and over again? Think you may be at risk of getting arthritis if you have to keep pressing it forcefully? read more
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Top Gun director Tony Scott dies in fall from LA bridge
Top Gun director Tony Scott has fallen to his death from a Los Angeles bridge, Los Angeles County coroner’s officials have told US media. read more
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FTTP could save $700m a year in maintenance
A fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) National Broadband Network (NBN) could save up to $700 million per year in telecommunication maintenance, according to a new report released today by BIS Shrapnel. read more
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Talks may signal new vision for AFL coverage
The AFL could be the first major Australian sporting body to sell footage of matches directly to fans via high-speed broadband after its chief executive suggested talks with NBN Co had begun. read more
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Electronic Arts For Sale? EA ‘Quietly Exploring’ Private Equity Interest: Report
Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq:EA) is “quietly exploring” opportunities for it to be sold to private equity firms, according to a report by the New York Post. read more
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World Of Coffee – Episode 9
Check out the latest episode of this great show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lMzA2BAALs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Red Hat Announces Preview Version of Enterprise-Ready OpenStack Distribution
The world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the immediate availability of the preview release of Red Hat’s OpenStack distribution based on the popular open source OpenStack framework for building and managing private, public and hybrid Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. With this, Red Hat delivers the next step in its plans for the industry’s…
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Robot exoskeletons push boundaries for disabled
On a weekday morning in June, 50 people gather at the launch of a new technology shop in a science park outside Cambridge, England. Dubbed a “store opening” by its hosts, US firm Ekso, it is quite unlike most retail events. read more