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AUSTRALIA'S largest privately owned broadband services provider, Internode, has been snapped up by ISP iiNet for $105 million.

The acquisition of South Australia-based Internode will add approximately 190,000 broadband subscribers to iiNet's customer base to cement the Perth-based provider as the nation's second largest DSL provider and the third-largest supplier of fixed-line broadband services in Australia.
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The pending Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) continues to inspire opponents to come up with creative solutions to circumvent it.

A new anti-SOPA add-on for Firefox, titled “DeSopa,” is such a counter measure.
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A few days ago we reported that no less than 6 IP-addresses registered to the RIAA had been busted for downloading copyrighted material. Quite a shocker to everyone – including the music industry group apparently – as they are now using a defense previously attempted by many alleged file-sharers. ...

Not long ago, the infamous hacktivist collective came forward revealing their plans to go after members of the secret society called Illuminati, calling George Bush, Barack Obama, Charles Schumer, Curtis James Jackson III and others as being their puppets.
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It’s a hot week at Microsoft,

Labs working on the final build of Windows 8 Beta,
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Compromising Facebook photos have led to people getting fired, divorced and shunned by friends, but that has not had a dampening effect on users. According to a U.K. poll of 1,781 adult Facebook users by MyMemory.com, respondents said they were under the influence of alcohol in 76 percent of the pictures they were tagged in.
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