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  • Red Hat drops consumer Linux desktop

    Red Hat's desktop software unit has revealed it's shelved plans to launch desktop Linux for the consumer market.

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    Google has given an update on the progress of its Gears project, which had its first birthday on Wednesday.

  • Western Power outsources $15m IT to beat skills crisis

    CSC has been awarded an outsourcing contract worth up to AU$21 million by West Australian electricity provider Western Power.

  • ACCC plays hard to get with ASG on IT revamp

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be seeking a new vendor for the provision of all of its ICT services at the end of June, but the organisation has remained tight lipped about its current arrangements.

  • Australian cybercrime goes under the microscope

    The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has launched a new study into the effects of cybercrime on Australian commerce by commissioning a survey of more than 10,000 businesses across the country, seeking information about their experiences with online transgressions and what is being done to prevent them.

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    Sticky situations for USB stick support

    There's an argument against the usage of USB sticks which has been discussed many times in this column: they're a potentially massive security risk. But there's another case you could make against having your business life stored in 4GB or so of flash memory it's a total support nightmare.

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    Lotus Notes needs the shrinkwrap treatment

    Most people agree that IBM's Lotus Notes product is one of the most advanced and popular collaboration suites out there.

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  • Promoting IT services internally

    Knowing that promoting IT to the company was his number-one priority, one CIO found a communication model in an unlikely source.

  • IBM and Google team up on cluster computing

    IBM and Google on Monday released details of their academic cluster computing initiative that will provide datacentres for remote computer programming.

  • Apple sneaks past Intel to make own processors?

    If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and sneaky little Atoms nibbling away at the ARM embedded market.

  • Adobe plots its path on the Web

    Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business.

  • HP's PC dreams

    By combining the printer and PC units, HP is fusing its cash cow with a unit that has struggled to achieve consistent profitability. Will it work?

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  • Photos: Lenovo drives F1 team

    En route to Melbourne this weekend, Formula 1 team AT&T Williams' lead driver Nico Rosberg hopes to power ahead thanks to a new sponsorship deal with Lenovo.

  • 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.

  • What's new for PCs in 2004?

    To mark the start of a new year, here's a roundup of the likely trends in processors, graphics, peripherals and notebooks over the next 12 months.

  • New NEC machine cuts down the noise

    The NEC Mate is a compact PC that uses less power and operates more quietly than other desktop machines. In fact, it's so quiet that the company says the only noise it makes sounds like rustling leaves.

  • Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS 450r

    The StorCenter Pro NAS 450r is a generously-specified appliance running Windows Storage Server 2003. While it scores on performance, it's pricey and lacks capacity.

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