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  • Hackers organise vandalism contest

    A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.

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    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has released its half-yearly results reporting that greater spending on its investments at large has been offset by a reduction in its IT costs.

  • CommBank gnaws off $1bn from EDS contract

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia announced today that before the year is out, it will finalise contract negotiations with HCL, IBM and Tata Consultancy for application services work worth AU$1 billion over five years.

  • IBM simulates business software in 3D game

    IBM has introduced a three-dimensional video game that puts a businessperson in a virtual office with the task of constructing a more efficient company.

  • US patent reform has ICT industry approval

    The high-tech industry has given the thumbs up to sweeping changes to the US patent system approved by the Senate and House committees last week.

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  • Hackers organise vandalism contest

    A call for online vandals to take part in a Web site defacement contest has some companies warning clients to beware over the US holiday weekend.

  • Unix servers: Who's the boss?

    Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful

  • Microsoft to take direct shots at Linux rivals

    Microsoft is refining its "Get the Facts" Linux attack, taking specific aim at Red Hat, Novell and IBM rather than the broader movement around the open-source operating system.

  • Linux community scoffs at SCO's evidence

    As pictures of contested Linux code make their way online, open-source enthusiasts are bashing The SCO Group for its claims that the code shows it has legal rights over the OS.

  • IBM to Sun: free Java

    Big Blue heavyweight Bob wants Sun's Java to be open-sourced and ultimately turned into a standard.

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  • Desktop dream machines

    RMIT Test Lab finally got its hands on some of the most powerful business PCs on the market. So it is with an eagerness bordering on unadulterated glee that Matt Tett puts these racehorses through their paces.

  • Squeeze Linux into Xbox, win US$200,000

    A software development project aimed at getting the Linux operating system to run on Microsoft's Xbox is offering a larger incentive for would-be developers--to the tune of US$200,000.

  • IDE makes a quiet century

    Note the milestones in personal computing: The 1M mark for the floppy was passed about 8 years ago; the 1GHz mark for desktop CPUs was crossed two years ago. Earlier this year another one passed so quietly we barley noticed.

  • Lotus alternative to Office XP

    We love plucky underdogs, and Lotus SmartSuite is certainly one of them-there's no question that this suite has slipped below the radar.

  • Burn For You -- 5 DVD Burners Tested

    Pre-recorded DVDs like DVD-ROM and DVD-Video discs have been around for some time now but it has only been recently that recordable and re-writeable DVDs are becoming most talked about.

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