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Article | 17/06/2008 AMD graphics card breaks teraflop barrier
Advanced Micro Devices Monday unveiled a new graphics chip designed to be less power hungry than its predecessors by allowing it to be doubled up on h...
Article | 17/06/2008 Blu-ray price-slash -- Sony announces significant price drops for desktop Blu-ray drives
Sony Australia has announced significant price drops for its two internal desktop Blu-ray drives; the BWU200S and BDUX10S. The new suggested retail pr...
Article | 17/06/2008 New Nokia phones targeted at enterprises
Nokia has expanded its family of enterprise phones with the introduction of the E71 and E66, which come at a time when Apple, Research in Motion and M...
Article | 17/06/2008 How to salvage data lost to Gpcode.ak encryptor virus
The Gpcode.ak virus, which encrypts files on the victim's desktop and demands a ransom to decrypt them, uses encryption that so far has proven too str...
Article | 17/06/2008 IPhone 2.0 gets open source email
Funambol has delivered an open source email client for the new iPhone, and has won new funding for its bid to offer a free alternative to the Blackber...
Article | 17/06/2008 FAQ: XP deathwatch, T minus 2 weeks
XP is beginning that last long walk toward retirement on June 30, with its end-of-life due date staring it -- and you -- in the face.
Article | 16/06/2008 Australia tops cyber crime list
Australia has the highest incidence of cyber crime in the world, according to a global survey of nine countries by software security vendor, AVG.
Article | 16/06/2008 Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census
Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source so...
Article | 16/06/2008 Hosted email cuts law firm's spam woes
South Australian-based law firm Piper Alderman has turned to a hosted email security service to cut out the 9000 spam emails it received each day.
Article | 16/06/2008 Paid maternity leave will combat skills crisis: APESMA
Six months paid maternity leave is one way to curb the high female churn rates in the engineering field, claims the Association of Professional Engine...
Article | 16/06/2008 WA travel smartcard to hide in gadgets
West Australians could pay for public transport travel using smartcard-like microchips embedded into personal devices like pendants and watches.
Article | 16/06/2008 Mozilla sets June 17 for Firefox 3 'Download Day'
Mozilla will release the next version of its Firefox browser on Tuesday and attempt to set a Guinness World Record for software downloads.
Article | 13/06/2008 USB 3.0 host controller spec will be free, Intel says
Intel plans to make the specification for a USB 3.0 host controller freely available during the second half of this year, hitting back at rumors the c...
Article | 12/06/2008 Intel developing video search technology
In a quest to make computing more interactive, Intel on Wednesday said it is working on video search technology that it hopes to bring to its future m...
Article | 16/06/2008 AMD seeks advantages as x86 processors morph
The chips that make up the inside of an x86-based computer are changing. The traditional roles of the processor, chipset and graphics chip are blurrin...
Article | 16/06/2008 Limited WiMax growth in Australia
The Asia/Pacific region can expect to be home to some 43 million WiMax subscribers by the end of 2013 and to generate estimated revenues of close to $...
Article | 16/06/2008 Man gets six months for posting terror threat online
A 22-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for repeatedly posting online threats that dirty bombs were going to be...
Article | 16/06/2008 British hacker faces extradition hearing next week
A British hacker fighting extradition to the US on computer hacking charges is preparing for his final UK appeal.
Article | 16/06/2008 MySpace to shake up its layout
MySpace will unveil this week a large-scale redesign that will alter major components of the social-networking site, like its home page, navigation sc...
Article | 16/06/2008 Ultrafast storage fuels movie's battle scenes
Hired by Marvel Entertainment to help bring a 9-foot-tall gamma-powered superhero to life on the big screen, officials at the Soho VFX special effects...

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