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Why iTunes makes Bluray useless

Travis — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:33:47 +0000

Apple announced today that it has not only become the world’s most popular TV programming store, thanks to 200 million unit sales of TV shows, but that all four of the major networks — CBS, Fox, ABC, and NBC — are offering...

Ebay Australia Customers Now Forced to Use Paypal

Travis — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:34:49 +0000

EBAY Australia users will be forced to use the company’s online commerce website PayPal under new security measures prohibiting direct deposit and money orders as payment methods.

From June, all items on eBay Australia will have to be paid for online using a PayPal account or a Visa or Mastercard transaction through PayPal. Buyers will still be able to pay for an item with cash if they are picking it up in person.

Tibetans gathering in Delhi for torch protest

Travis — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:54:25 +0000

Emboldened by the demonstrations against the Olympic torch in London and Paris this week, scores of Tibetans have started arriving at the national capital to put up a strong protest when the flame is carried through the city April 17.

About 5,000 Tibetans are expected to reach Delhi from all over India over the next one week for the protest against the torch in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. About 2,000 of them have already arrived. Delhi itself is home to a few thousand Tibetans, including over 3,000 Tibetan students.

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Scores of Tibetans and Tibet sympathisers are expected to join the pro-Tibet and anti-China protest against the Olympic torch in New Delhi April 17.

A ‘march to Tibet’ that started from Dharamsala - the Himalayan abode for the Tibetan spiritual and temporal head Dalai Lama and his government-in-exile - which has now been truncated till Delhi has already entered the city’s outskirts.

The protest marchers, numbering over 200, will arrive at the Majnu ka Tila Tibetan settlement on Thursday in northeast Delhi.

Prominent among the protestors arriving in Delhi is Tenzin Tsundue, the one-man army who has embarrassed Indian and Chinese leadership in the past by waving Tibetan freedom flags and banners in front of visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao and prime minister Wen Jiabao in Mumbai and Bangalore.

Australia to build its own Stonehenge

Travis — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:06:20 +0000

A businessman is to construct a full-size replica of Stonehenge in the Margaret River region of Western Australia. Ross Smith says the £700,000 monument will be made from 2,500 tonnes of granite and will be in place in time for the summer...

National Australia Bank Lifts Mortgage Rate

Travis — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:27:04 +0000

National Australia Bank Ltd. (NAB) said Tuesday it has increased its standard variable home loan rate by 9 basis points to 9.36% per annum due to increased wholesale funding costs.
“Current wholesale funding costs are highly volatile and remain well above normal,” said Ahmed Fahour, the chief executive of NAB’s Australian operations.

“Bank wholesale funding costs have risen above Reserve Bank increases, and the spread between the Australian 90-day bank bill rate and the cash rate has been substantially higher than the usual spread,” he said in a statement.

“Furthermore, we have continued to issue in offshore markets for term funding at these substantially higher spreads, which leads to higher borrowing costs for businesses and mortgage loan customers.”