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		<title>Microsoft in talks to buy Yahoo search at $20 bln</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Griffin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The on again off again courtship between Yahoo and Microsoft has taken another turn. The Redmond software giant, is in talks to buy Yahoo Inc.&#8217;s search business for $20 billion. Microsoft does not plan to bid for all of the Internet-services giant, after it abandoned a $47.5 billion proposal last summer. Under a deal the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google voice search on iPhone confused by Aussie accents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s new voice-recognition search tool for the iPhone has problems understanding Australian accents, leading to some bizarre answers to spoken queries.
Users down under have noticed searches for the word &#8220;iPhone&#8221; can return pages of results for &#8220;priceline&#8221;, &#8220;mustang&#8221; or simply a message saying &#8220;try again.&#8221;
The number eight becomes a search for &#8220;ike&#8221;, seven turns into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian 419 scams now hitting Paypal</title>
		<link>http://grifflive.com/tech-and-gadgets/168/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t send the money back
A VARIANT of the extremely popular Nigerian 419 scam is possible via Paypal, the INQ has discovered. On paper it looks bulletproof but it&#8217;s still a big con.
The 419 scam is named after the relevant section of the Nigerian Criminal Code and the premise is always the same. Somebody offers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aussies revolt over government&#8217;s censorship plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian government&#8217;s plans to set up a Chinese style firewall and censor the web so that it only says good things is facing a backlash from important political activists.
The group which helped free David Hicks and abolish Work Choices scheme, GetUp, has now set its sights on the Government&#8217;s censorship plans.
GetUp plans to run [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vodafone offers free laptop Down Under</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DELL AND VODAFONE will offer the computer maker&#8217;s compact netbook computer for nothing as part of a mobile broadband plan in Australia and New Zealand.
The Dell Mini 9 weighs just over 1kg and, with a small 8.9-inch screen. It is part laptop, part smartphone and we think a badger might have been involved in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google broke App Store rules</title>
		<link>http://grifflive.com/tech-and-gadgets/165/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs does not like people breaking Apple&#8217;s rules and right now he is mightily miffed at the search engine Google which seem to have broken one of his commandments which he set in stone.
When Steve approved the rules of Apple&#8217;s iPhone Software Development Kit he demanded developers use APIs that come from his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet café fined $82k for copyright breaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Sydney Internet café raided by Australian Federal Police late last year has pleaded guilty to 40 charges of copyright infringement, copping an $82,000 fine, court costs and forfeiting some 60 computer terminals and three servers.
The company, Interville Technology, which was based in Pitt Street in the CBD, plead guilty at Downing Centre Local Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to buy Twitter</title>
		<link>http://grifflive.com/tech-and-gadgets/163/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SOCIAL networking company Facebook has recently been in acquisition talks with Twitter, the micro-blogging company, according to a report by the Financial Times.
The negotiations put a valuation of as much as $US500 million ($767 million) on Twitter, which has become one of Silicon Valley&#8217;s most closely watched start-ups, the paper said.
The talks, which were first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$1 billion upgrade for Perth Airport</title>
		<link>http://grifflive.com/general-stuff/162/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Griffin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today as i read the paper i noticed a story that made me smile, and in some small way justify my continual love hate relationship with Perth Airport. As part of the planned $1 billion upgrade which has been touted as the saviour for what i think is currently an embarrassment on a huge scale, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iiNet sued over BitTorrent piracy</title>
		<link>http://grifflive.com/tech-and-gadgets/161/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Griffin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know BitTorrent piracy is always in the news, both here and overseas. Well iiNet is being sued over BitTorrent piracy by the major film companies and Chanel 7. I&#8217;m currently a Westnet customer using ADSL 2 with a combined 60GB monthly limit and now that Westnet is under the iiNet banner this [...]]]></description>
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