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• 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.

• UNE IT boss takes CQU spot

  University of New England IT Director Peter Edwards will jump ship to take the top IT role at Central Queensland University.

• Intel, universities create world network

  Intel, Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, and a host of other academic and industrial heavyweights have banded together to take the lag out of getting data from halfway around the world.

• UNE selects vendors for network overhaul

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

• Supercomputer to write history of universe

  Britain will unveil a state-of-the-art supercomputer that scientists hope will unlock the secrets of the origins of the universe.

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• Have (IT) certs will travel?

  Is certification better than experience? Here's what industry analysts and IT professionals have to say, including issues with MCSE.

• 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.

• Centrelink lays off old project management ideas

  The sheer size and breadth of Centrelink's operations has always meant project management there is a Herculean effort. Taking a new approach to its people and project scheduling has improved the situation dramatically -- but change hasn't been easy.

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• 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.

• 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?

• Antenna to boost wireless security

  An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to British scientists.

• 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?

• Does schmoozing make robots clever?

  A Belgian professor doing research for Sony wants to teach robots to be more like people--but he's running into some resistance.

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