'space ball' mystery solved - Sydney Morning Herald -
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‘space ball’ mystery solved Sydney Morning Herald The mysterious large metallic ball that fell out of the sky in Namibia, sparking… |
Big swell closes Sydney's beaches - Sydney Morning Herald -
 Sydney Morning Herald |
Big swell closes Sydney’s beaches Sydney Morning Herald A big swell which has closed up to half of NSW’s beaches today is set to… |
Selling Refurbished Goods As New May Be Common Among Australian Retailers - Gizmodo Australia -
Selling Refurbished Goods As New May Be Common Among Australian Retailers Gizmodo Australia With the recent news of one Dick Smith customer finding his “new” 1.5TB… |
LHC reports discovery of its first new particle - BBC News -
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LHC reports discovery of its first new particle BBC News By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) on the… |
Berkeley Explains Exactly Why It Chose Google Over Microsoft (GOOG, MSFT)
HOUSE OF THE DAY: A 6-Story Tribeca Loft With An Indoor Basketball Court Is On Sale For $45 Million -
A six-story 1862 limestone TriBeca loft is on sale for $45 million.
Inside the 30,000 square-foot mansion are eight bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, an elevator, a private gym, and half basketball…
Harvey Norman sells online offshore - Sydney Morning Herald -
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Harvey Norman sells online offshore Sydney Morning Herald Retail giant Harvey Norman, which has long complained about the rise of… |
ACMA warns Vodafone of fines under consumer privacy code - The Australian -
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ACMA warns Vodafone of fines under consumer privacy code The Australian Nigel Dews, chief executive of Vodafone Hutchison Australia, in… |
iPad2 Cover With Built-In Speakers Boosts Volume By 300%
Unhappy Christmas: $1120 for an empty box through eBay - Sydney Morning Herald -
 Sydney Morning Herald |
Unhappy Christmas: $1120 for an empty box through eBay Sydney Morning Herald Australian eBay customers lured by ultra-bargain… |
iTunes Match Goes Live Internationally [Headlines] -
Apple has launched a new service that allows users to access their music from the cloud
How To Turn Your Tablet Into A Productivity-Boosting Second Screen -
Tablets are great entertainment devices, but when compared to a computer they’re hardly as quick and useful for getting things done. But if you want your tablet to be more than just a fun little toy, it’s really just a matter of the right apps, attitude, and configuration. Here’s how you can turn your tablet into a handy, productivity-boosting tool.
4 out of 5 videos are encoded in H.264 -
A full 80 percent of videos are encoded in H.264 and, at least theoretically, could be delivered to an iPad with the HTML5 video tag, according to new data from MeFeedia. That doesn’t mean they will be, or that they are… just that if a video publisher wanted to use the same video asset for distribution on the iPad, it wouldn’t have to re-encode it. It would just have to switch out the video player from Flash to HTML5. The latest figures show just how far the industry has come in adopting the H.264 video format as the de facto standard for video encoding. The share of videos encoded in H.264 has risen from just 10 percent in January 2010, to 80 percent less than two years later.
A Hundred Million Suns by Avi Revivo
One Great Thing About North Korea's Stagnant Economy -
In September, Bloomberg’s Paul Allen reported that North Korea was hosting Chinese tourists in an effort to attract desperately needed investment funds from the world’s second largest…