30 years ago, the first phone call was made on Australia’s public mobile network. This call was made on a car phone system weighing 14 kilograms with a 45cm handset and costing nearly $5000 (or $17,000 in today’s terms).
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Hacking Assistive Devices
Many of the assistive devices that we use in our day to day lives fall within the category of SCADA – Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition – devices. To better understand the concept here, lets look at the situation where …
Read moreTwitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-07
New Article: WD Slims 1TB Hard Drive to Fit Mainstream Notebooks http://www.newtricks.net.au/index.php/2011/08/wd-slims-1tb-hard-drive/ # Introducing the Transcend Ultimate Class 10 SDHC Cards http://is.gd/JcOecR # Carriers as well as retailer Harvey Norman to carry the BlackBerry PlayBook on launch day http://is.gd/FW3cOX # …
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Australian Census 2011
Please be sure to keep the evening of August 9, 2011 free; that’s the night of the upcoming census in Australia. Putting it very simply, if you are in Australia on this evening, then you will be required, by law, …
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