Published on August 2, 2010 by Technology Slice
Saturday Cheapest To Buy Petrol – The cheapest day of the week to fill up has changed seven times over the past 10 months. “We all got used to cheap Tuesday a couple of years ago,” said NRMA Motoring and Services president Wendy Machin. “But over the last 10 months it’s really bounced around.
Tags: 10 Months, Act, Australia, Cheap Tuesday, Federal Government, Investigations, Machin, Major Oil Companies, Motorists, Nrma, petrol prices, Prosecutions, Rational Reason, Sensible Answer, Seven Times, Watchdog, Wendy
Posted in Money
Published on July 13, 2010 by Technology Slice
Watchdog Warns Consumers Not To Buy iPhone 4 – After the iPhone 4 went on sale in June, buyers started complaining that holding the gadget a certain way could cause reception to fade and calls to drop. Apple has said that any phone will lose signal strength when gripped in certain ways. It said the [...]
Tags: 4s, apple, Appliances, Australia, Blog, Choice Magazine, Consumer Reports, Consumers, Faulty Software, Gadget, Gikas, iphone, Iphone 4, Optical Illusion, Product Launch, Sharp Display, Signal Strength, Smart Phones, Video Camera, Watchdog
Posted in Mobile Phones
Published on June 22, 2010 by Technology Slice
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rejected Iran’s reasons for the ban and said it fully supported the inspectors, which Tehran has accused of reporting wrongly that some nuclear equipment was missing. “The IAEA has full confidence in the professionalism and impartiality of the inspectors concerned,” spokesman Greg Webb said in an unusually blunt statement [...]
Tags: Ali Asghar, Amano, Atomic Energy Agency, Draft Law, Foreign Banks, Greg Webb, Impartiality, International Atomic Energy, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Atomic Energy Agency Iaea, Interruption, Lawmakers, Leaks, Nuclear Equipment, Nuclear Facilities, Professionalism, Sanctions, Tehran, Vigilance, Watchdog
Posted in World
Published on March 30, 2010 by Technology Slice
Banned Website Blacklist Will Not Be Made Public – Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has agreed that greater oversight of which websites will be banned under the Government’s mandatory internet filter is needed but has ruled out making the list public. The Federal Government plans to introduce a filter aimed at blocking access to illegal material [...]
Tags: Abc Radio, Australian Communications, Banned Movies, Censorship, Child Pornography, Discussion Paper, Federal Government, Governments, Illegal Material, Internet Filter, Mandatory Internet, Proper Oversight, Public Communications, Stephen Conroy, Transparency Measures, Url Address, Watchdog
Posted in Technology
Published on March 18, 2010 by Technology Slice
CT Scans Dangerous For Children – A radiology expert is urging doctors to obtain formal written consent from parents before ordering CT scans on children, warning that the risk of a single scan triggering a fatal cancer is 70 times greater than the chance of dying from a general anaesthetic. Soaring rates of CT scan [...]
Tags: 12 Months, Back Pain, Body Scans, Bomb Blasts, Bond University, Cancer Deaths, Cancer Risks, Computed Tomography, Effects Of Radiation, Expert John, Faculty Of Medicine, Fatal Cancer, General Anaesthetic, Medicare, Nuclear Bomb, Radiation Doses, Radiology, Statistical Analysis, Watchdog, X Ray
Posted in Health
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