Australia's third largest ISP iiNet has been accused of inviting illegal downloads through its marketing messages by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) in the Federal Court today. As...
Topics: Information technology news - Internet

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Microsoft has reduced the subscription price of its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), and jacked up the mailbox size.
Topics: Information technology news - Software

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Pressure from open source luminary Eric S. Raymond led to geek feminists hosting code created by one of their detractors, which otherwise would have disappeared for good, a post on...
Topics: Open Sauce - Linux Blog

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A U.S. study has shown that taking statin drugs gives people a 50% less chance of dying from the flu. The drugs, which lower cholesterol, are thought by the researchers...

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If the Russian Federal Space Agency has its way, Russian cosmonauts will fly a nuclear-powered spacecraft on a space mission, possibly to the planet Mars, sometime after 2021.

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