The Lunch Box 10/09

What’s for lunch today?

Snack down on some juicy news bits over lunch, and keep up to date with the goings-on in the world with the ARN lunch box!

Channel latest

• Apple has revoked the reseller license of Victoria-based Cheap Macs, which has been the vendor's partner for 10 years, allegedly without notice.
• More woes for resellers with WA-based Avaya partner, Total Connect, being placed into administration.
• Multimedia Technology has been appointed the sole IT channel distributor for Mimio’s interactive whiteboard range in Australia.

State of the market

• At 12.55pm, the ASX was up 20.4 points to 4542.6, having trimmed a higher opening. Another good first half of the day
• Gold has suffered a slight drop, down $US2.70 to $997.1, but oil had the slighted of gains, up $0.21 to $71.3

General news

• Unemployment: Jobless rate beats forecasts at 5.8 per cent
• PM hacked: 'Strike one to anonymous'
• G20: Rudd looks for wider role
• Politics: Hockey vows to slash $14bn of government spending
• McGurk murder: Kings Cross confidential - his desperate last hours
• Sydney stash: Weapons found at Rosebery industrial site
• Social networking Challenge to idea of Facebook stalking
• Scooby in a scrape: Rescue op to save him from cave (video)
• Key to happiness: The experts' plan of action

Sport

• Cricket: White ton leads Australia to victory
• NRL: Now for the Dally Mum award
• NRL (2): D-day for Taylor
• NRL (3): League 'cougar' to sue for libel
• US Open tennis: Serena sets up Clijsters clash at US Open
• US Open tennis (2): Tomic into third round of junior championship
• US Open tennis (3): Belgian teen Wickemayer into semis
• Football: Five-star England head for South Africa in style
• Swimming: Trickett contemplates retirement

Entertainment

• Beatles remasters: Rolling Stone gives them five stars
• Them Crooked Vultures: Australian tour announced
• Hey Hey It's Saturday: Backflip - Molly to appear in specials
• Jean_Paul Belmondo: When life mirrors art
• The Sandilands file: On-air gaffes may have blown US job chances
• Hefner divorce: 11 years later, split finalised
• Gossip:Sparrow James Midnight is born
• TV: Naomi and Gretel to return
• Them Crooked Vultures: Australian tour announced

For the evening:

• A Streetcar Named Desire is proving to be one of the most touted and talked-about theatre experiences of the year.

Tomorrow's weather:

• Sydney: Fine. Sunny. Min: 10, Max: 23
• Melbourne: Windy. Min: 8, MaX: 23
• Brisbane: Fine. Min: 10, Max: 25
• Perth: Showers, windy. Min: 13, Max: 18
• Adelaide: Windy. Sunny. Min: 13, Max: 27
• Hobart: Fine. Min: 5, Max: 19
• Canberra: Fine, sunny. Early frost. Min: 0, Max: 18
• Darwin: Fine, mostly sunny. Min: 23, Max: 34

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