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[Maz]

GOOGLE ACQUIRES AUSTRALIAN TECHNOLOGY
MOUNTAIN VIEW - 04/17/06 - Google Inc. has acquired "Orion" search engine technology from an Australian university that the institution described last year as potentially revolutionary, reports the IDG News Service.
Google has also reportedly hired the PhD student who developed the technology.
The Orion acquisition and Allon's hiring happened "months ago," the spokesman wrote, but news about this issue began to surface in recent days, starting with reports from media outlets in Australia and Israel, the student's native country, IDG rexcently reported.



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[Maz]

Spammer faces slammer

By Stuart Corner Thursday, 20 April 2006 The ACMA has secured a successful prosecution in the first case taken to court under the 2003 Anti-Spam Act, against West Australian company Clarity1 and its managing director, Wayne Mansfield. The ACMA claimed that, in the 12 months after the Act came into force, Clartiy1 sent out at least 56 million emails most of which were unsolicited and in breach of the Act.

Clarity1 claimed that these were sent to people who had opted to receive them, or to lists gathered before the Act came into force. Both these defences were rejected by Justice Nicholson in the Federal Court in Perth.

ACMA chairman, Chris Chapman said the case was an important test case and "should give Australians confidence in the effectiveness of this important legislation."

The court has not yet decided what penalties to impose.0

[SirLurkalot]

Is Google in the dictionery yet? It should be.

[Maz]

SkypeIn now with Australian phone numbers.

By Stuart Corner Sunday, 30 April 2006 Skye has added Australian phone numbers to its SkypeIn service, enabling anyone to have an Australian phone number calls to which will be received by their Skype softphone.

Australia is the first country in the Pacific region and 14th in the world where SkypeIn is available. Others are: USA, UK, Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Sweden and Switzerland.

The service comes with voicemail and costs $A50 for 12 months, or $A16 for three months.
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