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Palo Alto-based GenieTown launches this morning. They’re trying to crack the local services nut - a huge market, but one that a lot of the big guys are eyeing, too. The company says they are addressing the long tail of local services. The GenieTown site allows local service providers (plumbers, dentists, whatever) to put up a [...]

The m15x notebook from Alienware which we wrote about back in November has seen the light of day, just as hardened gamers were about to give up hopes on ever owning the high-powered machine. The so called m15x has, as you'd expect, a 15" display, and the Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000 processor as promised to us late last year, alongside the 'world's fastest' NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX graphics...

Kevin Rudd says binge drinking has reached "epidemic" proportions and will take action against alcohol abuse.

Coalition's second about-face facilitates the scrapping of AWAs.

State Government says its architects might have played a role in botched $100m Bathurst Base Hospital.

Joe Scimone steps down pending outcome of ICAC inquiry.

Allrounder, Andrew Symonds, is Australia's highest-paid Twenty20 player.

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Barack Obama and John McCain continue their winning streaks in the presidential primaries

Filed under: Desktops We're not going to set this one up with some creepy bedtime story like Vigor does on its own website, but seriously, this beast is kind of scary. The aptly-dubbed Colossus houses Intel's Skulltrail platform along with two Core 2 Extreme QX9775 quad-core processors, and that's just the beginning. You'll also find a menacing (albeit somewhat unsightly) chassis, a 1,000-watt PSU, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, twin 74GB Raptor hard drives, 2
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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/space/US_shooting_down_failed_satellite_at_10_30pm_ET_tonight'; Oh boy, tonight's the night. According to CNN sources, the US Navy plans to shoot down that failed satellite at 2230 ET from a ship west of Hawaii. The idea is to get a shot off as early as possible in case a second or third attempt is required. The $10 million missile fired from the USS Lake Erie will not carry a warhead
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Filed under: Desktops We love us a tiny computer, and the Nova P22 from Asus certainly delivers the goods. The first time we spotted this computer it was a playful Japan-bound orange and white box, but it looks all growed up in this black version for the States. Unfortunately, the price is pretty well growed up as well, at $899. That money buys you a machine with a mere 1GB of RAM, 1.86GHz Core 2 Duo processor, and 256MB (shared) Intel GMA 3000 i
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The U.S. Navy plans to take a shot Wednesday at destroying a faltering spy satellite before it can tumble to earth and -- possibly -- release a cloud of toxic gas.

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If Ohio and Texas weren't already must-win states for Sen. Hillary Clinton, they certainly are now. Sen. Barack Obama continued his winning streak since Super Tuesday two weeks ago. Sen. John McCain widened his lead in the GOP contest.

Britain's former domestic spy chief has denied allegations that his agency played a role in Princess Diana's death in a Paris car crash in 1997. He also said the suggestion that rogue elements of the agency could have done it were an "impossibility".