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    A privately funded race to land a rover on the moon could cost each team well more than the US$20 million grand prize they're vying for, but all of the contestants view Google's Lunar X Prize as a new engine for business in space.

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    Hewlett-Packard will not rush to embrace the new Ultra Mobile platform which Intel unveiled last month, a senior company executive told ZDNet Australia. Also, the company's confusing mix of product names and model numbers will be streamlined into three core groupings.

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    Microsoft is continuing to push the Tablet PC as the "evolution of computing", and this time, it claims, the product will catch on.

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    IBM says its scientists have made a breakthrough in transistor technology that could someday enable a new class of much smaller and faster computer chips.

  • Transmeta to unveil chip customers

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    In 2005, Canadian wireless company Research in Motion (RIM) came from relative obscurity to steal a global lead in e-mail equipped mobile devices with its BlackBerry. Could 2008 be the year that BlackBerry falls off its perch?

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    Ultraportables don't get much lighter than Sony's 1.2kg TX17. Although diminutive in size, the 11-inch Vaio has a built-in DVD burner, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

  • Tech Guide: Ultralight notebooks for your business

    Expert advice on choosing the perfect business notebook -- from size and weight to the right processor for your needs.

  • Dell Latitude X1

    Executives searching for a very light business notebook could well consider the Latitude X1.

  • Don't carry that weight: 7 ultralight notebooks tested

    If you're out on the road a lot, you want a notebook that won't give you a sore shoulder at the end of the day, but you may not want to give up all the features of a full-sized notebook. Can you have both?

  • And then there was light

    Ultra thin and still ultra fast. For this review we received eight notebooks in total. We also ended up receiving a few notebooks that scraped under 2.5kg which was our limit.

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