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• Lenovo looking for acquisitions

  China-based PC and gadget manufacturer Lenovo on Thursday confirmed that it was talking to "independent third parties" about potential acquisitions and investments.

• Leaked memo exposes Dell's plans

  Dell is to consider selling PCs through a reseller channel, breaking the direct sales model which has seen it become one of the world's top two computer vendors.

• Negroponte turns up the heat on Intel

  Intel has denied claims made by One Laptop per Child that it broke a "non-disparagement" agreement and hit back at suggestions that it did not even contribute "a single line of code" to the project.

• AFP, Microsoft roll out predator tracking system

  The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced today that it will be rolling out a new investigative logistics system developed by Microsoft for its online child protection unit, only a day after Queensland police swooped on Australian members of a global paedophile network.

• Sun software follows lead of dot-Net

  Sun Microsystems is to announce details of its Web-based software framework in an attempt to throw off its image as a pure hardware company.

Features and Case Studies (6)

• Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

  After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.

• Is mobile Linux ready for the enterprise?

  Cutting costs by deploying Linux is a well-established strategy on the server and even the desktop, but what effect could it have on the cost of mobile computing?

• 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.

• 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.

• UnitedLinux moves closer to OS goal

  UnitedLinux, a combined effort to create a uniform version of Linux for businesses, has indicated that it will ship a test version of its code later this month.

Reviews (1)

• UnitedLinux won't tip Red Hat

  A move by four sellers of Linux to unite behind a single version of the operating system might help those allies--and boost Linux's popularity--but it isn't likely to dent the dominance of the top dog, Red Hat.

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