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The internet naming board Icann has decided to allow the number of internet “domains” to expand enormously in one of the biggest changes ever to the internet’s method of naming sites. New website suffixes should start appearing late in 2012 and could be categorised by subjects including industry, geography and ethnicity and include Arabic, Chinese [...]
More than 1000 people are to lose their jobs as outdoors clothing chain Colorado, battered by debt and grim trading conditions, becomes the latest retailer to shut its doors. A going-out-of-business sale will empty Colorado’s 109 shopfronts across Australia and New Zealand within five weeks, slashing by one-third the size of the chain’s parent company, [...]
Researchers have linked prolonged TV watching with an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease. Every additional two hours spent in front of the box each day raises the diabetes risk by a fifth and heart disease risk by 15%, a study found. Switching it off and doing something more strenuous instead could stop two people [...]
Australia has substantially lifted its rate of organ donation with more patients benefiting from life-saving transplants. Parliamentary secretary for health and ageing Catherine King said Australia had achieved a 19 per cent increase in organ donation and transplants in the first five months of this year, compared with the same period last year. She said [...]
Sony is still reeling from its many, many hacker-related problems over the last few weeks. It was only yesterday that Sony finally managed to bring its PSN Store back online across the globe and then, as if the universe was trying to really kick them when they just thought things were getting better, the Music [...]
Letter from Banta Singh to Mr. Bill Gates Subject: Problems with my new computer Dear Mr. Bill Gates, We have bought a computer for our home and we have found some problems, which I want to bring to your notice. 1. There is a button ‘start’ but there is no ‘stop’ button. We request you [...]
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