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  • HP to buy 3Com for US$2.7 billion

    US computer giant Hewlett-Packard announced on Wednesday in the US that it had agreed to buy networking company 3Com for US$2.7 billion (AU$2.9 billion).

  • Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

    A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June.

  • German coder beats WWII Colossus

    A German coder has beaten the British team operating the legendary WWII code-breaking computer Colossus in a cipher-cracking contest.

  • Optus snapping at Telstra's heels

    Telstra is still bestriding Aussie telecoms like a colossus, according to the latest report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) into how the country's telcos are faring.

  • Microsoft, Novell in Linux-Windows deal

    Microsoft is entering into a technical and business collaboration with rival Novell, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced today in the US.

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  • Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

    Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records.

  • Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

    As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

  • Photos: Colossus war hero resurrected

    The Colossus code-cracking computer has recently been kicked into action for the first time in more than 60 years.

  • Dell CIO's daily challenges

    Randy Mott used to run Wal-Mart's technology division. Now, at Dell, his unit keeps 53,000 employees, eight manufacturing sites and more than 800 suppliers ticking.

  • How Hewlett-Packard can be saved

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

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  • Engin oneHub ST790

    Engin's oneHub benefits from simplicity, but also suffers from it in comparison to other all-in-one router/VoIP solutions.

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