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by Stuart Corner
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Cisco has upped the price of its bid for global video company Tandberg from $US3.0 billion to approximately $3.4 billion after failing to secure acceptances from more than 10 percent of shareholder when the, already extended, deadline of its initial bid expired on 16 November.
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by Stuart Corner
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Korean cellphone maker Samsung has unveiled its own open mobile platform, dubbed Bada for touch screen based cellphones.
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by William Atkins
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The space shuttle Atlantis and its NASA astronauts lifted off at 2:28 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) from its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Monday, November 16, 2009.
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by William Atkins
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The 48-nation International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) has agreed to cut by about one-third the quota for Atlantic bluefin tuna caught in 2009 for the 2010 fishing season. Will it be enough to save it from extinction?
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by William Atkins
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Although many factors contribute to weight gain, U.S. microbiologist Jeffrey Gordon has been collecting evidence to show that the type of foods eaten changes the composition of bacteria in the gut. Whether you have a low-fat or high-fat diet is very influential on your body’s ability to gain weight, and to lose it, too.
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by David Heath
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Today’s release of the list of the top 500 supercomputers shows that well over 90% are running Linux. Also, IBM’s Roadrunner has finally been dethroned; in a big way!
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by Peter Dinham
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Australia’s now going through a period of sustained, increased demand for skilled ICT professionals and according to the largest ICT industry recruiter, Peoplebank, the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth markets, in particular, are experiencing a strong lift in demand for IT workers.
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by Stuart Corner
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US based Boingo Wireless - which provides wireless Internet access around the globe through arrangements with local WiFi hotspot operators - has added the 16,000 Tomizone hotspots in Australia, China, India, New Zealand and several Pacific Islands, to its global network.
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by James Riley
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The agency responsible for processing 25 million international passengers annually through airports lacked an up-to-date disaster recovery plan and did not adequately track ICT-related problems, an Australian National Audit Office report has found.
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by Mike Bantick
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has broken entertainment opening day records, selling through the roof and raking in the moolah for developer Infinity Ward and publisher Activision. In doing a follow up game to the excellent original, Infinity Ward had a chance to tell a sophisticated mature tale, instead, while the action is intense, the premise is paper thin.
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by Beverley Head
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IP communications supplier Interactive Intelligence has edged out six other vendors to secure a 25 seat call management deal from Macquarie Telecom that it believes could eventually grow to a 500 seat deal.
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by James Riley
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The Commonwealth has tipped $26 million into a new supercomputer project at the Australian National University that could ultimately be used to crank through the massive volumes of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array project.
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by Stuart Corner
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Curtin University of Technology researcher, Don Griffiths, has been awarded a government grant to develop a system that enables a secure computing environment to be loaded onto a USB memory stick and then used to provide secure access to corporate applications from any PC.
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by James Riley
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The national broadband network will create new opportunities for mobile data, but the main game for the mobile carriers remains access to future spectrum allocations, Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association chief executive Chris Althaus says.
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