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Iran dissident's prison-cell conversion over election

THE headline on the last blog item the former Iranian vice-president, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, published before his June 15 arrest €“ "It was a huge swindling" €“ left no doubt he believed that his country's presidential election had been stolen.

Tech Tip

YOU don't have to stay online to work on a Google Docs file. Google is introducing Google Docs Offline, a feature that lets you revise your documents without a web connection. It syncs your offline changes to the web version when you're back online. The company has a video demonstrating the feature at www.youtube.com/google and there are detailed written instructions for using Google Docs Offline at snipurl.com/2422x.

Mains Mainly Safe

Australian data centres insist they are capable of withstanding a large-scale power cut, despite the experience of a major San Francisco data centre whose backups failed last week, taking high-profile Web 2.0 sites offline.

Posting Of Top 10 Office Peeves Provokes Peevish Response

EVERY office is rife with them. The serial joke emailer. The backstabber. The jargon hack who uses all the buzzwords about shifting paradigms, thinking outside the box and taking things offline.

Yallourn Power Outage To Put State Below Safety Reserve

VICTORIA'S energy supplies will fall below safety reserve levels in late January when TruEnergy's Yallourn power station takes one of its 350-megawatt generating units offline for nine days for maintenance.

Dispute Cripples National's Atm Network

A THIRD of National Australia Bank's automated tellers around Melbourne could be offline for almost two months as an industrial dispute at armoured transport provider Brinks simmers in the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.

Search Engine For The Children

millenniumkids.com.au/index.2.htm/ Millennium Kids is a kind of colourful Greenpeace for kids; its brightly coloured, cartoon-like site covers both its online (teacher info packs, e-mail contacts) and offline activities (special projects, environmental conferences.) The group is Western Austra

Notes From The Underground

Online and offline, self-expression is a hit with young people. But it's hard to find a place for it in the modern curriculum. By Jenny Sinclair.

Investors In Funds Prefer To Stay Offline

Investing online offers few real benefits so far. Christine Long reports.

'ere We Go

Soccer, the world's most popular sport and akin to a religion in some parts, brings out the best and worst in fans on and offline. Keith Austin reports.

Gaming's Going To The Dogs

As Tabcorp faces pressure on and offline, TAB might prove the best defensive option.

Wine Planet To Seek Sales Boost In The Offline World

Online liquor retailer Wine Planet yesterday defended its decision to rein in cash burn by cutting staff and told shareholders that, having ``won" the online space, it would ramp up sales efforts in the offline world. With the e-tailer's shares languishing near their lows, Wine Planet manag

Offline Post The Hope Of Online Plan

Many a slip 'twixt letterbox and CD-ROM, writes Dorothy Kennedy. The history of direct marketing over the Internet has been fraught with consumer angst, merchant disappointment and more weirdness than Groucho Marx could have concocted in a month of Sundays. Market offline for online customers, m

Old Brands, New Futures

there needs to be a major offline experience in an online purchase," he says. ``And if I was David Jones I'd be focusing on the offline experience and the convenience of online. Because convenience and price are still the two killers." Another problem facing bricks and mortars is a less

Reality Bytes

Do you know what your friends look like? Online communities are starting to spill into offline contacts. Graham Hutton, an expat Kiwi living in Queensland, is a dyed-in-the-wool All Blacks supporter. He liked to keep an eye on rugbyheaven.com.au (a Fairfax site) just to keep up with news. He rea

Bp To Enter Collaboration With E-tailer

Petroleum and chemicals giant BP unveiled an alliance with wishlist.com.au yesterday, and was quick to declare that its $2.5 million investment in the e-tailer was not a rescue package for a "lame duck" Internet company. Tagged by BP as an online-meets-offline collaboration, BP will de

Travelshop Group Shopping Around

Perth-based on-line and retail travel group Travelshop Ltd is considering expansion through acquisitions. Director Rob Nichevich said yesterday it was considering offline businesses that could enhance Travelshop's retail and product offering. ``We're quite advanced. One has a retail presence

Old Media Takes Charge

``New media" is becoming ``mew media" in the US as old economy newspapers take charge of the online world while punching ahead with their traditional offline offerings. The latest figures show that not only are the media dot coms' once high-flying share prices shot to ribbons, people ar