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  • Dell launches netbook

    Dell has launched an inexpensive laptop with a small keyboard and screen, dubbed a netbook, four months after it was originally anticipated that the Texan firm would enter the netbook market.

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    Close-up photos of Australian homes, businesses and famous landmarks in cities, towns and remote areas are now available on Google Maps Australia, absolutely free.

  • Bloodbath at Alcatel-Lucent

    Both the chairman and chief executive of Alcatel-Lucent are to step down later this year, following the telecommunications equipment firm's sixth consecutive quarter of losses.

  • IBM to buy Ilog

    IBM has agreed to buy French software company Ilog for 215m (AU$353.5m), IBM said on Monday in Europe.

  • Google balks at revealing YouTube viewing habits

    Viacom wants to know which videos YouTube employees have watched and uploaded to the site, and Google is refusing to provide that information.

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    Celebrity comes with its perks free alcohol, better-looking partners, lots of holiday time and disadvantages constant media intrusions, being forced to appear in films with Eddie Murphy for the long-term good of your career, and having to do mindless radio interviews with angry men who've been awake since 4am.

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Digital TV for the blind (the ones leading the blind)

    Might I suggest that the government, which so far has handled the issue with kid gloves, take a chance for once and reach over and just pull the digital TV plug?

  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Aussie PCs valuable for all the wrong reasons

    When foreign markets are willing to pay twice as much for your exports, it's usually a good sign. Unfortunately for Australia, the goods being traded are compromised PCs but why are Australians worth twice as much as Americans?

  • Read the blog post - David Braue

    Telstra: once bitten, twice ... why not?

    The mobile market in India, I recently learned, is racing towards 300 million -- and doing so at a rate of 8.77 million new subscribers per month, according to the latest government figures.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    On the road with ICT

    During a recent trip overseas, I marvelled at how technology has radically altered the way we travel

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  • How Estonia's attacks shook the world

    The idea that attacks on computer systems could provide an alternative method of spreading terror and disruption has been a concern for governments since IT systems began to proliferate.

  • Photos: Airbus A380 lands in Sydney

    Singapore Airlines, the first carrier to take ownership of the world's largest passenger jet, the Airbus A380, has flown its inaugural commercial flight from Singapore to Sydney. ZDNet Australia visited Sydney Airport to see what customers can expect from what's been dubbed the "big fella".

  • Around the world in ... In-flight connectivity

    There are fewer and fewer places in the modern world where Internet access and mobile signals can't be found. The inside of an in-flight aircraft has remained one of the connectivity-free bastions -- but that's all about to change.

  • Around the world in ... Fibre-to-the-home

    If the world's homes are to enjoy the same high speed connectivity as its offices, the current thinking goes, then fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) will soon become necessary. However, not all Internet economies were created equal.

  • 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.

Videos (2)

  • Planet CNET: Spins, blurs, and flashing lights

    It sounds like a bad acid trip, but on this edition of Planet CNET, we spin in Singapore, get blurred out in France, and witness some mesmerizing flashing lights in the United States.

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    Watch robots fight, drive the Autobahn without going to Germany and use the Internet to predict the future. San Francisco, Germany and France check in on this episode of Planet CNET.

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