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• IBM joins SKA telescope bid

  Western Australia's International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research has announced a partnership with IBM to manage the data produced by the Square Kilometre Array telescope.

• Sept start for NBN regional backhaul?

  Part of the government's National Broadband Network plan, the $250 million injection to create new backhaul links in regional areas, could start construction by September this year.

• WA lays out NBN wish list

  The Western Australian Government has named a backhaul telecommunications link between Perth and Geraldton as its top priority in negotiations with the Federal Government on the $43 billion National Broadband Network.

• Aussie link-up eyes off supermassive black holes

  A first-time collaboration between Australian, Chinese and Japanese scientists has allowed new high-resolution images of black holes to be produced by linking together radio telescopes.

• IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips

  Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene.

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  It's confession time

  Yes, I confess. I used the high-speed AARNet network built for academics for hours and hours for years on end to kill people in Quake.

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• Ignite Sydney sparks up

  Ignite Sydney kicked off its inaugural event last night, with the goal of ending the "death by PowerPoint" presentation style. Twelve presenters took to the stage to take on the unique Ignite format.

• The Net: Blazing a new data speed record

  A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.

• Internet2: 2004 and beyond

  Experimental network excels at long-distance collaboration; researchers hope to up ante with hybrid optical packet infrastructure.

• Bill Gates goes to college

  Microsoft's chairman says that despite today's outsourcing trend, the United States needs to refocus on leading in computer science -- starting at its universities.

• Wireless raises the final standard

  Commentary: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need.

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• Wireless raises the final standard

  Commentary: The strangest wireless system has become more mainstream, but may still be the last thing you need.

• Mt Stromlo disaster recovery reaches for the stars

  While the Mt Stromlo observatory was largely destroyed by fire, millions of units of data have been salvaged thanks to a comprehensive disaster recovery plan.

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