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• BT rolls out fibre to 10m UK homes

  British Telecom on Tueday in the UK announced plans to roll out fibre connectivity to millions of UK homes, in an initiative worth 1.5bn.

• UK researchers fine-tune picture passwords

  Researchers at England's Newcastle University have developed graphical passwords for mobile devices, and hope to expand the uses of the software.

• Doctors log on to fight SARS outbreak

  The Internet helps speed information and research to the medical community as it searches for a means of prevention and cure.

• Industry Profile: John Galloway

  Dr John Galloway made his name by demonstrating the link between sheep shows, Indian farming communities and insurance fraud.

• UNE selects vendors for network overhaul

  The University of New England has chosen NEC as the key vendor in its new campus network rollout.

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• 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.

• In cyberspace, no one can hear you scheme

  Second Life, with an alleged population of 7.979 million, is changing the way businesses think about what their customers want, and whether "virtual" is a viable way to give it to them.

• Sony's brave Sir Howard

  Sony has been in the news a lot in the last year, but mostly for the wrong reasons.

• Is your monitor glow revealing your data?

  Now there's a way law enforcement agents can read data displayed on a user's computer monitor, even when they can't see the screen. All they need is a special light detector and lab hardware. Are your secrets being unveiled?

• The server virtualisation vendor landscape

  We look at the virtual machine software market's three principal players: Microsoft, VMware and Xen.

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• HP labs eye casual photo wear

  Researchers in England explore an always-on, wearable camera that could capture images automatically.

• Samsung unveils fastest handheld chip

  The Korean electronics giant says it has developed the world's fastest mobile CPU, which runs at a core speed of 533MHz, and outpaces Intel's processor. But for how long?

• New technology sees through objects

  Researchers in Europe have made advances with a new technology that could one day be used to detect explosives or biological weapons in parcels, locate cancers beneath the skin, reveal the state of wounds beneath dressings and see through fog.

• The Age of Automation

  The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler.

• Study: What drives us to distraction?

  Why do some drivers crash while dialling their mobile phone, and others manoeuvre smoothly while applying lipstick, sending e-mail or fiddling with the radio in stop-and-go traffic?

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