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Article | 15/05/2008 Spammers handed record US$234 million fine -- eat that
The US CAN-SPAM law has chewed another alleged spam outfit, this time handing out a world record fine of US$234 million to two individuals.
Article | 14/05/2008 Red Hat's Fedora 9 debuts with new features
Red Hat Fedora users who wanted an easier way to use the popular and free community-supported Linux operating system on portable USB thumb drives have...
Article | 14/05/2008 Apple confirms Jobs will kick off WWDC with keynote
Apple this week confirmed what everyone has expected for months: CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in ...
Article | 14/05/2008 Survey: 20% of Americans have never sent an e-mail
Roughly one-fifth of all US households are disconnected from the Internet and have never used e-mail, according to research firm Parks Associates.
Article | 14/05/2008 Microsoft eyes 40 percent of smartphone market by 2012
Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said this week.
Article | 14/05/2008 Clock is ticking on .me domain names
Trademark-holders have until May 20 to register their company and product names under the new .me domain, which is being marketed as a generic top-lev...
Article | 14/05/2008 Japanese Internet satellite hits 1.2Gbps
Engineers testing a recently launched Japanese data communications satellite have succeeded in establishing a two-way Internet link running at 1.2G bp...
Article | 14/05/2008 Great Wall of Australia: Industry cops sanitised Internet
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has pushed ahead with the controversial [[artid:420013177|national content filtering scheme|ISP filtering]] wit...
Article | 14/05/2008 Laptop controlled irrigation revolutionising farming
Efficient management of water in some of the driest, most drought affected farming areas in NSW has reached a new world standard thanks to automated o...
Article | 14/05/2008 Windows Live services come to the BlackBerry
Microsoft and Research In Motion (RIM) have announced an agreement to provide Microsoft Windows Live services on RIM's BlackBerry smartphones, expecte...
Article | 14/05/2008 Budget benefits bush broadband
The federal government will pour $270.7 million into regional broadband incentives, [[artid:58489466|two weeks|new]] after it attempted to use the fun...
Article | 14/05/2008 Guinness confirms: GTA IV decidedly breaks records
A week after Take-Two first announced that GTA IV had broken launch day records, the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed on Tuesday.
Article | 14/05/2008 Pioneer to end Plasma display production
Japan's Pioneer plans to end production of plasma display panels as part of a restructuring program to return its operations to profit, it announced t...
Article | 14/05/2008 Facebook targeted by dodgy loan adverts
Facebook is accused of publishing rule-breaking adverts that push expensive loans to young people, it has emerged.
Article | 13/05/2008 'Sopranos', HBO shows whack flat-fee pricing on iTunes
Apple said Tuesday it is adding episodes from HBO's original programming to its pay-to-view iTunes online store, and will charge US$1 more than the us...
Article | 14/05/2008 New IBM blade billed as supercomputer for the average IT Joe
IBM Tuesday unveiled a new blade server based on the Cell chip that was originally designed to run a video game console.
Article | 14/05/2008 Icy encryption tool protects laptops from "cold boot" attack, vendor says
The vendor HyBlue says it can prevent the "cold boot" encryption hack discovered by Princeton researchers with a laptop security product announced Tue...
Article | 13/05/2008 LG launches 3G Prada phone
A year after it first went on sale, LG has unveiled a 3G WCDMA version of its Prada phone.
Article | 13/05/2008 ACS supports privacy laws, calls for e-mail safeguards
The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on government to enforce rigid privacy laws on organisations which intercept employee e-mails.
Article | 13/05/2008 BlackBerry show fans high hopes
This week's annual conference for BlackBerry users comes at a critical time for the device's creator, Research in Motion.

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