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| Optus Unveiled Its Totally Unlimited Plan and Its SecureCam Monitoring Solution |  | Optus, the second largest mobile carrier in Australia, has announced the availability of two new unlimited voice and messaging plans. Called "‘yes’ Timeless," the new plan will offer to the Australian subscribers of Optus unlimited national calls and unlimited messages to any national GSM network.
There are two versions of the new plan:
– a $99 per month one, which includes, besides unlimited voice calls, SMS and MMS ... [read more >>] | | 24 July 2008, 11:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung U900 and LG KF700 Released by Telstra |  | Telstra, the largest mobile operator in Australia, has recently released two new cool mobile phones to work on its Next G network: Samsung U900 Soul and LG KF700. The handsets are offered by Telstra under the names of Samsung U900T and LG KF700Q respectively. Both are sliders and both are available for retail prices of 879 Australian dollars (around 858 USD or 540 Euros).
[admark=1]Thanks to their HSDPA connectivity, the Samsung U9 ... [read more >>] | | 16 July 2008, 09:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hitman Scam Targets Australian Users |  | Why should scammers and spammers limit themselves to the Internet when there are far more mobile phone users than web surfers? In Australia there is a new scam going on, that attempts to separate people from their hard earned money by informing them that a hitman has been hired to kill them. Of course, you can get away with your life if you pay the scammer between $1,000 and $5,000. The proper law enforcement agencies have been informed a ... [read more >>] | | 12 July 2008, 07:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| BlackBerry Connect Announced for Australia's Moto Q |  | RIM and Motorola have recently announced the availability of BlackBerry Connect 4.0 for all the Asutralian users who own a Moto Q 9h Windows Mobile smartphone. BlackBerry Connect is a software that provides access to the useful and well-known BlackBerry services, offering support for push-email and attachment viewing via BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Moreover, BlackBerry Connect brings support for BlackBerry Mobile Data Sy ... [read more >>] | | 11 July 2008, 11:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fallout 3 Banned in Australia, No Reason Provided |  | Apparently, the Australian government does not like post apocalyptic scenarios too much. I say this because I can't see any other reason for the banning of the upcoming Bethesda title called Fallout 3 in the region. A governmental site shows the fact that the game h ... [read more >>] | | 10 July 2008, 10:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Residential VoIP Isn't a Favorite Down Under |  | VoIP is a global application that became popular as a business tool and that, afterwards, was easily adopted by domestic users. While the American and European market for the program are expanding rapidly, the evolution of the Australian one is a bit delayed.
The reasons for this vary from the lack of broadband in some regions or its high price, to the ''poor quality of service (QoS), number portability and high comp ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2008, 05:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Australia to Inaugurate Kaspersky Office |  | On a home front, Kaspersky software has been doing rather well recently, which has determined the company to expand. At the recent 10th annual partner conference held in St. Petersburg, Kaspersky let its worldwide partners in on the expansion plans, which include opening an office in Australia.
Eugene Kasperky, as cited by ... [read more >>] | | 08 July 2008, 06:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Telstra's iPhone 3G Released on July 11, Even For Free |  | Telstra is the last Australian mobile carrier to announce the upcoming launch of Apple's new iPhone 3G in Australia, after Optus and Vodafone have already presented their 3G iPhonesque plans.
While both Optus and Vodafone announced the iPhone 3G since ... [read more >>] | | 30 June 2008, 06:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HTC Touch Diamond Hits Australia in August |  | HTC Touch Diamond, the new and fashionable Pocket PC unveiled by HTC on the 6th of May in London, will be available in Australia starting mid-August. The handset is offered only by Telstra, the largest Australian mobile carrier, and will be available through all its shops and dealers across the Southern Hemisphere country.
In Europe, the Touch Diamond has a retail price of about 500 Euros (less than 800 USD). In Austra ... [read more >>] | | 27 June 2008, 11:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| iTunes Australia Offers New TV Shows |  | iTunes down-under version now includes popular TV shows such as "Desperate Housewives," "Lost," "South Park," "Pimp my Ride" and "McLeod’s Daughters," as a result of Apple having inked in deals with Australia’s top networks including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Seven Network and Nine Network.
US-produced programs from The Walt Disney Company’s ABC Studios, Disney C ... [read more >>] | | 26 June 2008, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Telstra Loves iPhone 3G Too |  | When Apple officially presented its new iPhone 3G, on June 9, it also unveiled the carriers to sell the handset around the world, starting July 11. At that time, only Optus and Vodafone were announced to offer the iPhone 3G in Australia, leaving out Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator.
But Telstra surely doesn't want to skip the advantages that the iPhone 3G can bring and, according to ... [read more >>] | | 20 June 2008, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Club Penguin Grows in Australia |  | Those of you who are hardcore Halo 3 or GTA IV fans probably don't know too much about the social online game Club Penguin, but it seems that most of the kids in the world do and, even more: they just love it! As solid proof stands the fact that Disney is planning to hire a team to manage the operation of the game in Australia - the user database has doubled since late last year to 800,000 registered members.
Ten months a ... [read more >>] | | 19 June 2008, 16:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sydney Apple Store Opens Today |  | Earlier this week, Apple was announcing the Grand Opening of its first Apple Retail Store in Australia. The company has also issued an official report revealing what customers can expect on the occasion.
The store's manager will open the doors at 5:00 p.m. for[ADMARK= ... [read more >>] | | 19 June 2008, 02:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Sydney Apple Store Grand Opening this Week |  | Apple has confirmed that the Grand Opening of the Sydney Apple Store will take place this week, on Thursday, June 19, at 5 pm. The first 2,500 customers through the door will receive limited edition T-shirts.
The Apple Store, Sydney is located at 367-373 George Street in Sydney, at the corner of King and George Streets.
Store hours are:
Mon - Wed, Fri, Sat: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Thu: ... [read more >>] | | 17 June 2008, 07:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Clumsy Australian Mobile Users Get Coaching Service |  | Leveraging on the fact that lots of mobile users don't actually know how to use all the features included in their handsets, Telstra, the largest Australian mobile carrier, has launched a new service that can instruct you in becoming more informed on what your handset can do for you.
Don't really know what's with all those buttons and icons that your phone's producer magically squeezed into the device? N ... [read more >>] | | 13 June 2008, 09:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Telstra Enhances Its Next G Network |  | Telstra, Australia's leading mobile carrier, together with Ericsson, have announced a new feature for the Next G Australian network, namely the so-called 3G Direct Tunnel. This 3G Direct Tunnel will allow Telstra's network to function at an increased capacity and, therefore, to support the continuously growing mobile broadband traffic.
Ericsson has called the activation of this new feature a "historic step&qu ... [read more >>] | | 11 June 2008, 11:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Patricia Field Invites Australia to "Destination Style New York" |  | If you had any doubts about the fact that fashion as seen on screen is all-powerful and knows no limits, or if you thought that Hollywood glamor was pretty much exclusive to American cinema, think again. Great fashion – particularly when it's conveyed via the silver screen and it's all about high-powered women making the most of their looks – is all-powerful, far-reaching and knows no borders. So much so, in fact, that ... [read more >>] | | 29 May 2008, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Australia Simply the Best, Russian Hackers Say |  | When talking about hackers, it doesn't matter in which country their targets are based because all they want are vulnerable targets that could let them break into their computers. However, when it comes to their favorite location to take over computer systems, it seems like Australia has something special because Russian hackers are mostly interested in this region of the world. Talking for ... [read more >>] | | 27 May 2008, 05:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| PlayStation 3 Outselling the Xbox 360 in Australia |  | Sony is really pushing hard for numbers to prove that the PlayStation 3 is just as competitive as the Xbox 360 from Microsoft when it comes to gaming consoles sales. Recently, the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, David Reeves, claimed that the absolute sales of the PlaySt ... [read more >>] | | 22 May 2008, 09:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Palm Centro Turns Australian |  | Palm recently announced that the popular Centro smartphone is getting a release in Australia, via Telstra, the country's largest mobile operator. The Centro will be available for 299 Australian dollars (about 287 USD), starting May 26 – apparently only for the Pre-Paid customers of ... [read more >>] | | 21 May 2008, 08:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Australians to Say Goodbye to Internet Freedom |  | What has already happened in other countries around the world, including here China, could also happen in Australia, as the local government wants to provide a subsidy to the country's ISPs in order to install filters and restrict access to certain online content, CNET Australia reported.
The Intern ... [read more >>] | | 14 May 2008, 03:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 |
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