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    The NSW government is asking Linux companies seeking appointment to a panel of suppliers to its agencies to address their ability to protect customers from "anti-Linux" litigation.

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    Congress managed to pull the plug last year on the Pentagon's data-mining plan known as Total Information Awareness, but it turns out that the effects were only fleeting.

  • Taming the Web

    Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.

  • Inside the San Fran network lockout

    A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears.

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    The NSW government is moving to clamp down on crime rings' stealing and trafficking in credit card data following recent thefts involving information from users of automatic teller machines (ATMs).

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    Security professionals say they're making computing safer, but are they doing more harm than good? We find out what industry experts have to say.

  • Real-life internet scammers dissected

    Listen to audio recordings of conversations with real-life internet scammers in this guide to their history and recent activities.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • Wireless networking 10 times faster?

    Bruce Watkins, president and COO of Pulse~LINK, talks up a new chipset that promises wireless networking at lighting speeds. Additional reading: Untangling the wireless future

  • The office of the future?

    Broadband and biometrics help NEC reinvent the workaday world. The average length of meetings has dropped 20 percent and conference room time is down 70 percent.

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  • Notebook overhaul on the horizon

    Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.

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