 | | |  | Australian start-up lets you try apps before you buy them and catches the eye of US investors, writes Ben Grubb. | | Top stories BEN GRUBB 11:30am | The company behind the GraysOnline shopping websites has been slapped with a $165,000 fine by Australia's communications regulator after sending emails that breached the Spam Act. | LUCY BATTERSBY 6:33pm | The volume of data downloaded over mobile broadband networks has nearly doubled in the past year as the number of mobile handset subscribers in Australia increased to nearly 20 million. | 11:43am | Optus and Virgin Mobile 2G and 3G customers were impacted by an outage in Sydney's CBD on Wednesday morning that lasted approximately 10 hours and affected voice and data. | 9:11am | Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium have won the Nobel prize in physics for the discovery of the "God particle", or Higgs boson, that explains why mass exists. | 11:01am | Grand Theft Auto V has broken seven world records, including fastest-selling video game franchise and fastest-selling entertainment franchise. | BRIDIE SMITH | Every person infected with malaria carries about 12 billion malaria parasites. The parasites evolve constantly, staying one step ahead of the body's immune system and rendering malaria a life-threatening disease. | 11:33am | A comet exploded over Egypt 28 million years ago, raining down fire and leaving behind a "mysterious" black pebble - the first-ever comet material found on Earth. | 9:21am | Google's new plastic Chromebook is a cheap gateway into its cloud services that borrows features from higher-end models. | 10:56am | Apple will reveal its latest line-up of iPads on October 22, according to a report citing sources familiar with the plans. | 11:51am | ACCC hopes for consistency in price and fairness in access to broadband services until 2040. | LUCY BATTERSBY 9:32am | The telecommunications industry has called on new Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull to be quick and decisive as he decides what to do with the national broadband network. | 12:28pm | Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman is encouraging employees to work at the office as much as possible, according to a report. | 7:38am | Cases are rarely publicised, but online crime is one of the financial system's biggest threats. | | | Advertisement  Advertisement  Compare & Save | Find the best mobile phone plan | | |  | | | | | Security Reminder: Fairfax Media digital never requests personal or credit card information via email. Be wary of suspicious emails claiming to offer Fairfax Media digital services. You are receiving this email as a registered Fairfax Media digital member. Your username is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. Your email address is: garn14.tech@blogger.com. If you do not want to receive further announcements from Fairfax Media digital, please unsubscribe here. Fairfax Media Limited. ABN 15 008 663 161.
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