APC articles by Alex Kidman

China delays Net filtering; Australia sticks to its guns
As China backs off from controversial PC filtering plans, Australia is looking to expand its censorship net, with plans to ban computer games too.
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MyNetfone launches Naked ADSL2+
MyNetFone's naked ADSL2+ packs surprisingly good value -- $39 a month for 5GB peak usage. You could pay that much to Telstra just in line rental.
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TiVo launches movies-on-demand service
But first they'll demand some of your cold, hard cash upfront.
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ABC launches Android and iPhone applications
Access your ABC on a tiny screen, especially Android and iPhone -- but no Radio or Video at first.
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Ruslan Kogan unveils his new netbook
It's very cheap, and surprisingly for a cheap Netbook, it's pretty decent.
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Bluescreen: Top Five Sol Replacements
Hooray! It's official -- Telstra boss Sol Trujillo is quitting. Who will replace him? Bluescreen ponders the top five candidates who won't get the job.
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Kogan promises a Linux Netbook by the end of March
The outspoken Aussie tech maverick speaks out on Netbooks, general marketing and eBay.
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Wanna design your own netbook?
Kogan plans for Netbook include community consultation.
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Internet filters for idiots
Late last night, APC was approached by the Rudd Government's department-of-leaking-stuff-to-the-opposition with secret details of the net filtering plan.
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OLPC is dead: design now "open source"
PC makers are blamed for the "tragedy", but OLPC would still like them to make millions of laptops, please.
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Woman forced to pay cab fare with iPod
Ex-owner unhappy, driver unhappy after iPod substituted for taxi fare. Although in the cabbie's case it seems to be because it lacked headphones...
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Seagate hard drives suffering mass data loss
Now you see your data... now you don't. You can't even see the firmware upgrades to fix the problem, either.
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Second Google Android phone -- Kogan Agora -- "Delayed Indefinitely"
Got your heart set on one of Kogan's Android phones? Too bad.
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Ethical Trojan blocks Bittorrent sites
A fake keygen for pirated software tries to stop you pirating anything at all by blocking out popular Torrent sites. Hollywood probably loves it. Perhaps they even programmed it.
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Fake Phil Schiller: what Apple has in store for 2009
Bluescreen | We intercepted Fake Phil Schiller sneaking in to Steve Jobs' carspot at Cupertino and interrogated him on what Apple has in store for 2009...
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