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| Coolest Girl In School – the Mobile Game For Bad Girls |  | "Coolest Girl In School" is the name of a controversial mobile game developed by Champagne for the Ladies and Kukan Studio, two Australian providers of mobile entertainment. The game was first released in Australia, and it's now also available internationally, so anyone can try it out.
Presented as being better than a GTA (Grand Theft Auto) ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2008, 07:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sony Ericsson Loves Leona Lewis |  | Sony Ericsson came up with a new competition for music fans, this time for the ones of Leona Lewis, the British pop/R&B female singer. The competition addresses only to Australian fans, so those not living there can only wait for Sony Ericsson to initiate a similar contest in their country too.
Leona Lewis will be performing live in Sidney, on April 29, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, during an exclusive event organized ... [read more >>] | | 26 April 2008, 04:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nokia Music Store Now Open in Australia |  | The latest Music Store portal opened by the Finnish giant mobile company is Nokia Music Store Australia, which comes as the seventh Store of this type, after the ones from the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands. As in the case of the already exist ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| About Dingo |  | They are shot, trapped, poisoned by sheep and cattle farmers. No wonder that the Australian wild dog, the dingo, is menaced. Ecologists warn that pure breed animals may vanish in 40-100 years, due to the cross with the ordinary dogs. By now, the main issue is the proliferation of the hybrids. Dingoes mate once a year, while the hybrids, just like ordinary dogs, do it twice a year.
In 2006, a research showed that the decreased number of ... [read more >>] | | 15 April 2008, 14:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google under Strong Criticism over Street View Update |  | The Mountain View-based company plans the expansion of Google Maps Street View, the web service which shows street-level panoramas only using your browser. According to several reports, multiple Google cars supposed to be used for capturing Street View photos, were spotted in Australia, a matter which attracted, once again, the privacy infringement dispute into the spotlights.
As you probably know, Google has always been criti ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 02:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 3G iPhone To Hit Australia in June |  | Apple's iPhone is impatiently awaited by Australia and, although there have been various rumors about its launch, there were no official details to sustain it, not from Apple and nor from any of the Australian carriers.
The wait will app ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 35,000-Year-Old Stone Tools Found in Australia |  | America still had to wait for an Ice Age to pass when modern humans entered Australia. Australian Aborigines make one of the world's oldest continuous culture (perhaps just the Bushmen of South Africa are older); some Australian archaeological sites revealed a 40,000-year-old Aboriginal presence. Now, a ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 04:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mini-Y2K Apocalypse Strikes Australian Computers |  | The Australian computers and intelligent devices are expected to be seriously affected by a semi-Y2K issue, that will put out of sync the internal clocks on computers, smart-phones and corporate servers. The synchronization troubles are caused by the new daylight saving time regulations imposed across the south-eastern Australia.
As of this year, the daylight saving in NSW, Victoria, ACT, Tasmania and South Australia will end ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Weird Objects Raining from the Heavens |  | No surprise here! Out of the few couple of millions of objects floating around in Earth's orbit, at least some must come back from time to time. Just last week, a cattle farmer from Australia reported another incident in which a strange object suddenly appeared in a remote region of the northern outback. He believes that the giant ball of twisted metal, which appeared for no reason, might be a piece of space junk from a rock ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 06:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Australia's Rating System Remains Unchanged |  | Fortunately, this has nothing to do with the recent Byron's review. However, this could be considered some sort of bad news for those who hoped that the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General meeting will actually change the Australian ... [read more >>] | | 28 March 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Tell on Crooks by Email |  | Fighting crime is a lot easier to do when police officers don’t have to go around knocking on every door until they find something of help. Those interested in lending the helping hand can now send video footage or imagery of crimes being committed that they have chanced upon directly by email, news.com.au reports. The evidence obtained this way will be admitted for prosecuting serious crimes from bashings, sexual assault and ter ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 11:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| UK and Australian Zombies Pay Better |  | Right, if you’re a cybercriminal that wants to make some cash on the side, you’re not a stranger to the way ‘install’ selling works. It’s really not that difficult, come to think of it. The big time spyware authors are willing to pay scores of dough for having their malicious code spread to PCs all over the world, and the best way to do it is by contacting a webmaster or the owner of a botnet. It’s a win-win situation for both pa ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 14:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Mountains of the Aboriginal Paintings |  | Australia is the lowest and flattest continent. Some mountains punctuate its relief, but they could be seen as mere hills in other areas. For example, the highest Australian peak is Kosciusko (New South Wales): 2,230 m (7,430 ft) tall.Yet, they attract mountaineering amateurs and, during the winter, they are the only snowed places on the continent where people can ski.
Grampians Mountains are located in western Victoria, in the southwe ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Some Amazing Facts About Koala |  | The name "koala" means in an extinct Aborigine language "does not drink." Even if called koala bear, this animal has nothing to do with the actual bear; it is not even a placental mammal, but a marsupial, like the kangaroo. Its closest living relatives are the wombats. A koala (Phascolarctos cinererus) is about 60-80 cm (2-2.6 ft) long and weighs 5-14 kg (11-30 pounds). The extremely fine gray fur is the reason why koal ... [read more >>] | | 08 March 2008, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| $85 Million P0rn Filter Failing Big Time |  | Keeping children away from pornography is a must with the Internet today, everybody agrees on that. Many governments have invested a lot of money into programs that would allow parents to filter out the sites their kids visit and they deem as not safe, the Australian one being among them. 7 months after it was released, officials admitted to have spent the money on nothing.
Out of the total AUS $189 million being spent on the ... [read more >>] | | 21 February 2008, 15:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Emu: Harems of Males and Female Minstrels |  | Emu (Dromicaeus novaehollandiea) is represented on the emblem of Australia, being one of the Australians that cannot walk in "marche-arriere". This relative of the African ostrich can be 2 m (6.6 ft) tall (the second tallest living bird after the African ostrich) and weigh 35-50 kg (75-110 pounds), a third place amongst birds after the ostrich and cassowary.
This "Australian ostrich" has a shorter neck than in the c ... [read more >>] | | 01 February 2008, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google’s Slow, Others Take Advantage |  | The world is Google’s oyster and because of that it can afford not to hurry some of the products along, despite the fact that the market is craving for them. This is the case of the Google Base search engine, which gives its users (the companies) the option to register products, services and content online, alongside word descriptions for each, dubbed attributes.
There’s some serious competition for it, though, a pretty new Australian ... [read more >>] | | 28 January 2008, 18:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Platypuses Roamed with the Dinosaurs! |  | When the first platypus furs were brought to Europe, people thought that duck bills had been glued to the skins.
The platypuses and the four current echidna species are the only living "monotremes," mammals with reptilian traits as they lay eggs and have a cloaca and three bones in the shoulder girdle (the other mammals have only two). It has been believed that platypuses and echidnas separated from a common ancestor sometime b ... [read more >>] | | 24 January 2008, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is the iPhone Ready For Australia? |  | Apple's iPhone is definitely one of world's most important mobile devices released in the last few years, and despite this, the handset didn't get the chance to reach all the big mobile markets until now. One of these markets is Australia, where us ... [read more >>] | | 23 January 2008, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Next Solar Eclipse: 7 February |  | The first solar eclipse of the new year will take place on Thursday 7 February, will be a partial eclipse and unfortunately can only be seen by part of the residents of the southern hemisphere. Scientists predict that the shadow cast by the Moon will appear over the Antarctic continent and travel towards Australia and New Zealand before the eclipse ends, thus tourists visiting the respective countries should get a pretty good vie ... [read more >>] | | 23 January 2008, 04:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Murdoch and Parker to Buy Consolidated Media Holdings |  | News Corp. owner’s son, Lachlan Murdoch, has teamed up with James Packer, the richest man in Australia to buy Consolidated Media Holdings and all it is connected with. And that’s not little, I assure you: a 25% stake in Foxtel (Australia’s leading pay/ cable TV company) and PBL Media (owners of the Channel 9 network), 50% of Fox Sports, 27% of Australia’s leading online jobs site Seek.com.au, a 50% stake in NineMSN (the Australian version ... [read more >>] | | 22 January 2008, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Get Your Firefox Discounts Here! |  | There are many who have tried to take advantage of a particular well known brand in order to advertise their company’s services or products, but that usually ended with a trial and a lot of penalties. At least in the past 20 or so years that’s the way it went.
The new model of advertising that an Australian online computer shop is trying to implement on the market is that of discounts based on the browser used when ordering so ... [read more >>] | | 09 January 2008, 04:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Who Are the Australian Aborigines? |  | The Australian Aborigines form together with the Bushmen and pygmies one of the oldest human race. They are one of the first human groups to have moved out of Africa perhaps 60,000 years ago. This group formed a race later known as Black Asians. 12,000 years ago, they were the main inhabitants of India, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, Melanesia, and perhaps even eastern China. They make the most primitive form of this race, later types b ... [read more >>] | | 05 January 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google VS eBay – the 2007 Showdown |  | Although I would have thought it interesting to see it come down to a honest-to-God fight or brawl, so that you don’t understand me wrong, between the employees of the two companies (who don’t wander how guys that have nigh to no physical activities all day fight?) and despite the fact that it was well organized in confined space, the showdown was actually one at netball. Or women’s basketball, as some might know it as… There shouldn’t be ... [read more >>] | | 17 December 2007, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| No Better Place for Tara than the Hookers' Ball |  | Today must be hooker day or something – so you might as well check your organizers, calendars, agendas and all that and let me know if I missed out on an important day of the year. I must really remember this day – we all should, otherwise there will be a lot of disappointed people out there who will get no anniversary wishes. And since we're talking about hookers, here is something that will definitely lift your spirits: in ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Oldest Kangaroo Was Very Different |  | Today, kangaroos are Australia's wildlife symbols and the largest living marsupials. Now, a 25-million-year-old marsupial fossil seems to represent the oldest species in the lineage of the kangaroos. Unlike the hopping man-sized kangaroos, these ones ran on all fours, had carnivorous-like fangs and might have been arboreal.
"This is really the great, great, great, great grandfather of modern kangaroos," co-researcher Ben ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 05:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HD DVD Is Buried in the Land Down Under |  | Although the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray battle has really heated up lately, we've mainly talked up until now about what's happening on the major markets, namely the North-American, European and Japanese ones. However, the two formats have, quite obviously, reached the other parts of the world as well. It seems that, at least in Australia, the HD DVD format isn't doing too good (actually, it's not doing so good at all) ... [read more >>] | | 05 December 2007, 13:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Asus Eee PC Has Started Selling in Australia and Romania |  | The cute little notebook PC from Asustek sells extremely well all over the place. US is already under the siege and people keep battling for at least one unit to place under the Christmas Tree. The Eee shopping spree has taken over the Australian continent as well.
The Myer store chain is comprised of 67 stores all over Australia and they have started exclusively selling the Eee rarities. The retail price is situated at AUD$49 ... [read more >>] | | 03 December 2007, 10:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google 4 Doodle… Reversed |  | Picture a beach with soft sand and blue sky, the sun rising in the distance and you hanging around your house there, having a refreshing drink while just chilling in the shade of a big tree. Ok, I don’t know how a tree would catch roots on a beach or how the sun would just be rising with you needing a drink so early, or at the very least, why you would be there instead of being at work (ok, that I understand, but I’m just jealou ... [read more >>] | | 30 November 2007, 04:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Awarded Best Web Application But Destroyed It |  | In a gala yesterday, Google Maps won the Best Web Application prize along with Facebook – rivalry at the top, that of Google and Facebook. Unfortunately, the award was almost destroyed because the forces of evil were out to get the unlucky man who went on stage and accepted it.
A black day indeed, as Raul Vera, Engineering Manager, made his way to the gala event that had imposed the "Suited and Booted" attire for me ... [read more >>] | | 28 November 2007, 04:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Street Coming, Check Your Attire |  | Are you ready to be immortalized and be seen by the entire world? How about those sneakers you’re wearing at the moment, do they look memorable enough? Are you a trendsetter that needs that little boost to get things going?
Have no fear, Google’s here! Well not exactly here per se, but it’ll be coming in a town near you (or perhaps if you’re lucky in your town) and be taking pictures so be sure to practice your Colga ... [read more >>] | | 23 November 2007, 04:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 8 Amazing Facts about Kangaroos |  | 1.Scientists believe that kangaroos' and wallabies' ancestors could have looked like a Wynyardia, a 21 million years old marsupial found in Tasmania.
The largest living kangaroo, the red kangaroo (Macropus rufus) is also the largest living marsupial. Males are up to 1.8m (6 ft) tall and weigh up to 84 kg (187lbs). Kangaroos grow duirng all their life, which can be up to 20 years. Giant short faced kangaroos (Procoptodon), ext ... [read more >>] | | 21 November 2007, 10:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Receives Australia's Blessing |  | The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission which analyzed the Google – DoubleClick acquisition sustained the transaction should go forward because the two companies are not direct competitors in the advertising market, Reuters reported today. In case you missed the news, a few months ago, the Mountain View super giant announced that it has reached a deal with DoubleClick, a top player on the advertising market to acquire ... [read more >>] | | 31 October 2007, 04:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Australian Skiers Are a Menace for Living Fossil Marsupials |  | When you hear about hibernation, you instantly think about the northern snowed plains and marmots, ground squirrels and hedgehogs. But in the generally snowless Australia, its highest mountains are the ‘home’ of the only hibernating marsupials. The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) was first discovered as a fossil till the first individual of this mouse-sized species was captured in 1966 in a ski hut on Mount Hotham.
A new resear ... [read more >>] | | 30 October 2007, 06:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Wants Special Laws for Its Products |  | Today, Google rolled out a new flavor of YouTube, addressing especially the Australian users which are now capable to access and publish clips on their own version of the video sharing service. Just like the other versions of YouTube, the Australian one comes with translated interface and other elements which bring the local partners' content on the main page.
Although the release of the Australian YouTube is pretty impo ... [read more >>] | | 23 October 2007, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Plasma Displays and LCDs Might Be Banned by 2011 |  | While the consumer electronics manufacturers try their best in order to come up with increasingly wider and more vivid plasma and LCD displays, it would seem that the legal future of these devices might be uncertain, due to the fact that they require quite a lot of power in order to work. And this is exactly the reason why the Australian government is seriously taking into consideration the possibility of banning said families of displays ... [read more >>] | | 15 October 2007, 12:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| YouTube Fighting Against Japanese Whaling |  | The Australian authorities which are trying to stop Japan from whaling in the Antarctic turned to YouTube in a desperate move to convince the world that such a move might kill several species of these creatures. Australia's Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull published a clip on YouTube to convince the Japanese officials that they must stop their attempts to capture the whales. Reuters reported that Japan wants to hunt 50 ... [read more >>] | | 10 October 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Full Wiretap Solutions for Aussies |  | In case you were wondering what has been happening around the world in cyber-security, here’s a piece of news coming straight from Australia! The Australian Crime Commission is now trying to get the best wiretapping software they can. As ComputerWorld informs, they want to acquire a fully integrated telephone and data interception, recording and monitoring system that enables the legally authorized interception, storage, analysis ... [read more >>] | | 08 October 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Makes New Friends in Australia |  | The Mountain View company signed new deals with several Australian companies that will use the search giant's products through their websites. Julian Persaud, Head of Business Development, said that all the new partners who joined the Google alliance will implement the best search technology on the web on their websites as well as the most popular advertising solution, AdSense. As you probably know, AdSense is an advertising ... [read more >>] | | 27 August 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Motorola Motorokr Z6 Duo Aria Unleashed |  | Motorola Australia has just announced the launch of the Motorokr Z6 Duo Aria edition in order to provide direct access to the Motorola ARIA (Australian Recording Industry Association) chart right from the handset, with no additional efforts.
The new handset will also come packed with a bonus content card and the brand new wireless MOTOROKR S9 Bluetooth stereo headphones. All these are meant to provide the most evolved ... [read more >>] | | 24 August 2007, 06:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Australian Government Goes to Wikipedia to Edit Articles |  | Wikipedia is again brought in the spotlights after the Australian government visited the official page of the Internet encyclopedia in order to edit some articles. According to the reports, the Australian Prime Minister's staff turned to Wikipedia and modified several entries such as 'Children Overboard Affair' or 'Mandatory Detention'. "Other edits included deleting the nickname of "Captain Smi ... [read more >>] | | 24 August 2007, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Phishing in Australia |  | What's happening here is something very well organized. Instead of scam messages being sent to everyone around the world, the scammers have limited themselves to Australia. This is quite an efficient tactic, since the content of the scam messages is bound to concern only Australians. What they are aiming at is Westpac's clients. This is the fourth largest bank in Australia and one of the largest banks in the southern Pa ... [read more >>] | | 23 August 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Maps Evolves, Appears on The Main Google Page |  | Google Maps Australia has always been a top service at the Australian Googleplex and sometimes, the users from outside this country were somehow envious that the Australians are the first to receive the latest updates. Well, we now have an explanation for the numerous updates introduced in Google Maps for Australia: the team working for the search giant wanted to improve the service in order to publish it on the main page of Goog ... [read more >>] | | 23 August 2007, 02:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| After YouTube, Google Maps Become Embeddable |  | The search giant Google updated the Australian flavor of Google Maps making the service embeddable in the search results. Basically, every time a new user searches the Internet for a certain business such as bars or restaurants, the search engine will automatically display a map above the results. Just like usual, the Australian side of Google Maps is the first one which receives the latest Google goodies so we should expect a gl ... [read more >>] | | 14 August 2007, 06:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google's Official Logo Brings You $10,000, Macbooks, Popularity |  | Google's doodles represent an interesting way created by the Mountain View company to celebrate special events or celebrities. Every once in a while, the search giant replaces the official logo of the company with a special doodle, usually placed on regional versions of the famous search engine. That's why Google started a new competition today, inviting the Australian schools to join a doodle designing contest that can ... [read more >>] | | 23 July 2007, 02:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google Sent to Court By the Government |  | A new important case was announced today by the Australian Government's watchdog, The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that sued Google Inc, Google Australia and Google Ireland for "misleading and deceptive conduct in relation to sponsored links that appeared on the Google website." Basically, the Mountain View company is sued because several adverts of "Kloster Ford" and "Charlestown ... [read more >>] | | 12 July 2007, 09:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Combined Phone and Broadband Cap in Australia at Optus |  | Optus Fusion is Australia's first combined phone and broadband cap. With this service, customers will be able to make unlimited calls only for a fixed monthly price.
By signing in for Optus Fusion Cap, the subscriber will receive unlimited local and national ... [read more >>] | | 12 July 2007, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| First Business WiMAX Network in Australia |  | Australia has never had business WiMAX services until now. Great news for them, Alvarion will provide their wireless broadband solutions to Allegro from now on to further be offered to thousands of potential users.
It is quite unusual that this type of services have not been ... [read more >>] | | 03 July 2007, 09:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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