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by Jake Widman
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A poll by U.S. shopping and reviews site Retrevo has shown that Apple may not be able to get its rumored price for a new tablet computer. Meanwhile, new reports and rumors indicate that Apple may be pursuing e-reader content for the device from American and Australian publishing partners.
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by Peter Dinham
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Australian IT professional services company, Datacom, has achieved the highest Green IT readiness rating yet achieved by any organisation in Australia in the RMIT University-Connection Research Green IT Readiness Index.
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by James Riley
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The Australian Bankers Association has rejected calls for bank customers to be given an explicit choice about whether personal information is processed offshore or in Australia, and said its members were already required get consent from customers about the handling of data when they signed up for services.
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by Stephen Withers
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Carl Icahn has quit from Yahoo!'s board of directors, and may have lost more than $US100 million on the company's shares. He became involved as a result of Microsoft's attempt to acquire Yahoo in 2008.
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by Stephen Withers
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A partnership between Adobe and Salesforce.com has brought Flash to the latter's Force.com applications platform.
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by Stephen Withers
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Netgear is bragging that its ProSecure UTM (unified threat management) appliances for SMEs outperformed similar devices from other vendors in third-party testing of their ability to block malware and spam.
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by Beverley Head
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More than 300 entrepreneurs, investors and tyre kickers turned out for the first Tech23 event in Sydney today, which was established to showcase local innovation and forge links between the money-men and the ideas-gurus.
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by Stephen Withers
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An international version of the BBC's iPlayer TV catchup service could be on the cards. Just don't expect access to the UK iPlayer from overseas, and do expect to open your wallet.
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by David Heath
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The UK Guardian newspaper has confirmed that a hacking attack on their UK-based GuardianJobs site has 'liberated' around 500,000 resumes.
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by David M Williams
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Microsoft Windows 7 has finally hit retail outlets and is available to the public. Microsoft is pinning hopes to 7 to repair the sour taste of Vista. Yet not all is glowing; users looking to upgrade from earlier Windows releases need to be aware of an unprecedented lengthy upgrade time.
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by James Riley
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The ease with which personal information can be sent offshore for processing by banks and other financial institutions puts tens of thousands of jobs at risk over the next decade, according to the Finance Sector Union.
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by Beverley Head
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In less than three weeks the price Australians can expect to pay for a Kindle e-book has dropped from $314 to $280. If the $A achieves parity with the $US it could fall another $21 – leaving local Christmas shoppers literally hedging their bets about when to buy.
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by Stephen Withers
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NASA has released a free iPhone app giving convenient access to a variety of NASA images and information. The app was developed at a NASA research centre.
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by Sam Varghese
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A British newspaper has revived the debate over mobile phones and cancer by reporting that an investigation overseen by the World Health Organisation found that heavy users may have a higher risk of developing tumours later in life.
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by Stephen Withers
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Mac 'cloner' Psystar originally shipped complete systems. Now it's taking a new tack with its announcement of Rebel EFI, a software package designed to allow the installation of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on other vendors' hardware.
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by Jake Widman
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A report prepared for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission describes the ways the Chinese government is preparing to fight a cyber war, and concludes that China is probably already practicing some of the techniques against the U.S. and other countries.
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