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  • eBay lays off 1,000 as it acquires

    eBay will lay off about 10 per cent of its workforce, the company announced Monday in the US, and said third-quarter results will come in at the low end of expectations.

  • Twitter targeted by malware attacks

    Microblogging service Twitter has started to be targeted by online criminals with malware.

  • Yahoo allows Flickr users to upload video

    In a bid to broaden Flickr and put some pressure on Google's YouTube Yahoo is allowing users to upload video content to its popular photo-sharing site.

  • 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.

  • Final deadline looms in OOXML vote

    Lobbying has intensified ahead of Saturday, 29 March, the deadline for Microsoft to convince the world that its Office Open XML (OOXML) specification should be accepted as a formal standard.

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    Do you really need 16GB on your phone?

    Pronouncing that a given device doesn't need any more storage is a near-foolproof recipe for looking stupid somewhere down the line. However, I'm sceptical that many people need a 16GB mini-SD card for their phone.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Australian twitterati talks malware

    It was inevitable that micro-blogging service Twitter would become infested with malware, according to a number of high-profile Australian users of the service.

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  • Avis Budget Group: John Turato, VP of Technology

    John Turato, Vice President of Technology for Avis-Budget Group talks about managing technical operations for a rental fleet of more than 400,000 vehicles worldwide. Turato also discusses transformation at the rental car operator, and his other role, Chairman of the OpenTravel Alliance, a group of companies developing web 2.0 standards for the online travel industry.

  • KVM steals virtualisation spotlight

    A new open-source virtual-machine project has quickly won Linux allies, but its arrival brings complications.

  • CRM's new breed swells

    Hosted customer relationship management (CRM) is showing signs of gaining critical mass with two emerging players gaining traction with both enterprise and small- to medium-sized organisations in Australia.

  • How Hewlett-Packard can be saved

    We give incoming HP CEO Mark Hurd a few words of advice ... like ditch the Gulfstreams.

  • Avis bins PeopleSoft system after ,45m IT failure

    Car rental firm Avis Europe has taken a multi-million-pound hit on its bottom line due to problems with its IT.

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  • AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

    While the higher power consumption is a slight concern, the X4 955 proves that AMD is back in the performance game and ready to play hard ball. Bring on the next generation.

  • WordPerfect Office X4

    Many free and inexpensive office suites are available for download or for use in a web browser. So what's the advantage of paying a pretty penny for a desktop office suite? Corel's WordPerfect Office X4 offers a strong software package that comes closest to the breadth and depth of features found in Microsoft Office.

  • Nokia N810 Internet Tablet

    Its excellent, sleek design doesn't cover for its sluggish performance.

  • Toshiba TDP-EW25

    If you need a data projector which is truly portable, yet has the flexibility to operate with diverse data sources, perhaps the Toshiba EW25 is the machine for you.

  • Nokia 330 Auto Navigation

    Nokia has made a decent first attempt at offering a personal navigation device but the product is marred by the lack of Bluetooth, and is outdone by its better equipped and similarly priced rivals.

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