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  • London Olympics gets CIO

    A chief information officer has been appointed to deliver the technology behind the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.

  • Red Hat's Fedora 8 hope: An all-purpose Linux foundation

    Over the years, Red Hat's Fedora has made a name for itself as a version of Linux for enthusiasts, developers, and those who want to try the latest thing in open-source software. But a curious feature of the new version 8, released Thursday, is the ability to strip out the Fedora identity altogether.

  • First game arrives for AMD 64-bit chip

    The first computer game designed to take full advantage of the 64-bit features of Advanced Micro Devices' Athlon chip came out Tuesday, although the operating system to run it won't appear for about another year.

  • IBM makes play for online games

    IBM is set to release on Tuesday in the U.S. an early version of software intended to allow game developers to easily build support for business functions into online games.

  • Nokia confirms N-Gage hack, pursues pirates

    Handset maker Nokia confirmed Wednesday that hackers had managed to crack anticopying protections in games designed for its new N-Gage, a gadget that combines a cell phone with a Game Boy-like handheld gaming console.

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    Start-to-meta: the meta metric

    Seeing this week's Crate Tetris public art piece on the Wooster Collective Web site, installed next to a Melbourne highway as a sequel to Crate Man in Richmond, put me in mind of an old article written for infamous computer game site Old Man Murray.

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  • Aussie iPhone developers strike gold

    The release of the iPhone 3G in July 2008 led to the creation of an entire industry where developers worked on their own applications to sell through Apple's App Store. This trend has since been picked up by larger companies. Read about why such a phenomenon is fast becoming a success.

  • Why you should (and shouldn't) upgrade to Vista

    There are plenty of reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and there are also plenty of reasons not to. Here's a look at 10 reasons why you should upgrade to Windows Vista ... and 10 reasons why you shouldn't.

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    The ASUS W7S offers powerful performance in a small portable package, and considering that it has discrete graphics, we were surprised it had excellent battery life.

  • O2 Graphite

    O2's latest phone combines many of the features of a PDA with the latest in mobile phone technology including 3G support, push e-mail and video conferencing all in conventional looking handset.

  • Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0

    We don't expect that it will win over the hardcore gamer, but for everyone else, the IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 is a fine mouse with only a few minor issues.

  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-60

    It's as fast as we imagined, but we wish AMD's new dual-core chip played better with other computer parts out of the gate.

  • Nokia N-Gage QD

    We take a look at Nokia's upgraded N-Gage portable gaming phone. Read our Australian review.

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