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Article | 15/01/2008 China Mobile reportedly rebuffs Apple's iPhone

China Mobile Communications, which has been talking with Apple for more than two months about serving as the US company's iPhone partner, has broken o...

Article | 15/01/2008 New Trojan intercepts online banking information

A new Trojan program is targeting unwitting users' bank data by intercepting account information before it is encrypted and sending it to a central at...

Article | 14/01/2008 New Pacific cable set to make broadband cheaper

PIPE Networks on Monday announced the approval of a $200m undersea cable system stretching from Sydney to Guam which it claims will inject much needed...

Article | 15/01/2008 10,000 Web sites rigged with advanced hacking attack

A sophisticated hacking scheme seen early last year is affecting an increasing number of Web servers, including one owned by a major online advertisin...

Article | 15/01/2008 Google redesigns mobile applications after iPhone surge

Google, inundated with traffic from iPhone users over the holidays, has hurriedly made improvements to its mobile Web applications that will enable fa...

Article | 15/01/2008 Packeteer readies faster generation of traffic-shaping gear

Packeteer Networks in a few weeks will be coming out with a faster generation of its traffic-shaping gear that eventually will reach 20Gbps throughput...

Article | 14/01/2008 CES - Plasma and LCD TVs getting thinner

Ultra-thin flat panel displays were the highlight of this year's International Consumer Electronics Show, with many vendors showing thinner and sleeke...

Article | 14/01/2008 Child Wise CEO calls for government re-think on ISP filtering

Child Wise CEO Bernadette McMenamin has clarified her position on the Federal government's plan to implement mandatory Internet filtering at the ISP l...

Article | 14/01/2008 Great wall of Australia: Industry rejects sanitised Internet

Internet Service Providers (ISPs), IT managers and the Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) have slammed the federal government's national content fil...

Article | 14/01/2008 CES - Power your gadgets by sun and water

While the Consumer Electronics Association announced that it would go green by purchasing 20,000 tons' worth of carbon offsets, a few companies at CES...

Article | 14/01/2008 Intel releases low-cost Clear Bay server platform

Intel has developed a whitebox blade server based on standardised components, instead of specialised parts usually used to produce such systems.

Article | 14/01/2008 Hacked MySpace page serves up fake Windows update

There's now one more reason to be security-conscious while using MySpace.com: fake Microsoft updates.

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Toshiba shows prototype TV running on Cell chip

What happens when you take the powerful Cell microprocessor, the chip that sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3 games console, and put it to use ins...

Article | 11/01/2008 Facebook 'Secret Crush' not our fault, Zango CEO says

The 'Secret Crush' malicious widget that tricks Facebook users into downloading spyware is not something dreamt up by Zango, the adware company's CEO ...

Article | 11/01/2008 LittleBigPlanet - CES Demonstration

Sony shows more LittleBigPlanet than we can handle at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Slouching toward Convergence 2.0

Gadgets have always taken center stage at the Consumer Electronics Show, but this year more than ever, even the coolest devices seem to be mere means ...

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - A sensitive arm is the next big thing for robots

Making a robot laugh by tickling it may be fun, but robots could mean real business when they get arms and hands that mimic the dexterity and sensitiv...

Article | 11/01/2008 Microsoft may consider Blu-ray for Xbox 360 after all

May drop HD-DVD 'if consumers vote that way'.

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Alienware monitor designed to draw in gamers

Alienware is looking to lure gamers deeper into their computer game experience.

Article | 11/01/2008 CES - Vendors tune 802.11n devices to meet networking demands

One of the surprises to emerge from CES 2008 is the idea that the 802.11n wireless LAN standard just isn't good enough.