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Article | 12/06/2008 Toshiba unveils 160GB 1.8-in. hard drive
Toshiba plans to introduce two new 1.8-in. hard drives, which the company claims can reduce the storage footprint in ultra-portable and sub-notebook P...
Article | 12/06/2008 ACCC admits to failure of anti competitive Telstra measures
The ACCC admitted last week to a Senate standing committee that the operational separation legislation introduced in 2005 to control anti-competitive ...
Article | 10/06/2008 Strong demand for drives propels storage revenue
Despite a slowdown in server shipments, disk-based storage revenue grew during the first quarter of 2008, with companies like Dell cashing in on the i...
Article | 12/06/2008 Telstra does a backflip on ADSL2+ wholesale access
Telstra has done a back flip on its ADSL2+ broadband wholesale strategy and announced it will allow ISPs access to the network.
Article | 12/06/2008 Beijing prepares for 'High-tech Olympics'
All over Beijing, Olympic countdown clocks tick off the seconds that China has awaited for seven years: the moments until Aug. 8, 2008, at 8:00 pm, wh...
Article | 12/06/2008 Intel was slow to embrace low-power chips, exec says
Intel engineers first began toying with a low-power microprocessor almost a decade ago, but their initial design was rejected by the company's top exe...
Article | 12/06/2008 New features for IT pros coming in next IE8 beta
Microsoft is making some improvements to Internet Explorer that it hopes will make deploying and managing the browser easier for IT professionals.
Article | 12/06/2008 Double-Take adds Hyper-V support to replication/failover apps
Data replication and failover vendor Double-Take Software Tuesday unveiled a lineup of products to support the forthcoming Microsoft Hyper-V virtualiz...
Article | 12/06/2008 Major security sites hit by XSS bugs
The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, ac...
Article | 11/06/2008 Avaya CEO D'Ambrosio to step down for medical reasons
Avaya president and CEO Lou D'Ambrosio will step down after six years in the post for medical reasons and will be replaced on an interim basis by Char...
Article | 12/06/2008 Berners-Lee: Challenge of the Web is 'creative connectivity'
The challenge of the Web is to build a system that enables people to creatively solve problems that they couldn't solve on their own, said Tim Berners...
Article | 12/06/2008 Intel waiting for a hit product to get MID market rolling
Intel is counting on the emergence of a hit product to kick-start demand for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and spur sales of its Centrino Atom chip p...
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.

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