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Follow Up To Last Week:
Webcamgate continues with a court order
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10459220-71.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
News:
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd Won’t Apologise for the Internet Censorship Filter.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Rudd-We-won-t-apologise-for-filter/0,130061791,339301378,00.htm?feed=rss and
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/net-filters-to-hit-social-networks-20100301-pbl6.html
Related to this is Senator Kate Lundy who is standing apart from the Labour party against the filter as planned.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/politics/labor-split-as-kate-lundy-proposes-opt-out-to-conroy-isp-filter/story-e6frgczf-1225833745627
When is a story about the Apple iPad not a story about the Apple iPad
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/apple-ipad-launch-may-be-delayed-analyst-20100302-pedh.html?autostart=1
Mix this with those life like Japanese robot girls and you get…creepy much!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10458796-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Google acquires Picnik photo service, who cares. But read the last paragraph, is Google planning to take over the world?
http://www.news.com.au/technology/google-purchases-photo-editing-site-picnik/story-e6frfro0-1225835977584
Interesting, after all the talk about OLED, it would seem that the iPhone’s backlit LED display is better than the Nexus 1’s OLED screen.
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39029453,49305141,00.htm?s_cid=33&tag=mncol;txt
Topic of the Week: The Tech of 3D Cinema
A brief history of 3D cinema, how it works (then and now), the different systems used today and the difference between shooting in 3D and 3D conversion.
Here are a collection of links that we used to research the story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_film
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/20/3d-film-history
http://www.televisions.com/tv-articles/TV-in-3D.php
http://www.slate.com/id/2243118/?from=rss
The Future: 3D Television?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_television
Is 3D TV bad for you?
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2813511.htm
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