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• Apple grows Australian market share

  Apple's share of the Australian personal computer market has jumped sharply in the last year, according to statistics released this week by Australia's two largest technology analyst firms.

• Acer merges with Gateway, leapfrogs Lenovo

  Acer needs help getting ahead, and Gateway needs help keeping up. Both hope a merger will do the trick -- and put them ahead of rival Lenovo in the process.

• Apple, Dell wind down battery recall efforts

  Apple and Dell have managed to track down and replace the vast majority of their potentially "exploding" batteries, which has allowed airlines to lift the restrictions placed on the use of notebooks in-flight.

• Locked up and fancy free

  Would you buy a laptop locked to Vodafone's network, or would you prefer to wait for a more open solution?

• Michael Dell: Vista will win out in two years

  Despite research that found Vista uptake among businesses is slowing, Michael Dell has predicted that most companies will migrate to the OS within two years.

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• Managing your move into mobility

  With the benefits of mobile data access well and truly taken for granted, the spectre of several false starts is finally far behind the market for smaller smartphone and PDA styled mobile devices.

• Are PC makers poised for major hit?

  A third of today's top 10 manufacturers could exit the PC business by 2007, according to a new report.

• IBM exit a sign of times

  Big Blue's plan to sell its PC unit to China's Lenovo Group (formerly known as Legend) would be the latest example of a move toward consolidation as the market reaches maturity.

• Lenovo creates Ideas for PC market

  Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.

• Itanium seen trailing rivals in 2007

  Although the sale of servers based around Intel's Itanium chips will grow, they will still lag behind IBM and Sun, one research firm says.

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  Michael Dell talks turnaround strategy

  At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Florida, Michael Dell talks to Gartner research analysts about the company's renewed focus on customer-centricity, such as the company's plan to introduce new notebooks and a move into on-demand streaming.

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• Lenovo creates Ideas for PC market

  Lenovo is moving away from its business origins with the launch of a new consumer oriented PC line, dubbed the "Idea" range, later this month.

• Intel wireless plans begin with new chip

  Intel is betting that wireless technology will be the biggest thing since the browser, and new notebooks coming Wednesday will be an early indication of whether the company is right.

• And Then There Was Light

  The appeal of a tiny 1.58 kg notebook is obvious to those who lug around a traditional laptop. But what isn't as well known is that many of the negatives of these machines are fading away.

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