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Article | 20/06/2008 Budget 802.11n wireless networking

Faster and farther-reaching networking are just a couple of the advantages of an 802.11 draft-n based wireless network, so if you're in the market for...

Article | 18/06/2008 Will Ozzie era at Microsoft signal a revolution?

If Bill Gates leaving Microsoft is the end of an era, then Ray Ozzie's ascension is the beginning of a revolution designed to transform the company's ...

Article | 18/06/2008 Apple opens its doors to Sydney

Amid the hype of Apple's first retail store opening in Australia this week, it's easy to be intrigued by the 750 square metres of glass used in its co...

Article | 18/06/2008 FAQ: Installing Firefox 3

What will happen to my earlier version of Firefox?

Article | 18/06/2008 In pictures: Apple Store Sydney

Apple's first retail store in Australia will open in Sydney's George Street on Thursday, 19 June at 5:00p.m. Check out our sneak preview!

Article | 18/06/2008 10 "Get Smart" phones you can actually get

Once a joke, belt phones, pen phones and wristwatch phones are now a reality.

Article | 17/06/2008 Bill Gates: 10 memorable moments

For more than 30 years he has roamed among us, a strange hybrid of Napoleon Dynamite and Vlad the Impaler. Nerdy yet ruthless, brilliant yet hobbled b...

Article | 17/06/2008 Smartphone showdown: Are these the iPhone 3G killers?

The announcement of the iPhone in January 2007 caused excitement throughout the smartphone market, although the phone had some notable omissions in te...

Article | 17/06/2008 Stupid user tricks: IT admin follies

For those of us who make our living behind a keyboard in IT, it's hard to imagine a more time-tested vulnerability than the end-user. Armed with netwo...

Article | 16/06/2008 The world’s fastest supercomputer

IBM, Los Alamos smash petaflop barrier.

Article | 16/06/2008 Five hot -- and cool -- storage technologies

Down economy or not, the growing appetite for enterprise data storage won't be sated anytime soon, if ever. The rise of data-heavy multimedia files, n...

Article | 16/06/2008 This season's mini-laptops

A new breed of extremely small and light (2 pounds or so) laptop has emerged just in time for summer travel. Called mobile Internet devices (MIDs), an...

Article | 14/06/2008 End of FY bargains: Save hundreds of dollars on our notebook 'best buys'

Although the end of the financial year means tedious labour as the tax man cometh, it also represents a great opportunity for small businesses, studen...

Article | 13/06/2008 IT pro's vacation planner: Must you unplug to unwind?

Rod Masney believes it's a key part of his management role to encourage his employees to really disengage from their in high-pressure IT jobs -- to ta...

Article | 13/06/2008 Slideshow: Seven iPhone contenders

The announcement of the 3G iPhone by Apple head honcho Steve Jobs this week was pasted across pretty much every news outlet in town. From TV to online...

Article | 12/06/2008 Microsoft Surface surfaces in Las Vegas

For those who were wondering whether Microsoft's Surface tabletop touch-sensitive computers were going to be anything more than retail sales tools, he...

Article | 12/06/2008 Five reasons to buy the Apple iPhone 3G

Finally, the wait is over. Australians can get their hands on Apple's newest iPhone when it launches on 11 July. The good news is, the iPhone 3G has m...

Article | 11/06/2008 How important is the 3GPP femto standard?

Last week's announcement of a standard for femto cells took a lot of people by surprise. How did it happen so fast, and how important will it be? And ...

Article | 11/06/2008 Bill Gates in pictures: A retrospective

From kid geek to the world's next great philanthropist?

Article | 11/06/2008 20 great Windows open source projects you should get to know

No one loves to pay crazy per-user licensing fees, not to mention 15- 22 per cent annual support residuals. (And no one loves the endless, mind-numbin...