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• BigPond doubles cable speeds

  Telstra's BigPond Internet service provider plans next month to boost its cable broadband network speeds to up to 17Mbps.

• White knight waiting in PeopleSoft wings?

  Oracle surprised PeopleSoft on Friday with a $5.1 billion unsolicited takeover offer. But before this saga reaches its denouement, might a white knight surprise with a counterbid of its own?

• Microsoft sends message with Unix deal

  Microsoft's licensing of rights to Unix technology from the SCO Group lends heavyweight backing to SCO's intellectual-property claims and helps Microsoft combat Linux, a growing marketplace threat to its operating system, analysts said.

• Sun, Oracle to push budget Blades

  Sun Microsystems is expected to unveil Monday in the U.S. a partnership with software maker Oracle to promote the use of stripped-down blade servers as a way to lower computing costs.

• Fibre channel competitor wins approval

  Formal ratification of the iSCSI standard paves the way for greater adoption by storage companies and customers.

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  Is cable the answer to our broadband woes?

  Somewhere along the line, it became assumed that xDSL technologies -- which run over the last-mile of wiring so tightly controlled by Telstra -- were the only way forward for Australian broadband.

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• Free OpenOffice for Mac users

  Sun Microsystems has released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers.

• Leaked document gives peek at Dell plan

  An internal Dell Computer document leaked onto the Internet offers a sneak peek at the company's plans for the handheld market.

• Merging: how will HP, Compaq do it Down Under?

  Following approval by HP shareholders earlier this week for the Compaq Computer acquisition, the question remains as to how this will impact the Australian marketplace.

• Compaq shareholders approve HP union

  Compaq Computer shareholders have voted 9-to-1 in favour of a deal which may see Hewlett-Packard acquire Compaq, however, the struggle is not over, with the Hewlett family continuing to campaign vigorously against any merger.

Reviews (8)

• Sharp, IBM put Zaurus in business

  IBM and Sharp said Friday they will work together to make Sharp's Linux-based handheld more attractive to businesses.

• New Ipaqs take high road, low road

  Australians can expect to see Hewlett-Packard's new deluxe iPaq sometime in December, but there are no current plans to release its new budget model in Australia.

• Free OpenOffice for Mac users

  Sun Microsystems has released the first beta of OpenOffice, the open-source sibling of its StarOffice package, for Mac OS X computers.

• Leaked document gives peek at Dell plan

  An internal Dell Computer document leaked onto the Internet offers a sneak peek at the company's plans for the handheld market.

• Mac OS X upgrade doesn't come cheap

  Apple Computer fans who rushed to Mac OS X last year learned Wednesday that there's no such thing as a cheap upgrade.

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