Entertainment
4:30PM Seamus Byrne | Foxtel today announced their new IPTV On-Demand video service for iQ2 has gone live. Announced back in August, it’s a deeper service than Foxtel previously had on offer, which is good news for those looking for more variety when you just want to watch exactly what you want to watch. More »
What Are You Willing To Pay For IPTV On-Demand?
4:30PM Seamus Byrne | Foxtel today announced their new IPTV On-Demand video service for iQ2 has gone live. Announced back in August, it’s a deeper service than Foxtel previously had on offer, which is good news for those looking for more variety when you just want to watch exactly what you want to watch. More » 
Announcements
1:30PM Nick Broughall | If you haven’t yet entered our reader survey, get a move on! You’ve only got until Monday END OF TODAY to tell us about yourself so we can try and make the site even better. Oh, and you could win a $3648 prize package from Sony including a 46-inch TV and TX5 digital camera! More »
Enter Our Reader Survey To Win Awesome Stuff
1:30PM Nick Broughall | If you haven’t yet entered our reader survey, get a move on! You’ve only got until Monday END OF TODAY to tell us about yourself so we can try and make the site even better. Oh, and you could win a $3648 prize package from Sony including a 46-inch TV and TX5 digital camera! More »
Science
New Technology That Captures "exciton" Particles Could Replace Today’s Solar Cells
1:20PM Alasdair Wilkins | Even the most efficient solar cell loses a lot of energy in the form of wasted heat. But the electron-like particles that photons emit as they enter the cells could be turned into electrical energy, solving the heat loss problem. More »
Online
Facebook’s Rolling Out High-Resolution Photo Sharing
12:40PM Adam Pash | As a big fan of photo-sharing site Flickr, one of the most frustrating things about the popularity of photo sharing on social-networking site Facebook has always been the relatively terrible quality of Facebook’s highly compressed photos. Starting today, that’s changing. More »
Software
The Tango iPhone App: My New Favourite Way To Make Video Calls Over 3G
12:10PM Rosa Golijan | Up until now, whenever I wanted to make funny faces at my boss but didn’t have the Wi-Fi connection necessary for Facetime, I used the Fring app over 3G. Now I’ve got a new favourite app for those times: Tango. More »
Software
Which Android Browser Is Fastest?
12:00PM Brian Barrett | One prime attraction of Android? That super-quick—especially on Froyo—native browser. But if you’ve got a need for speed, is it possible that there’s a better option out there? Yes, actually. More »
Phones
11:30AM Seamus Byrne | The Android Marketplace has finally rolled out paid app privileges to more countries, and this time that means Australia as well. For local developers eager to embrace Android’s more open platform, but had to give their work away for free to do it, the 2-minute noodle days may be over. Now all you need is an app that’s good enough people will pay money for it… More »
Australian Android Developers, Go Make Some Money
11:30AM Seamus Byrne | The Android Marketplace has finally rolled out paid app privileges to more countries, and this time that means Australia as well. For local developers eager to embrace Android’s more open platform, but had to give their work away for free to do it, the 2-minute noodle days may be over. Now all you need is an app that’s good enough people will pay money for it… More »
Games
You’re Effing Downloaded: The Kenny Powers App
11:20AM Owen Good | Kenny Powers, the washed-up lout protagonist of the sports comedy Eastbound & Down on HBO, has his own 16-bit inspired home-run derby game, free on the iPhone. You can use a donkey to distract him into throwing a meatball pitch. More »
Design
How A Blind Architect Still Practices His Trade
10:40AM Brian Barrett | Chris Downey lost his sight just two and a half years after taking over a design firm’s architecture practice. The Atlantic explains how today, he’s in some ways even more effective at his craft than ever before. More »
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