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Article | 12/06/2008 Top OEMs to sell XP PCs down to the wire
Three of the top four PC sellers worldwide plan to sell systems with Windows XP right up to the Microsoft-mandated deadline of June 30.
Article | 11/06/2008 Do-not-call register comes up short
With the Australian Government's Do Not Call Register celebrating its first full year of operation this month, findings from the Dimension Data Global...
Article | 11/06/2008 Tech problem stumps Yahoo, forces Mail features rollback
Yahoo is rolling back security and anti-spam enhancements to its Webmail service because they interfered with users' ability to retrieve POP e-mail fr...
Article | 12/06/2008 Mac bug forces Mozilla to Firefox 3.0 RC3
A change that Apple made in its latest update to Mac OS X forced Mozilla to issue a third release candidate for Firefox 3.0, according to notes from a...
Article | 12/06/2008 Symantec buys online backup vendor SwapDrive
Symantec this month acquired online file backup and recovery vendor SwapDrive, in a move similar to EMC's acquisition of online backup provider Mozy l...
Article | 11/06/2008 Analyst: WiMax opportunity stifled in Australia
A new Frost & Sullivan report is predicting WiMax will remain a limited and niche technology in Australia.
Article | 11/06/2008 Next G gets a speed boost
Telstra's 3G network will be faster, cheaper and have more capacity following a deal with Ericsson to install Direct Tunnel technology.
Article | 6/06/2008 Virgin Media to 'educate' illegal file sharers
Virgin Media and the BPI are working together on an 'education campaign' aimed at users believed to be illegally sharing copyrighted files.
Article | 11/06/2008 WWDC: iPhone 2.0 offers a number of new applications and features
The iPhone 3G dominated the first day of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, but attendees also got a glimpse of new software coming fo...
Article | 11/06/2008 Telectroscope connects New York and London
The fictional story behind the Telectroscope says there is an undersea tunnel that connects New York and London and allows viewers in the two cities t...
Article | 11/06/2008 Airline boarding passes on your phone
At a number of US airports Continental Airlines passengers can now carry their boarding passes with them on their smart phones.
Article | 11/06/2008 HP launches broad array of redesigned notebooks, displays
In one of its largest product releases, HP unveiled a bevy of PCs and displays, zeroing in on key trends such as touch-screen technology and compact l...
Article | 11/06/2008 New Mac OS X Server backs iPhone clients
Apple has revealed further details of the new Mac OS X Server software, adding support for a new file system and collaboration tools designed for busi...
Article | 11/06/2008 Western Digital unveils 1TB drive, repackages product lines
Western Digital Tuesday unveiled a new family of 3.5-in. hard drives offering capacities of 750GB and 1TB for desktop and multi-drive systems. Additio...
Article | 11/06/2008 IPhone 3G: It's not world peace, but it's close
If you've seen the bumper sticker, "Visualize Whirled Peas," as a play on "Visualize World Peace," it is a reminder of what is happening at Apple's Wo...
Article | 10/06/2008 HP shakes up research labs, places 'big bets'
Hewlett-Packard is forging ahead with a revamp of its research labs that it hopes will put cutting-edge developments into its products much faster.
Article | 10/06/2008 Federal police anti-porn operations cut by razor gang
The Rudd government's razor gang has cut funding from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) anti-child porn operations, including its online capability.
Article | 10/06/2008 Aussies top US, Europe in falling victim to cyber crime
Just days after the ederal government announced its StaySmartOnline initiative, a study by security software maker AVG has found that Australians fall...
Article | 7/03/2008 IT execs intrigued but skeptical of iPhone corporate support
Apple said it has enterprise business support for its iPhone 2.0 beta release, but several senior IT executives expressed skepticism and even ridicule...
Article | 10/06/2008 FAQ: Meet the new iPhone 3G
The days and weeks and months of speculation are over. Apple did, as expected at its Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, retire its orig...

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