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  • New group to build Asian Linux

    Engineers and programmers have met in Thailand to discuss beginning to develop an open-source system for the Asia-Pacific region.

  • Perth Wi-Fi carrier eyes Sydney, Melbourne

    Fledgling Perth-based wireless carrier and systems integrator aCure would like to extend its metropolitan Wi-Fi mesh network to East coast cities through a partnership arrangement.

  • Ballmer: We need a $100 PC

    What's one of Steve Ballmer's biggest headaches? It's not Linux or security breaches. It's piracy, the Microsoft chief executive officer said Wednesday.

  • Is Ballmer's $100 PC possible?

    Microsoft's chief executive may well think that a $100 PC will solve the problem of software piracy - but it's a question of who is willing to bear the cost.

  • Tsunami tragedy: World turns to the Web

    Charities are using the Internet to bring in donations quickly, as bloggers bring eyewitness accounts from the disaster area.

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  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra: once bitten, twice ... why not?

    The mobile market in India, I recently learned, is racing towards 300 million -- and doing so at a rate of 8.77 million new subscribers per month, according to the latest government figures.

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  • Negroponte's laptop plan moves closer to reality

    Nicholas Negroponte is a man on a mission. As Chairman of the One Laptop per Child program (OLPC), he has big plans ahead of him: to help eliminate poverty through education, via US$100 laptops distributed to the world's poorest children.

  • Is Ballmer's $100 PC possible?

    Microsoft's chief executive may well think that a $100 PC will solve the problem of software piracy - but it's a question of who is willing to bear the cost.

  • Wireless: Breaking the shackles

    We look at four examples of the way mobile technologies such as GPRS and 802.11 are giving Australian businesses the opportunity to bring the benefits of connectivity to mobile workers.

  • A billion PC users on the way

    By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.

  • How outsourcing saved one catering company

    Outsourcing can be a contentious issue, but catering company Sodexho has found that when done right, it can make life much easier.

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  • Karaoke - the latest in mobile content

    The sight of people talking into their mobile phones as they walk down the street is normal. But Singapore's largest telco SingTel is hoping that users will take to staring at their handsets devices and singing.

  • Japan gets to work on 4G comms

    Japan is the home of hi-tech, but unfortunately most if it is incompatible with international standards. But things are changing, starting with 4G mobile phones.

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