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July 2008

Australian Government to censor the Internet

by adminJuly 28, 2008

If you’re like me you’ll be furious when you read the latest information the Australia Government has released on the proposed ISP-level filtering of online content.
Duncan Riley has stated his concerns over on his blog. Duncan was also responsible for the Techcrunch article that I linked to in my article back on the [...]

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Lego Beatles?

by adminJuly 28, 2008

What happens when you combine a bored photographer come designer, some lego, and a bunch of Beatles album covers? The Bootlego Beatles

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Bimbadgen Blues, Lineup Announced

by adminJuly 28, 2008

Now in its 9th year, Bimbadgen Blues is stamping its mark on the Australian event scene with 4,000 people expected to attend the one-day, six-hour festival this September 6th. Held at the picturesque Bimbadgen Estate, the line-up has now been finalised with headline acts Josh Pyke, Chain, Dallas Frasca and her Gentleman, Mojo [...]

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Want to see Here Come The Birds win UncharTED?

by adminJuly 21, 2008

Tooheys Extra Dry UncharTED 2008 Competition Grand Finals are here and we want you to join us at the party! To win one of five double passes to the gig being filmed for MTV at Sydney’s awesome Oxford Art Factory,

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Want to see Here Come The Birds win UncharTED?

by adminJuly 21, 2008

Tooheys Extra Dry UncharTED 2008 Competition Grand Finals are here and we want you to join us at the party!
To win one of five double passes to the gig being filmed for MTV at Sydney’s awesome Oxford Art Factory, on Thursday 24th July, tell us in 25 words or less who you think [...]

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Here Come The Birds, vote em into Splendour

by adminJuly 16, 2008

We’re at the serious end of the 2008 UncharTED competition and Newcastle indie rockers Here Come The Birds have the competition all but sewn up. … Tomorrow we’ve got a competition coming where you can win 1 of 5 double passes to the MTV filming of the Grand Final of the UncharTED competition at Sydney’s Oxford Art Factory..

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Here Come The Birds, and they’re ‘Splendourous’

by adminJuly 16, 2008

We’re at the serious end of the 2008 UncharTED competition and Newcastle indie rockers Here Come The Birds have the competition all but sewn up. With only 5 days of voting left to go head on over to the UncharTED website and cast your vote.

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Issue #24 - TZU

by adminJuly 14, 2008

The latest Reverb Street Press is now online and ready for you to download. As always this issue is jammed packed with everything you need to know about the local music scene, stop reading this and start downloading it now!

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Vodafone iPhone prices, ‘pls use only as phone kthx’

by adminJuly 10, 2008

Vodafone Australia just let loose their iPhone pricing, it’s not great at all. Kind of suprised considering their data plans for their mobile broadband are the best in Australia.
It seems to me that they are clearly treating this as a mobile phone and not a mobile internet device at all.
Screencaps from Vodafone Online Store

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Vodafone has no iPhone, Optus leading the pack

by adminJuly 9, 2008

Here in Newcastle you’re probably better off getting the Telstra version if you want the full 3G data speed, if you’re prepared to wait until the end of the year then both Optus and Vodafone will / should have 3G in Newcastle (I heard this from Vodafone at Kotara). … I have a Vodafone Mobile Broadband account that works off of their 3G service and while it’s no where near as fast as my dsl at home I can easily browse a couple of websites whilst chatting in my instant messenger client without it being frustrating.

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Telstra hates on Newcastle, loves Dubbo?

by adminJuly 9, 2008

The iPhone ‘fuckups’ continue. This time it’s Telstra who have decided to pretty well not sell the iPhone. ZDNet reported late this afternoon that Telstra will only be selling the iPhone in 15 stores Australia wide. This is a bigger WTF than Vodafone’s lack of pricing.

The nation’s biggest telco Telstra today said it would sell [...]

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Vodafone has no iPhone, Optus leading the pack

by adminJuly 9, 2008

We’ve seen the official pricing of the iPhone from Optus for a day or so now, we’ve seen most of Telstra’s pricing, but we’ve still not sen anything from Vodafone? wtf
For around 20 minutes or so earlier today Vodafone had some publicly released pricing on their website but for some strange reason they removed it. [...]

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