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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
  5 days ago

• Rail and broadband in place of second Sydney airport

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  The Federal and New South Wales Governments are to conduct a joint study of options for additional airport capacity for Sydney. This follows a "National Aviation Policy White Paper" (16 December 2009). It should be noted that the paper is not just talking about an airport and mentions rail transport systems. I ...
  6 days ago

• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
  1 week ago

• NBN Broadband Plan

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  NBN Co have issued "NBN Co consultation paper: proposed wholesale fibre bitstream products" (21 December 2009) and invited written submissions (by 12 February 2010). Industry Briefing Sessions will be held in Sydney and Melbourne, (20 and 29 January 2010). The paper is 27 pages of PDF ...
  1 week ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
  1 week ago

• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Making up numbers

  
  Right Pulse — Authority: 125
  According to the Herald Sun, Rudd has said that going from a 23 mega bit connection to a 100 mega bit connection – at a cost of $43 billion plus –  as part of this National Broadband Network will: …reduce Australia’s carbon emissions by five per cent … Okkkayyyy. And this number comes from where? Rudd ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cisco says NBN going down the wrong path while Father of the Internet says it’s “stunning” and “impressive”

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 138
  Networking experts have discussed concerns that the national broadband network will put the nation on a $43 billion path “back to the future” by returning incumbent telcos to dominant market positions. Cisco Australia chief technology officer Kevin Bloch said that the NBN Co’s minimalist approach to building ...
  2 weeks ago

• Broadband to cut Australia’s carbon emissions: Rudd

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 138
  The roll-out of nationwide fast broadband will reduce Australia’s carbon emissions by five per cent, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says, reports AAP . The $43 billion project is an “historic act of nation building” that is essential for Australia to compete globally, he says. To read this AAP report in full, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australian government unveils regional fiber backbone plan

  
  Telecom Industry News — Authority: 143
  After it was revealed last month that it was close to naming its network construction partners, it looks like the Australian government is finally putting together the first piece of its National Broadband Network plan as it revealed it is building a 6,000 km regional fiber backbone. Heading up this effort will be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
  3 weeks ago

• Australian national broadband network turning into a hard sell to consumers

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 138
  The company set up to build the national broadband network doesn’t believe most consumers will be willing to pay for the maximum high-speed broadband service promised by the Rudd government, reports The Australian . The government announced in April it would create a fibre-to-the-home network with speeds of 100 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  4 weeks ago

• Realising Our Broadband Future

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  The Australian Government is hosting "Realising Our Broadband Future" in Sydney, 10-11 December 2009. Speakers include Mike Quigley (NBN Co), Vinton Cerf (Google), Paul Twomey (Internet Corporation), Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy and Kate Lundy (Australian Government) and David Bartlett (Tasmanian Government). The event ...
  4 weeks ago

• National Broadband Network Senate Report

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 138
  Interim report of the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network has been released. The report questions how far it will extend into regional areas and if there are measures to assess the performance of the NBN . The report is available as a set of web pages and PDF files chapter by chapter and as one ...
  4 weeks ago

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