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05/20/2012
Aussies top list of Game of Thrones pirates - Adelaide Now
TorrentFreak
Adelaide Now
Australians are the world's worst offenders when it comes to illegally downloading hit HBO series. People from Sydney and Melbourne are the worst offenders, according to TorrentFreak. Each episode of the show is downloaded three million times, ...
Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, And Why?
05/20/2012
Angry Birds and The Great Levelling - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
We've already determined that the world is flat, but the world is also starting to get more level. When I say level, I mean that the barrier to entry in many things has been lowered or blown apart altogether, and that our filter for what is the "real" ...
05/20/2012
'Ring of fire' eclipse thrills crowds - Sydney Morning Herald
USA TODAY
Sydney Morning Herald
Hikers watch an annular eclipse from Papago Park in Phoenix. Click for more photos 'Ring of fire' eclipse wows crowds Hikers watch an annular eclipse from Papago Park in Phoenix. Photo: AP Millions turned their eyes to the sky on both sides of the ...
Eclipse 'ring of fire' wows Asian, US sky-gazers
Millions witness 'ring of fire' eclipse
Millions of stargazers watch eclipse
05/20/2012
Facebook and the new world order - The Age
The Age
The Age
Mark Zuckerberg, ... the new media moguls don't look like Rupert Murdoch. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Facebook really is a very big deal, but not for the reasons you think. Yes, it now answers to a pack of shareholders and on paper is worth a ...
Nasdaq to revamp system after tech problems on Facebook IPO: WSJ
A Facebook Buy Order That Wasn't
Nasdaq CEO Blames Software Design for Delayed Facebook Trading
05/20/2012
Facebook to potentially welcome all ages - iTWire
NEWS.com.au
iTWire
Facebook's UK arm is considering scrapping the minimum age requirement for its users, meaning a change in Australia could follow suit. The Sunday Times in London has reported a debate into minimum age rules for the Facebook will be launched next month ...
Facebook to lift under-13 ban?
British arm of Facebook considering overturning minimum 13-year age requirement
05/20/2012
NBN closer for mid north coast - ABC Online
ABC Online
Large parts of the north coast will have high-speed fixed wireless broadband within the next year. The NBN Co says the wireless network will be switched on in stages from the mid-2013 as the fibre network is completed. Spokesman Darren Rudd says work ...
REVEALED: NBN Hits NSW '2013'
05/20/2012
nasties of the net - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
The innocent choice to click could send your computer into a crash. As users of technology, we're constantly bombarded with warnings about the malicious things malicious people try to do to our computers. The malicious software they use to do this has ...
The nasties of the net
05/20/2012
Chilling forecast after sub-zero start to week - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
It was a double-doona night for many across Victoria with regional areas and suburbs on Melbourne's outskirts shivering through temperatures below zero. Inner-Melbourne dropped to a low of 4.6 degrees at 6.30am, about 4 degrees below average and the ...
Chilly start for Melbourne
05/19/2012
Rain in Randwick breaks Sydney's dry spell - Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney is experiencing its driest start to May in more than 150 years, with no rain recorded in the city's gauge since April 24. The record was broken this morning after a couple of nervous hours for weather statisticians. Clouds built along the coast ...
Rain just a trickle in driest May since 1859
05/20/2012
China Clears Google Purchase of Motorola - New York Times
USA TODAY
New York Times
Authorities in China have approved Google's bid to buy the phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close this week. But Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google's Android operating system for mobile ...
China Clears Google to Buy Motorola Mobility
Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
Google wins Chinese approval for Motorola Mobility bid