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www.smh.com.au  TECH DAILY

Monday November 13, 2006


Kiwis give texting the thumbs up

New Zealand's high school students will be able to use "text-speak" in national exams this year.


Hi tech T-shirt really rocks

Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air.


Gran's canyon is a net sensation

Australian granny revealed as the person who discovered the intriguing Canadian rock formation that looks like an iPod-wearing, native American.




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Retired tech entrepreneur strives to leave a mark on science around the world

He might be the most active philanthropist you have never heard of: a retired technology entrepreneur putting his stamp on science research centres at the world's top universities and sponsoring what he hopes will be 21st-century versions of the Nobel Prizes.


Former MTV executives create hip lifestyle shows for Internet

Shortly before dinner at a trendy new restaurant in Manhattan's theatre district, a production crew started setting up.


Deutsche Telekom CEO resigns amid after company's profit dwindles

Deutsche Telekom AG Chief Executive Kai-Uwe Ricke will step down from Europe's biggest telecommunications company on Monday, the company said late Sunday.


Ex-MTV Execs Create Hip Internet Shows

Shortly before dinner at a trendy new restaurant in the theatre district, a production crew started setting up. They arranged lights, checked the cameras and put a microphone on the sushi chef Masatoshi "Gari" Sugio. Soon they would be filming at the Sushi of Gari 46 and interviewing the famed chef.


India adds record 6.6 million mobile phone subscribers in October

Cellular phone subscribers rose in India by a record 6.6 million in October, keeping the country's place as the world's fastest-growing mobile phone market, according to data released over the weekend.


Korean War Dead Memorialized on the Web

The message was simple: Write a letter to someone lost in the Korean War. Within a day, responses started pouring in for the latest effort by brothers Hal and Ted Barker to remember the war their father didn't like to discuss. In the three weeks since their plea went out, more than 500 letters and e-mails have arrived _ from daughters who lost their fathers to veterans who lost friends to schoolchildren thanking those who died for their freedom.



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Microsoft embraces the Aussie vernacular

Microsoft has decided to get fair dinkum about Australian colloquialisms by including some in its 2007 version of Microsoft Office.


Don't leave me this way

From tequila texting to vitriolic blogs, the aftermath of a break-up can be more publicly humiliating than ever before, writes John Luu.


Hunters and collectors

The race is on to digitise the world's literature, writes Laurence Benhamou.


COLUMNS

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What lies ahead

Nintendo is banking on its Wii magic wand but Sony and Microsoft's main weapon will be high-definition gaming, writes Jason Hill.


IN REVIEW

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Games imitate life

Gay relationships are finally appearing in games, writes Jason Hill.



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