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    Tropfest Best Comedy winner Jayce White's other claim to fame is creating the emoticons for Yahoo Messenger. We talk to him about the design process, upcoming smileys and his favourite emoticon.

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    Do you really need 16GB on your phone?

    Pronouncing that a given device doesn't need any more storage is a near-foolproof recipe for looking stupid somewhere down the line. However, I'm sceptical that many people need a 16GB mini-SD card for their phone.

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    Mene, mene, tekel, iPhone: What the finger hath wrought

    Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.

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    For all the horror stories of farmers left stranded by the shutdown of the CDMA network, there are plenty of success stories.

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    In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?

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    Spammers are increasingly turning to mobile text-messaging, Web-based instant messaging, blogs and social-networking communities such as MySpace.com, according to mail services company MessageLabs.

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    Malicious attacks now come cloaked in messages that appear to have been sent by a known instant messaging contact -- even more reason to be wary.

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    Instant messaging has been touted as offering a range of business benefits. But there are also security and HR issues that Australian CIOs and IT managers should carefully consider.

  • Opening the door to better collaboration

    A new generation of enterprise portals offers a way to collabrate and interact, but getting workers to give up e-mail may be their biggest challenge.

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    For a decentralised company that has many different business units spread out all over the world, deciding how those business units communicate is an important decision.

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    Australians can now view their Hotmail accounts via SMS, following the formation of a partnership between NineMSN and Vodafone.

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    With an interface that lacks ads but is also short on features, this early Google Talk beta serves Gmail users who want to chat via text or voice.

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    We take a look at four top chat apps, all of them free, and weigh the relative merits of each.

  • AOL AIM 5.5

    Although it offers more business-oriented features than any other IM we reviewed, AIM 5.5 will still appeal mostly to home users.

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    ICQ, along with Yahoo Messenger, offers the most options for customisation and everyday use at home or in the office.

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