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Sydney residents stop drinking XXXX Export and making fun of the wankers in Melbourne to wait in line for the opening of a new Apple Store, where they were greeted by the typical forced enthusiasm from employees. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT LIVE! THIS THING SUCKS!" by
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Australian police want pedestrians to know: trendy white iPod headphones can kill. New South Wales police commissioned several morbid posters in which slain pedestrians are outlined by the white wire of an iPod headphone instead of chalk. The odd thing is, Austrailian traffic services commander John Hartley admits there is little evidence to show Apple's iPods or any other digital music players have actually led to anyone's death. Hartley
told the Sydney Morning Herald police reports only go so far as to note "pedestrian distraction."
Although we have seen no increase in pedestrian incidents over recent years, the growth and uptake of these new technologies could be a potential problem...
But don't let the fact that there is no statistical call for this public awareness campaign stop you from enjoying more scenes of gruesome iPod-wrought carnage, below.
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Cafe Brewhaha, a coffeehouse located in a fashionable suburb of Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, has taken a stand against Facebook hysteria: It's
banned all mention of the social network within its walls. Sick of constant jabberings about friend requests and online popularity, cafe proprietor Daniel Mrocki declared such talk prohibited on the premise that people should have "normal conversations and not live behind these pseudo identities on the Internet." Yes, but where does he stand on the Scoble issue?
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Leave it to a former penal colony to rush to judgment. The Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has
already approved Google's $3.1 billion DoubleClick acquisition,
only six months after Google announced the deal in April. The commission found the two companies were not competitors. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission is expected to approve the deal, but it's taking its time while Microsoft's lobbyists spur noisy debate in Congress. Europe's the model of propriety here. Its regulatory body has already heard the case, but
wants more time to make further inquiries. The lesson in all this? Microsoft CEO
Steve Ballmer must not be too worried about his company's Australian prospects. Either that, or
Google's right-wing Australian mouthpiece, Rob Shilkin, is actually good at his job.
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TechGoss is noting a slip-up by News Corp's Austrialian newspaper Telegraph
misreported the Australia And New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) had outsourced its call center to India. ANZ responded with a correction stating it's call center was still Australia, only it's software development was done overseas. Telegraph editors stood by the story, so ANZ decided to make a withdrawal of AUS$5 million dollars in advertising.
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