Published on January 27, 2012 by Technology Slice
ACMA to Investigate Kyle Sandilands – “The ACMA is investigating a complaint about Kyle Sandilands’ remarks on radio on November 22,” said spokesman Blake Murdoch.
“The results of that investigation will be made available in due course.”
Sandilands caused outrage last year when he used his top-rating breakfast show on Sydney’s 2DAY FM to abuse a News Limited journalist who wrote a story about him that he didn’t like, calling her a “fat slag” with “little titties” who needed to “shut her mouth”.
An ACMA spokesman said the authority was looking at whether the comments had breached the Commercial Radio Standards.
The listener backlash against Sandilands caused a mass exodus of advertisers and sponsors from the show, costing station owner Southern Cross Austereo an estimated $10 million at least and leading to speculation he would be fired.
But in an interview to be published tomorrow in The Weekend Australian Sandilands laughs off the rumours.
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Published on January 27, 2012 by Technology Slice
Bernard Tomic Police Troubles – The 19-year-old P-plater had allegedly been revving the engine of his high-performance BMW at pedestrians in Broadbeach. Tomic has an exemption to his licence allowing him to use the car to drive to training and other tennis-related activities.
After being given one ticket Tomic was ordered to drive straight home but was stopped and given a second ticket when he allegedly disobeyed the directive. He was followed home by a police vehicle with lights flashing and parked his car in the driveway behind locked security gates.
Tomic, who spoke briefly to reporters, said he had done nothing wrong and was being persecuted by the police.
”They’ve given me three tickets and one officer feels like he wants to get me and it’s not a good feeling,” he said. ”It’s all happened on Australia Day when I am trying to have fun with my mates.”
Tomic told Channel Seven: ”I don’t know what is happening – something is really wrong. I don’t know what I’m doing, it’s like I’ve killed somebody.
Inspector Glenn Allan said the tickets related to the conditions of Tomic’s licence but it was too early to say whether police had made a mistake in issuing the infringement notices.
The incident unfolded as Rafter was speaking favourably about the teenager at the announcement of the Davis Cup team in Melbourne. ”We had a little issue over there in Sydney [during a Davis Cup tie],” the Davis Cup captain said. ”He probably wasn’t at that maturity level back then with what I had to tell him. But he’s certainly done something [to improve that].”
Tomic was knocked out of the Australian Open this week in the fourth round by Roger Federer.
Inspector Allan said the Tomic family was considering whether to lay a complaint against police.
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Published on January 19, 2012 by Technology Slice
Mark Wahlberg Apologizes for Comments – Mark Wahlberg has apologised after saying things may have turned out differently if he had been on one of the planes that crashed on 9/11.
In a magazine interview, he said: “If I was on that plane with my kids, it wouldn’t have went down like it did.
“There would have been a lot of blood in that first-class cabin and then me saying, ‘OK, we’re going to land somewhere safely, don’t worry.’”
One widow of a 9/11 victim had called the comments “disrespectful”.
Mark Wahlberg, who has appeared in films like The Fighter and The Departed, was meant to be on one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York on 11 September 2001.
After making the comments in Men’s Journal magazine, the 40-year-old issued a formal apology.
“To speculate about such a situation is ridiculous to begin with, and to suggest I would have done anything differently than the passengers on that plane was irresponsible,” he said.
“I deeply apologise to the families of the victims that my answer came off as insensitive. It was certainly not my intention.”
The Oscar-nominated actor, who made his name in the music business as rapper Marky Mark, started acting in 1993.
He is now promoting his latest movie project Contraband, a thriller in which he plays a former smuggler forced to protect his brother-in-law.
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Published on January 19, 2012 by Technology Slice
Marg Helgenberger Will Leave CSI – CSI star Marg Helgenberger is leaving the TV series after 12 seasons.
The 53-year-old actress, who plays Catherine Willows, will bid farewell in a two-part episode, one of which was shown in the US on Wednesday night, and the other to be broadcast on January 25.
Marg said she was looking forward to time off, hiking with her dog and even looking for work – and would also love to do Broadway.
Despite her departure, the actress said she would be willing to return for a special episode or two in the future.
“Oh, absolutely, in fact that was one of the reasons why it was a little easier for me to leave the show because the producers said to me practically every day the door is wide open. If I’m available and I’m up for it you betcha,” she said.
She says she is proud the show has inspired some people to become criminologists and said to fans: “You haven’t seen the last of me.”
She called the part “one of the best roles” she ever had and “quite a journey”. Looking back at older episodes she likes to remember the crime that was solved, see who the guest stars are and marvel at some of her clothes and hairstyles. “Sometimes I go, ‘What was I thinking?’,” she said.
Marg has received both Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations for her work on CSI and will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 23.
Her son Hugh is now a production assistant on the show.
CSI is known as the most watched show in the world and has received the International Television Audience Award at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.
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Published on January 19, 2012 by Technology Slice
Marco Rubio Joins Protests – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida joined the thousands of websites Wednesday protesting the government’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA), a bill that legislators claim would help stop Internet copyright infringement but that some online experts warn could restrict the freedom of the Internet.
“I have decided to withdraw my support for the Protect IP Act. Furthermore, I encourage Senator Reid to abandon his plan to rush the bill to the floor,” Rubio posted on his Facebook page. “Instead, we should take more time to address the concerns raised by all sides, and come up with new legislation that addresses Internet piracy while protecting free and open access to the Internet.”
Rubio’s change of heart comes as a bit of surprise as he was co-sponsor of the bill.
The biggest business names participating in the blackout against PIPA and the similar legislation entitled the Stop Online Piracy Act include user-based encyclopedia Wikipedia, web browser Mozilla and photo-sharing site Twitpic.
“For over a decade, we have spent millions of hours building the largest encyclopedia in human history,” Wikipedia stated on its website. “Right now, the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet. For 24 hours, to raise awareness, we are blacking out Wikipedia.”
Besides those sites going totally dark, search engine giant Google and other sites have put up anti-SOPA content on their website in solidarity with the blackout.
In New York, members of the technology community planned a protest outside the offices of New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand who support the legislation.
“This legislation would give the government and corporations the ability to censor the net in the name of protecting creativity simply by convincing a judge that a site is ‘dedicated’ to copyright infringement,” The New York Tech Meetup’s website stated. “More importantly, the legislation amounts to a wholesale re-engineering of the open web in a way that would allow the US government to prosecute Internet users without due process, which in turn would discourage innovation, limit investment, and hurt our economic future.”
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