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  • OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven?

    Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead?

  • Intel to launch 160GB SSD drive this year

    Intel has confirmed plans to launch solid state drives (SSD) this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, and claimed SSDs will beat their hard disk drive equivalents on failure rates.

  • Intel launches Atom power, devices due in June

    The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core 2 Duo-compatible but with a tenth of the power requirements, will first reach the market in a fleet of partner mobile Internet devices (MIDs) in late May or early June.

  • Mobile phone industry welcomes anti-rebirthing legislation

    The Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association (AMTA) welcomes the legislation passed by the Senate this week making it a criminal offence to "rebirth" stolen mobile phones by illegally modifying a phone's electronic serial number.

  • Chip off the old block

    Will RFID be the ruin of mankind, or will we perhaps see some benefit from the technology -- like lower prices?

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  • Stolen mobiles blocked across all Aust GSM networks

    Stolen or lost mobile phones will be blocked across all GSM networks in Australia from September 15.

  • The laptops that come in from the cold

    For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?

  • Laptops that cry Woof

    It seems that as thieves become bolder security device manufacturers have to follow suit. South African company, Daytan Projects, recently released an unusual anti-theft solution in its home nation and it's seeing if it can get the idea to stick in Australia.

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