Komodo Dragon most likely evolved in Australia 3-4 mln yrs ago

November 8th, 2006 Internet search engine leader, Google has warned Australia (why does Google start sounding like Microsoft with each passing day?) of going back to "pre-internet era" if the proposed changes to Australia's copyright laws are legislated. "Given the vast size of the Internet, it is impossible for a search engine to contact personally each owner of a web page to determine whether the owner desires its web page to be searched, indexed or cached," Google said Tuesday.

October 9th, 2009 MELBOURNE - eBay Australia has revealed that a cereal that looked like ET is the weirdest item ever sold on its website - fetching more than a thousand dollars. The online auction website has hosted strange auctions, but a thousand-dollar piece of Nutri-Grain resembling ET was dubbed as a favourite after it sold for a whopping 1035 dollars in December 2004.

September 30th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Ltd will boost its presence in Australia by opening a 150-seat software development centre at Melbourne this December, the IT bellwether said Wednesday. Announcing the decision on the occasion of Victoria premier John Brumbys visit to the companys corporate headquarters in this tech hub, Wipro chairman Azim Premji said the Victorian operations would strengthen the companys Australia delivery capabilities and boost its presence in the country.

June 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A rapidly expanding social networking site has been slammed for its racist taunts against immigrants to Australia. The Facebook Group, , has nearly 65,000 members and believes any immigrants coming to Australia must adapt to what it calls the 'Aussie lifestyle.' "This idea of Australia being a multicultural community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity," the site states.

June 25th, 2009 NOIDA - Birlasoft has been named among the top 10 best outsourcing service providers in Australia and New Zealand region, by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), in their list 2009 Global Outsourcing 100. Birlasoft has been chosen by an independent panel of industry-recognized experts from business and academic institutions.

July 1st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Tech Mahindra, the new owner of troubled Indian IT services firm Satyam, has for the first time confirmed its continued commitment to a 75 million dollars software development project in Geelong, Australia. There were grave concerns that the project would be axed after Satyam Computer Services founder and chairman, B.

March 17th, 2009 Telstra cancels 32 m dollar deal with Satyam MELBOURNE - Australian software major Telstra has dumped scandal-ridden outsourcing partner Satyam from an applications support contract believed to be worth 32 million dollars a year. EDS will pick up the embattled Indian outsourcing firm's IT contracts with Telstra, sources told The Australian.

April 7th, 2009 On what is to be called an aggressive technical decision, The Australian Govt. has announced that they don't want to completely redesign the internet service of the whole country.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In order to make the internet more accessible to all, including the disabled, a rights group has asked for adoption of web accessibility standard which has already been adopted in a number of other countries. 'India had ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Oct 2007.

April 11th, 2009 Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who sold Skype to eBay four years ago for $2.6 billion, wants to buy them back. Yeah, weird may it sound but that is what is buzzing around in the technology world right now.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - Popular microblogging website Twitter has launched a new home page. The Internet phenomenon, which boasts of an estimated 55 million visitors each month, made changes to the page, that now includes a search facility and lists the 23 most popular "trending topics" "by the minute, day, and week".

February 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Every second, millions of phone calls and cable TV shows are dispatched through fibres as digital zeros and ones formed by chopping laser pulses into bits. This slicing and dicing is generally done with an electro-optic modulator, a device for allowing an electric signal to switch a laser beam on and off at high speeds.

August 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - Outsourcing major Wipro is actively looking at overseas acquisitions, a top company official said here Wednesday. "As far as acquisition is concerned, we are already active in that area and we will continue to remain active.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter will soon be used in Australia to give people early warning of bushfires, which killed 173 people in February. Residents of towns in Victoria state have said that they had little or no warning of the ferocious blazes that claimed so many lives earlier this year.

September 11th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Mahindra Satyam has pulled out of a 75 million dollars software development project at Deakin University that was set to create 2000 jobs in Geelong, Victoria. The company's president of corporate affairs, Sujit Baksi, informed the state government of its intention in a letter to IT minister John Lenders.