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The Australian government faces a rebellion by the country’s ISPs over its plan to filter Net content and block 10,000 sites. Initial trials of the system were due to begin before Christmas, but Telstra, the country’s largest ISP, has said it will not participate, as has Internode, while others have said they will only support a smaller system that blocks access to a 1300-strong list of sites hosting illegal content,… Read More

Never let it be said the digital media revolution is bypassing the car audio industry: Blaupunkt has just taken the wraps off its new Melbourne SD27 car stereo system. Instead of offering a traditional CD player/changer or even a dock for those iPod things all the kids are carrying, the Melbourne SD27 opts for a front-panel auxilliary input, and an SD/MMC card slot so owners can use a PC to load up removable media with their tunes, then and… Read More

The words “MySpace” and “genocide” don't often appear in the same sentence—usually it's just “stalking” or “school bomb threat”—but today social networking giant MySpace announced a partnership with humanitarian organization Oxfam and nearly two dozen bands to raise awareness of—and funds for—the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. The… Read More