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Article | 4/07/2008 Weekly Tech News update - July 4th, 2008
YouTube stars gather in Boston, a laptop is gone in 90 seconds, a look at new robots, a tearful farewell to Bill Gates and a look inside a cable layin...
Article | 3/07/2008 Virgin Media file sharers sent legal threat letters
Virgin Media sent 800 UK customers letters warning them about participating in illegal file sharing.
Article | 4/07/2008 Sweatshirt helps nail Citibank card scammer
A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he didn't spend eno...
Article | 3/07/2008 Energy Star for servers may be ready by year-end, EPA says
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency expects to introduce its first Energy Star rating for servers by the end of the year, although a more compreh...
Article | 3/07/2008 Intel, AMD gather steam as chip price war cools
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices both gained momentum in the first quarter of this year as the longtime price war between rival chipmakers slowed.
Article | 4/07/2008 The low-down on the iPhone 3G down-under
Australia will be among the first 22 countries alongside the US, UK, Germany and Japan, to receive the new iPhone from Friday, July 11.
Article | 4/07/2008 Nvidia reports problem with laptop chips
Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in "significant quantities" of laptop PCs, the company said Wednesday.
Article | 4/07/2008 Expect iPhone scams, security firm says
Apple's launch of its new iPhone 3G will produce a flurry of spam and scams, a security company warned Thursday.
Article | 4/07/2008 Opera patches multiple bugs in flagship browser
Opera Software patched the newest version of its flagship browser for the first time Wednesday when it released Opera 9.5.1 to fix several flaws.
Article | 4/07/2008 Google holds contest for developers
If calculating the maximum height at which an egg won't break when dropped while sacrificing the least number of eggs sounds like a worthy challenge t...
Article | 4/07/2008 Instant messaging to overtake business e-mail
Instant messaging (IM) is set to overtake e-mail as the preferred form of business communication by the second half of 2010, according to research by ...
Article | 4/07/2008 Microsoft to patch Windows 2000, XP, SQL and Exchange servers
Microsoft on Thursday chalked in four security updates for next week that would fix vulnerabilities in Windows, SQL Server and Exchange Server.
Article | 3/07/2008 Federal Government extends regional mobile phone coverage
The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, today announced $8 million worth of funding to enhance mob...
Article | 3/07/2008 The TiVo HD: interface and features
The most important thing about a personal video recorder, apart from its technical features, is its interface. As well as talking about what the TiVO ...
Article | 3/07/2008 Linux phone to (finally) call down under
Linux nuts longing for a mobile phone that runs their favourite open source operating system needn't wait much longer with the much-delayed OpenMoko N...
Article | 3/07/2008 Telstra releases tool to track mobile phone users
Telstra (ASX:TLS) today unveiled a new service that will allow its customers to find the location of mobile phone users in near-real time.
Article | 3/07/2008 Optus announces iPhone 3G pricing
Optus today announced its pricing plans for the highly anticipated iPhone 3G.
Article | 3/07/2008 NSW Govt revives Tcard project
NSW's failed Tcard smart card ticketing system has been resuscitated only six months after the project was scrapped in a $90 million fall out.
Article | 2/07/2008 Regulators halt BBC's Kangaroo video service
Internet TV service Project Kangaroo has been referred to the Competition Commission by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).
Article | 3/07/2008 Report: Yahoo-Google partnership under DOJ scrutiny
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the advertising partnership between Yahoo and Google, the Washingt...

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