Secret Voyeurs Video Site Takes Off In OZ Thousands of Australians are video chatting to random strangers around the world via a new web site that has been described as "frightening" because of its no-holds-barred explicit live content and video sex acts by strangers at the other end of a web camera.
10 Cent iPhone Music Streaming Coming From Apple Apple has confirmed it has purchased online music retailer Lala.com, a Silicon Valley startup that has threatened "the end of the MP3" with its fast song-streaming application.
One Interface A Hit With Telstra Telstra has revealed that its unique user interface, TelstraOne, not only allowed more users to get online, but also resulted to increased content and data revenues.
Optus App Store Takes On Apple Optus has launched a mobile application store that allows customers to purchase and download applications for their compatible 2G and 3G enabled Symbian, Android, Blackberry, Windows Media, and Java handsets.
Schools Turn To Apple For Online Lessons Apple has announced that public, private and Catholic schools from around Australia will now be able to publish educational content via K-12 on iTunes U.
Hot US Product Now On Sale in Oz Kindle, one of the hottest products this year, is destined for Australia. The book reader that has taken the US by storm will be available for pre-order today for US$279 and will begin shipping on October 19.
Shares In iiNet Tank As Hollywood Goes After Them Shares in Australia's third biggest ISP operation, iiNet, dropped 4.5 percent to $1.91 on the ASX yesterday, as the law suit levied by the movie industry's Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) moved into top gear in the Federal Court.
New Toshiba Gaming Beast To Take on PS3 & XBox 360 Toshiba Australia has confirmed that they will launch their high end media centre notebook the Qosmio X500 on October 22nd. The gaming beast is set to be used for both online and application gaming.
Flash Applications Now On The iPhone If there is one thing missing from the iPhone, it's the ability to play Flash files that irks a lot of users, now Adobe is making it easier for iPhone application developers to translate video code to Flash the move comes without the blessing of Apple.
Apple Hanging Out On Last Minute Reprive By Rapper Eminem Apple could be in strife, with lawyers for the Company forced to negotiate with legal representatives for rap star Eminem, after millions of dollars worth of content was sold in their iTunes store with permission.
Will Harvey Norman and JB Hi Fi Start Selling Books? Google is offering to publish millions of printed paperback books at US$8 a copy as it faces growing barriers in its plans to digitise millions of out-of-print books, in many cases without obtaining permission of the authors.
Pirates Download More Superhero Videos Watchmen and Heroes were the most illegally downloaded movie and TV show over the last six months, according to media measurement company Big Champagne.
New iPhone Bonking App Rates Your Sex Life Apple is offering up sex evaluation rankings, with the launch of a new iPhone application that measures just how good you are in bed.
iPhone Apps Downloaded Like Crazy Apple has announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from their Apple online application store with several major vendors now trying to copy the success of Apple.
The OZ Lotto Winner Is? The winner of tonight’s OZ lotto has not been named. But the winning numbers are 12/3/38/21/23/29/40 with supplementary numbers being 43 and 22.
Banking Scams Anger Consumers Users are heading to blogs, forums, and discussion boards to express their banking frustrations.
Telstra Banks on Video Ringtones In a move to introduce more downloads and encourage consumers to download more from their NextG network, Telstra has introduced video ringtones, available from 35 afflilated handsets.
Judge To Decide Fate Of DVD Copying A judge sitting alone will decide the fate of the Real Networks Vs Hollywood DVD copying case which was bought by the Motion Picture Association in an effort to stop the release orf a $29.95 piece of software that allows DVD's to be copied to a storage device.
Apple To Buy Twitter For $700M? Apple who have $40 Billion in cash reserves is close to buying Twitter according to industry speculation in Silicon Valley, the home of Apple.
PrePaid Porn Available At Fish And Chip Shops If you’re scared to offer up your credit card details to porn sites online, you can now buy all the porn you want by visiting your local newsagent, service station, hairdresser, bottle shop or fish and chip shop.
Spiral Goes Viral With Facebook Spiral Media and Sony Pictures are launching their first video viral campaign in Australia from 12 January 2009, leveraging the Superwall application on Facebook, which 50 million Facebook users have installed.
Cheap Cambridge Digital-Analogue Converter A new digital to analogue converter from Cambridge Audio claims its high-performance and cost make it one of the best on the market today.
IceTV Launch $1 A Week EPG IceTV is currently offering a promotion where you pay $49 for a year’s subscription to its EPG for $49, making it less than $1 per week.
Life-Saving Oz Phone App Released A new software application turns a range of smartphones into sophisticated personal satellite tracking system.
Google Pays Ancient Rome A Visit Want to walk the ancient streets of Rome without leaving your home? Now you can, thanks to a new Ancient Rome 3D layer designed for Google Earth.
Big Brown Box Set To Kickstart Online Retail War A bold new experiment in the online retailing of brown goods and consumer technology gadgets is set to be rolled out by Radio Rentals Its launch could spearhead an online war between 3 major retailers in Australia.
Foxtel Launch Channel Full Of Hits Those who want to see some of the surefire hits of yesteryear and those that have had a good run recently, will have to hit Foxtel’s new channel, 111 HITS, which comes to fruition on November 1, 2001.
BigPond First With Luhrmann’s Australia Trailer You won’t be seeing the next trailer of Baz Luhrmann’s much-anticipated Australia film on any cinema big screen or television. The producers have struck a deal with Testra meaning BigPond and Telstra Next G customers will get the first glimpse of the Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman epic.
33 Million Users For 3D Worlds By 2013 A new report has detailed that up to 33 million registered users will be on board the 3D virtual world train by 2013.
US Porn Boss Goes Down Under For A Fight A US porn boss is set to be appointed to the Adult Industry Copyright Organization’s (AICO) Board of Directors in Australia in an effort to stamp out adult film piracy.
Microsoft In Sync With $1.5 Billion MP3 Tune Microsoft has been thrown a lifelline after a federal court appeal was overturned in a damages claim that saw Microsoft ordered to pay France's Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion over patents related to MP3 technology.
IceTV Creates Facebook App IceTV has launched an application for Facebook, allowing users to rate and discuss shows.
ITunes 8 Complete With New Features Download Here Not content with rolling out new cheap iPods Apple Apple has introduced iTunes8, which includes the new breakthrough Genius feature, which let you automatically create playlists from songs in your music library that go great together—with just one click.
NetSuite Business App For Google Chrome Well it’s only been on the market for a week but already software developers are coming on board with Google’s Chrome Browser, with NetSuite being the first cab off the rank. NetSuite, a vendor of on-demand, integrated business management software, announced its support for the Google Chrome Browser.
Police Nick Guns And Roses Blogger Over Music Theft LA Police have arrested a blogger who allegedly stole new music tracks that have been 14 years in the making created by rock legends Guns & Roses and then posted them online.
Telstras Free MP3s Leave Apple Rotten BigPond is now offering DRM-free MP3 music downloads; a format that is compatible with all standard music players including the popular iPod as well as Sony Walkman and a wide range of portable digital music players and home media centres.
Bigpond Offers DRM-Free MP3 Bigpond has just announced that it will be providing users with DRM-free music, allowing users to transfer tracks from their computer to almost any music player. An MP3 track will cost $1.49 for Bigpond members or $1.69 for non-members.
3G iPhone Apps Earning Apples Million Every Month In the month since Apple opened its iPhone App Store available to independent developers - users have downloaded more than 60million programs, CEO Steve Jobs says. While most are free, Apple sold paid apps at an average of $1 million a day for about $30 million over the month, he said.
Ticketek Botch-Up Exposes Customers To Spam Tens of thousands of Ticketek customers may soon be on the receiving end of spammers thanks to an internal blunder by a staff member.
Federal Police Taget Dodgy Gear And Gamers Backyard operators in Australia who are selling equipment that allows users to play pirated games on Xbox and Nintendo DS are set to be targeted by the Federal police who during the past 6 months have been investigating DVD and movie counterfeiting and the illegal copying of Foxtel SIM cards.
Tech Goods EBay Retailer Goes Bust Owing Millions Consumers who purchased consumer electronic goods from an EBay online trader are set to be compensated millions by both PayPal Australia and credit card companies after the retailer went bust selling consumer electronic goods such as universal remotes, HD cables AV and iPod accesories.
Lonely Planet Language App For iPhone Lonely Planet has launched its Audio Phrasebooks for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. This application aims to provide travellers with access to its phrasebook content in 10 languages.
Neighbours Forced To Become Online Buddies According to a report from News Ltd, the popular Aussie soap Neighbours is to be made available on the YouTube social networking website.
Nokia Adds Warner Artists To Music Site Nokia has today announced that Warner Music Group will make its diverse catalog of artists available through Nokia Music Stores as well as through the upcoming Comes With Music service that will be launched in the second half of 2008.
Top 10 Free Applications for your home computer There’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is a plethora of free software you can download to your PC – from anti-virus applications through to new upgrades, these freebies are designed to make your life easy. Unfortunately there’s also a lot of crap floating around in cyberspace, so we’ve enlisted the aid of our SmartHouse IT guru, to give you the heads up on 10 of the best…
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