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Apple offers to refund Australian iPad customers

Apple Wednesday offered to refund Australian customers who felt misled by advertising about the 4G capability of its new iPad, which can only access the ultra-fast wireless network in North America.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Toyota plant in Australia to build greener engines

(AP) -- Toyota will build a 300 million Australian dollars ($277 million) plant in Melbourne that will produce greener engines that deliver reduced carbon emissions, the company said Friday.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australian city's hottest night in 108 years

The Australian city of Melbourne has sweltered through its hottest night since 1902, with temperatures topping 34 degrees Celsius (93 degrees Fahrenheit), meteorologists said Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (19) | comments 32

Anti-Kadeer hackers mistakenly hit Australian arts site

Hackers protesting against the Australian visit of exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer mistakenly crashed the website of an arts festival with a similar name, organisers said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

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Banned antibiotics in Asian fish imports: Australia

Australian officials are seeing a rising number of Asian fish imports containing banned antibiotics, a report said Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fabrication of new elastic 'soft capsule' using nano-sized flakes

A research group headed by MANA Scientist Dr. Qingmin Ji of the National Institute for Materials Science (Japan), in joint study with Prof. Frank Caruso of the University of Melbourne, developed a new elastic ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Australians 'may have to choose what to save'

The responsibility for choosing which Australian native species survive – and which go extinct – may ultimately fall to ordinary Australians.

Biology / Ecology

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Building a better solar panel -- one molecule at a time

(Phys.org) -- One of the fundamental building blocks in modern chemistry, an organometallic chemical compound called ferrocene, has never been structurally defined - until now.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

ZTE scrambles to get at root of phone flaw

(Phys.org) -- Rattling phone security news surfaced this week for those owning ZTE Score M phones after an anonymous post to Pastebin.com reported a backdoor hole where others can gain control over a user& ...

Technology / Software

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

1,000 years of climate data confirms Australia's warming

In the first study of its kind in Australasia, scientists used 27 natural climate records to create the first large-scale temperature reconstruction for the region over the past 1,000 years.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 26

Bird color variations speed up evolution: research

Researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage colour forms within in the same population, evolve into new species faster than those with only one colour form, confirming a 60 year-old evolution ...

Biology / Evolution

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 39 | with audio podcast

Australia had 'globe-trotting' dinosaurs: study

Scientists said Monday a new fossil discovery suggested Australia's dinosaurs were cosmopolitan globe-trotters, unlike the "unique weirdos" of its current wildlife.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Huge scope to store water underground

There is potential to store large volumes of Australia’s precious fresh water underground, to offset climate change, avoid evaporation losses and meet national water needs into the future, leading water scientists say.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

US rapper Flo Rida served legal notice via Facebook

An Australian music festival promoter has served a damages claim against American rapper Flo Rida via Facebook, after a court allowed the social networking site to be used.

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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