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  • Social media boost revenue for SMEs MYOB research

    Research found 20 per cent of SMEs use social media for business purposes, with Gen Y the most prolific users (22 per cent), followed by Gen X (22 per cent), Baby Boomers (18 per cent) and 65 plus (9 per ...

  • Best Buy recalls 5100 MacBook Pro replacement batteries after reports of fire

    Best Buy has recalled about 5,100 replacement batteries for Apple's MacBook Pro laptops, after 13 reports that the battery caught fire, a U.S. consumer safety agency said.The ATG lithium-ion batteries can catch fire while charging, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement Wednesday.The recall covers both black and white ATG lithium-ion replacement batteries for ...

  • Faster fixed wireless speeds activated on the NBN

    NBN Co is targeting to cover 320,000 premises with fixed wireless and satellite by the end of this month, comprising around 70,000 premises on fixed wireless, according to its August 2012 corporate ...

  • 3-D printer maker Stratasys to acquire desktop rival MakerBot

    3-D printer company Stratasys is acquiring desktop 3-D printer maker MakerBot for over US$400 million in an all-stock deal, to shore up its consumer presence.Privately-held MakerBot has sold more than 22,000 3-D printers since it was founded in 2009, and its printers are increasingly used by a class of "prosumers" that includes individuals using the devices for professional purposes as ...

  • Comms Alliance expresses concerns with mandatory data breach notification

    The Communications Alliance has joined the Association for Data-driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA) in criticising the federal government's proposed mandatory data breach notification law, saying that the legislation will come at a cost to industry and that there was not enough ...


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Movie Review

Waking Life [DVD]

Richard Linklater has complained that there aren't enough ideas in movies these days--that is, beyond the idea of the "high concept," in which you can summarize everything a movie is about in two sentences--so he went out and made one that is about nothing but ideas and certainly cannot be summarized in two sentences. The result, Waking Life, is simple in conception, but mind-boggling in i ... ...

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