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by Stan Beer
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Intel has moved into the flash memory market for mobile phones with the intention of cutting the price of mobiles with cheaper flash chips.
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by Stan Beer
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The upgrade path to Vista is going to be a difficult, complicated and costly for most business users if we are to believe Microsoft's published report.
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by Stan Beer
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While watching a full length movie on an iPod or even a PC may not appeal to many, downloading a series of cartoons may well appeal to some who want a quick chuckle while riding the train to and from work or school. At least, that's what Apple and Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) believe.
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by Stan Beer
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MSN Spaces, the web site that lets users create their own web sites and blogs, has been given a facelift and relaunched as Windows Live Spaces, essentially Microsoft's answer to social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster.
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by Stan Beer
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eEye Digital Security, the security company which specialises in finding flaws in the products of other security companies, has been at it again. This time the object of attention is SecurityCenter, the flagship consumer product of anti-virus behemoth McAfee, which was under eEye's microscope only last month.
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by Stan Beer
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Australia’s largest commercial software developer, Mincom Limited, has announced a record fourth quarter, which has pushed its annual revenues close to the $200 million mark.
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by Stan Beer
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Security & Defence initiatives are stimulating strong spending on IT in the Asian Public Sector, according to a new study. The regional market (excluding Japan) for spending by this public sector segment saw IT spending increase to US$3.8 billion in 2005.
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by Stan Beer
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Shrugging off a raging price war in the desktop processor space with Intel, chip maker AMD has struck back to jointly announce a deal with IBM for the supply of Opteron chips.
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by Stan Beer
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Like HP before it, Apple Computer is recalling defective batteries in its MacBook Pro notebooks. However, unlike the HP case, the Apple batteries are not a fire risk.
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by Stan Beer
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Well we all saw it coming and now it's here - a mobile phone that has the look, feel and consumer appeal of an iPod. Except it isn't made by Apple.
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by Stan Beer
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Showing its support for the open source movement, search kingpin Google has launched a site for developers to host open source projects.
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by Stan Beer
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According to Linux software company Novell, its latest Linux release Suse Linux Enterprise 10 is getting a rockin' reception or at least a pretty goodly sum of downloads from users around the world.
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by Stan Beer
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Microsoft, the ultimate proprietary software company, plans to impose fees on users who wish to download Office 2007 Beta 2. Could this possibly be the beginning of an online software delivery model from Redmond?
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by Stan Beer
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While everybody from analysts to technologists are talking up the phenomenal performance of the latest Intel Core2 Duo range of dual-core processors, taking a back-seat has been the less glamorous but probably more important edge the range has in power consumption.
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by Stan Beer
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The Finnish creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, has lashed out the latest draft version of the general public license GPL, which governs the Linux kernel because of restrictions on the use of digital rights management (DRM) in systems.
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by Stan Beer
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US-based internet security firm SurfControl has warned email users to be on the lookout for an email phishing scam that appears to be a message from Microsoft.
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