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• Schneier suspicious of Microsoft's security vision

  Speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week, a senior Microsoft executive sang the praises of the software giant's emerging vision for 'trust' based security, prompting one industry figurehead to label the strategy as "anti-competitive".

• Telstra flays corporate customer group

  Telstra has delivered a stinging attack on the Australian Telecommunications Users Group (ATUG), an organisation which claims some of the largest corporate users of telecommunications services Down Under as members.

• Oracle pitches safe-data plan

  Oracle has proposed new technology standards to safeguard sensitive data as it flows through corporate software applications. But is that where leaks happen?

• Lenovo to offer recycling rebates in Canada

  Lenovo will begin offering discounts to Canadian customers who recycle their old PCs.

• Deconstructing the spyware face-off

  Until very recently, technology firms have enjoyed the rare ability to get their way on Capitol Hill.

Features and Case Studies (13)

• Is there life in Google's Android?

  Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.

• What does Nokia's Trolltech buy mean for Symbian?

  Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Motorola claim they are confident Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech will leave them unscathed, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary.

• Security in year of 'BUT'

  IT watcher Jon Oltsik says businesses are changing how they think about information security -- and none too soon.

• Old IT never dies...

  Companies are hanging on to their IT equipment longer to stave off spending what they can't currently afford. But IT systems have to be disposed of eventually; what happens when they do?

• Office XP price cuts omit Australia

  Microsoft's recent move to reduce the cost of Microsoft Office XP Professional and Standard editions excludes Australia but this could change in the third quarter.

Reviews (5)

• CRTs: The price of progress

  There are about a million tonnes of glass from old CRT monitors sitting in homes and offices - all set to become waste over the next 10 years.

• New Office locks down documents

  As digital media publishers scramble to devise a foolproof method of copy protection, Microsoft is ready to push digital rights management into a whole new arena--your desktop.

• Office to work with proprietary back-ends

  "Open to new ideas. Plays well with others."

• Penguin-powered iPod? Sort of

  An Australian ex-pat engineer manages to get Apple's portable MP3 player to run basic parts of the uClinux version of the Linux operating system. But it's only a rough start, he says.

• Microsoft boosts enterprise licenses

  Starting Oct. 1, Microsoft will move many of its most popular enterprise packages--including Office--to a new subscription system that could raise the price 33 to 107 percent.

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