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Broadband for Arnhem Land
From the ABC’s 7:30 report, a good news story about the Broadband Revolution coming to Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. A fibre optic cable has be laid into Arnhem Land. This is great story in so many ways: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnhem Land, internet, traditional owner
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ABC (au) Radio National launches Pool
via Boing Boing ABC Radio National has launched Pool: It’s a place to share your creative work with the Pool community and ABC producers – upload music, photos, videos, documentaries, interviews, animations and more. It’s a collaborative space where audiences … Continue reading
Radiohead’s "House of Cards" video made without cameras
I am a big fan of Radiohead, their album In Rainbows and cool uses of technology, so this is the kind of think I like. The video for “House of Cards” from In Rainbows was not shot with cameras in … Continue reading
NSW education downgrades Microsoft
via Jeff Waugh’s Be the signal. The Australian Financial Review reports NSW education downgrades Microsoft. “The NSW Department of Education has put Microsoft on notice after it agreed to extend its software licensing agreement for just one year instead of … Continue reading
Google's Photovoltaic System
This is kind of a follow up to my previous post on Green Computing. IT Conversations has posted a talk by Anthony Ravitz, Project Coordinator, Real Estate & Workplace Services, Google, about Google’s installation of photovoltaic cells on the roof … Continue reading
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Negroponte on why OLPC needed to be non-profit
The Science Show (Radio National, ABC Australia) recently broadcast Nicholas Negroponte’s address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston. He spoke about the OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, being interested in both education and technology … Continue reading
Green Computing
From IT Conversations Phil Windley’s interview with Jeremy Faludi about Green Computing. I highly recommend listening to this. They address the environmental aspects of computing from the massive amount of power used by data centers to the chemicals used in … Continue reading
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2,000,000,000th photo on flickr
The TWO BILLIONTH photo has been uploaded to flickr and it was taken in Sydney
iPhone iRony or: How Steve Jobs was an AT&T Hacker
From Real Geek: Back in 1971, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (founders of Apple Computer Inc.) went into business to build ‘Blue Boxes’. A device that allowed free illegitimate phone calls by faking the signals used by AT&T (Apple’s exclusive … Continue reading
Why Safari on Windows?
When I watched the WWDC keynote found it interesting that when talking about how Safari on Windows would increase Safari’s share of the browser market, that Steve Jobs’ slide showed IE’s share staying static and Safari’s share increased at the … Continue reading