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    The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.

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  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Boag's finds great ERP takes time to brew

    A major enterprise resource planning implementation has sped reporting, added flexibility and supported rapid growth at beer maker J. Boag & Son. But with success came myriad challenges with employees keen to hold onto the old way of doing things -- pen and paper versus the computer. We examine Boag's ERP turnaround.

  • Migration news: Windows to Linux, and vice versa

    Why did national radio broadcaster Austereo Group and consultancy Coffey International drop Linux for Windows? And why did soon-to-be-listed Wotif.com abandon Microsoft technologies for Red Hat and Oracle?

  • Battle brews over unlocking PC secrets

    The BIOS is one of the most closely guarded pieces of your system's software. Now some people want to set it free.

  • Buy vs build: The pendulum swings

    So, your backend systems are showing signs of age? Put down the chequebook; we've found that when it comes to building business apps, many companies are back in the driver's seat.

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    ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about the brewing suit-countersuit situation between Apple and Psystar. In an effort to quash the sale of Psystar's cheap Mac OS-running computers and preserve its carefully crafted image and reputation, Apple sued the Miami-based company. Now Psystar has lobbed back...

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  • Norton AntiVirus 2005

    Norton adds worm protection to Norton AntiVirus 2005, but for the price, the company should have added a full firewall instead.

  • Motorola MPx200

    Heavyweights Motorola and Microsoft unite to produce the MPx200; a sleek, all-black clamshell smart phone. Read our Australian review.

  • Zone Labs brews up antispam deal

    Computer-security maker Zone Labs will bundle antispam software from Cloudmark with its products, both companies are expected to announce Tuesday.

  • A PC-style turf war in the phone market?

    The world of smart phones is condensing around fewer platforms, raising the spectre of PC-style commoditisation in the wireless world, according to an analyst report.

  • AMD revs up transistor designs

    Researchers at Advanced Micro Devices report significant new design techniques that the company says will lead--eventually--to higher chip performance.

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    Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
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    Following yesterday's admission by the Australian Taxation Office that its courier had lost a CD containing the details of 3,000 self-managed super funds, it wants to review how it handles information. My suggestion: go back to the review completed in April.
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    News headlines about portable storage devices going missing are as common as muck, but the problem could be even more widespread than you suspect.
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