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Immigration text, email reminders a winner
NZPA
Visa overstayers who might once have been targeted in dawn raids by immigration officials may in future receive kinder, gentler, texts and email reminders.
Hundreds have say online about law on policing
By CLAIRE McENTEE - The Dominion Post
Raising the minimum age of police officers to 25 is just one of the "hundreds if not thousands" of public comments posted on the Internet about the new Police Act.
Hackers go one-up on Apple, again
By ASHER MOSES - SMH | 09:40am
Chalk another one up for the hackers - the iPhoneSimFree team has come out with a way to breathe new life into iPhones that were "bricked" by Apple's latest software update.
YouTube lets users map videos onto Google Earth
Reuters | 09:40am
Google is bringing the world of online video and map-making closer together by allowing users of its Google Earth software to watch and hear YouTube videos mapped to specific locations.
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For millions of smokers itching to quit, new Web-based technologies are promising to stand by you like a close friend through those dark days of stress and withdrawal.
Sony releases slimmed down PlayStation 3
Sony will this week release a slimmed-down version of its PlayStation 3 video game console.
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