Stories by Mitchell Bingemann

Crash! HD-DVD censorship diggs grave for news site

Popular news aggregation site, Digg.com has crashed after it opened up a Pandora's box of internet fury when it decided to censor users rather than face legal action from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for publishing a hacked key code for HD-DVD movies.

Star-Tech links uni students over wireless

In what could be either the best or worst news for student productivity, uni students at three Australian campuses are getting online thanks to a dedicated wireless network from BigAir and Star-Tech Communications.

CSIRO speeds wireless chip to 80 gigabits per second

The CSIRO is laying claim to developing the world's best breed of 200GHz millimetre-wave (mm-wave) amplifier and mixer chips that double wireless data transfer rates, while being more cost and power efficient than current wireless chips.

Sydney set to kick-off Google's worldwide developer day

Google's Sydney office is set to kick-start a 27 hour-long global Google Developer Day on May 31, where developers will get a chance to participate in workshops, keynotes and breakout discussions on Google's APIs (application programming interfaces).

Rush to see nude Bingle crashes GQ servers

An influx of curious Aussie men, eager to get a glimpse of Lara Bingle in the buff, have crashed the GQ Germany Web site after it published nude photos of the popular model.

X-Series marks the spot for flat-rate mobile data

In a first for Australian 3G mobile operators, Hutchison has launched a series of fixed-fee mobile data plans that do away with costly per-megabyte access and allow its 3 Mobile customers to use internet applications like Skype, eBay and MSN Messenger on their handsets.

Optus readies VoIP for SMBs

Optus has stepped forward as the first major telco to offer VoIP to the SMB sector with its announcement of two new VoIP services set to launch later this year.

Microsoft Software Legend on .NET 3.0, WCF and the future of software development

With a wealth of experience spanning back to his involvement on the .NET advisory council and more recently with the Windows Communication Foundation (formally known as Indigo) strategic design review, it's with little surprise that IDesign founder, Juval Lowy, is considered one of the world's top experts in all things .NET.

Community key for Second Life success

From virtual real estate to escort services and casinos, the virtual economy of Second Life is booming and now as the community grows to over 2.6 million registered accounts, more and more real life businesses are setting up shop and finding their feet in the virtual ether.

Gettys, set, go, for OLPC in 07

Jim Gettys has been a software pioneer on open source systems for over 20 years. From his role as a primary developer of the X Window System at MIT in 1984 (which forms the basis of Linux and Unix graphical interfaces), through to editing the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) HTTP/1.1 protocol and founding the handhelds.org project (from which all Linux handheld and mobile phone development stems from), the only thing Gettys hasn't tried his hand at is solving world hunger. But he decided to start with the developing world's education crisis first, and now finds himself as Vice President of Software for the One Laptop per Child project.

Red Hat rings NYSE bell

Bells are sounding early for Red Hat this holiday season, but its' not the Christmas type. The Linux specialist has made the jump from the NASDAQ Stock Market to the New York Stock Exchange in what is being touted as a coup for the NYSE and important move for open source.

ACMA approves 2.5Mbps upload speeds, Internode leads the way

Internode's push to increase broadband upload speeds by more than double has finally been registered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). And in the process it becomes the first ISP offering upload speeds at 2.5Mbps.

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