Y2K Bug Strikes Australia 10 years Late. Saturday, January 2, 2010 © The Cairns Post As the rest of Australia welcomed 2010, Bank of Queensland computers skipped six years ahead to January 1, 2016. Yesterday, credit and debit card transactions were being rejected, with "card expired" messages printing on to Eftpos error receipts dated six years into the future. Cairns business owner Barry Jones said the glitch was costing sales at his Shields St T-shirt and souvenir shop, Sharky’s, with his main customers – tourists – reliant on the Eftpos service.
"A lot of people from overseas don’t carry Australian currency, it’s just cards," Mr Jones said. He said he spent 45 minutes yesterday morning listening to the bank helpline’s hold messages, while also serving customers, before giving up on getting through to an operator. John Collingwood, owner of Kuranda’s Australis Art Gallery, said he was worried about weekend trade after bank staff told him they did not know how long the problem would take to fix. Share this article.
Type n Walk mobile app Boing Boing. Firefox for mobile 'days away' from launch. The mobile browser has been in development for the last year and a half The first mobile phone version of the popular web browser Firefox is "days away" from launch, the head of the project has told the BBC. The browser, codenamed Fennec, will initially be available for Nokia's N900 phone, followed by other handsets.
It is currently going through final testing and could be released before the end of the year, said Jay Sullivan at Mozilla, the group behind Firefox. The open-source browser will be able to synchronise with the desktop version. Software will mean that any web pages open in a user's desktop browser will automatically open in the mobile version. "At the end of the working day you can walk away from your computer and keep on going on your phone," Mr Sullivan told the BBC. "It encrypts all of the information and sends it back through the cloud between your desktop and mobile.
" Desktop success "Apple is very restrictive. " he said. App craze "They will co-exist," he said.
Tools. Piracy. Cb links: File-sharing student fight... File-sharing student fights fine. A US student who was fined $675,000 (£421,000) for illegally downloading music has asked a judge to reduce the damages or offer him a retrial. Joel Tenenbaum said that the fine was "grossly excessive". The court case focused on 30 tracks that Mr Tenenbaum admitted downloading. He was fined $22,500 per song. The court admitted that initially the market for online music was "unfair" because there were not many legal alternatives to illegal downloads. The case, between Sony BMG and Mr Tenenbaum, was one of the first to acknowledge that consumers did not have much choice in the early days of digital music. But Mr Tenenbaum was fined more heavily because some of his illegal file-sharing activities were detected after Apple established its iTunes store, the court said. Mr Tenenbaum is being represented by internet lawyer Charles Nesson. "The court ignored the impact encryption had on the fairness of music consumers' choice.
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GoogleWave. Google Wave Presents the Year 2009 - Google wave 2009 - Gizmodo. Teens Banding Together to Cut Down on Facebook. There's no doubt that for many of us, Facebook consumes a goodly proportion of our time; on average, we spend 5 percent of our time online. For some teenagers, time spent on the 350 million-strong social network has gone beyond time spent and into time sunk. It's prompted a spate of young users to devise ways of cutting down, taking breaks or simply deactivating their accounts altogether, according to The New York Times.
Some are even banding together to provide social support for curtailing the Facebook obsession. Two teens at San Francisco University High School, Hally Lamberson and Monica Reed, made a pact to only log in on the first Saturday of every month. Ann Arbor, Michigan, sophomore Neeka Salmasi enlisted her sister to change her Facebook password for her every Sunday evening and not give the new credentials back to her until the following Friday. Debunking The Silly Complaints From People Who Don't Like Social.
Wii Fit found to have 'little effect' on family fitness level, b. Gordon Brown to promise free laptops and broadband for poor fami. Gordon Brown today promised free laptops and broadband access for 270,000 low income families so that they could better follow their children's progress at school. In what aides described as a sign of his commitment to "aspiration", the prime minister said he wanted every household to have broadband access to the internet.
The aim is to get all families linked up to their children's schools via the internet and access progress reports on attainment, behaviour and other needs. To make that achievable, he will pledge £300m of investment to help poorer families who might not otherwise be able to afford it. Speaking to an international education forum in Westminster, Brown said: "We want every family to become a broadband family, and we want every home linked to a school.
For those finding it difficult to afford this, today I can announce the nationwide rollout of our home access programme to get laptops and broadband at home for 270,000 families. "Why do I say this?
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