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  • Fujitsu seeks NHS payment

    Japanese giant Fujitsu has submitted a claim for payment to the UK National Health Service, following its sacking in May from the National Programme for IT.

  • UK prisoner data goes missing

    Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.

  • All's not well with UK NHS upgrade

    A British health trust serving more than 500,000 people said it had pulled out of the country's National Health Service e-health record program because it had lost confidence in the project following the departure of key supplier Fujitsu.

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    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.

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    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.

  • 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.

  • Centrelink lays off old project management ideas

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    For business users needing to keep in touch with the office on the road, the A1000 is a viable option. Others may find that life is too short to wait for applications to load.

  • The Age of Automation

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  • 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?

  • HP labs eye casual photo wear

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

  • Intel readies next handheld chips

    Intel is adding to its arsenal of processors for portable devices by developing an XScale-based processor, code-named Bulverde, for handheld computers.

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