Review: Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Sunday, 14 March 2010 04:00

altBattlefield: Bad Company 2 retains and builds upon the tongue-in-cheek destructive action of the original.  In spite of the themes, it is difficult to not play through a session of this action game without an accompanying cheesy grin.

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Doctor that invented PSA test says No
Sunday, 14 March 2010 04:00

The U.S. physician who created the prostate-specific antigen test, the PSA test, back in 1970 says the prostate-cancer screening test is “hardly more effective than a coin toss.”


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Birds smaller due to warmer temps
Sunday, 14 March 2010 04:00

A Swiss-U.S. study has found that over the last half century North American birds have become smaller by about 1.3% in mass. The fairly rapid evolution to a more compact size is concluded to be caused by climate change.

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Motorola marries Microsoft's search and maps to Google's Android
Sunday, 14 March 2010 04:00

Motorola has formed a global alliance with Microsoft to deploy Bing services on Motorola's Android based devices, to give consumers an alternative to Android's creator, Google, for search and map functions on their Android-based devices.

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OnLive cloud based gaming announces dates and prices
Saturday, 13 March 2010 15:00

It was the Game Developers Conference in 2009 were online cloud based gaming service OnLive first announced their plans to rid the world of video-game consoles.  GDC 2010 OnLive is ready to announce pricing and imminent go-live dates.

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NetSuite hitches wagon to Google
Saturday, 13 March 2010 15:00

SME cloud computing specialist NetSuite has announced its intent to hook up with Google and offer its enterprise resource planning suite through the Google Apps marketplace – however it hasn’t said when the service might be available.

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Five ISS countries want space ops through 2028
Saturday, 13 March 2010 15:00

The space agencies for the United States, Russia, Canada, Europe, and Japan are eager to use the International Space Station for expanded scientific experiments, possibly through the year 2028.

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Telstra buoyant as Fielding grandstands on reform
Saturday, 13 March 2010 15:00

The Rudd Government's proposed telecommunications reform legislation has given Steve Fielding the opportunity to make a hero of himself in front of 1.4 million Telstra shareholders – by voting against it.

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... jetpack?
Saturday, 13 March 2010 15:00

The Martin Aircraft Company's launch of the world's first commercially available jetpack is perhaps the best thing to ever happen to my future career as a secret agent.

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Opposition filter stance to await legislation
Saturday, 13 March 2010 03:00
Shadow Communications Minister Tony Smith (pictured) today said the Opposition would not release a formal stance on the Federal Government’s internet filtering project until after the planned legislation for the project was released.
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Vendors circle the wagons around IE zero-day
Saturday, 13 March 2010 03:00
Security vendors are scrambling to provide protection for the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that Microsoft disclosed earlier this week.
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