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  • Toshiba unveils speedy 512GB SSD

    Toshiba has unveiled a 512GB solid state drive (SSD) which it claims breaks both speed and size records in the notebook SSD market.

  • Novell: 81% boost in Linux revenues

    The company saw a 33 per cent growth in its Linux business over the fourth quarter of last year, while its services business plunged by 26 per cent.

  • Facebook in $500m Twitter bid: report

    Facebook recently made a US$500 million offer to buy micro-blogging site Twitter, according to a Wall St Journal website.

  • Qld education progresses PC project

    Queensland's Department of Education, Training and the Arts has revealed it is most of the way through one of Australia's largest roll-outs of a standard desktop PC and server operating environments, including a standardised Apple Mac installation.

  • RIM's first clamshell BlackBerry

    Research in Motion has unveiled its first, long-awaited BlackBerry smartphone in a clamshell format.

  • Defence cuts $268m IBM stealth deal

    Just weeks before the Gershon review of the government's $6 billion IT spending was delivered, the Department of Defence has quietly inked a massive five-year deal with IBM worth $268 million.

  • Microsoft extends Novell pact

    Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems.

  • Optus outage; as CFO promoted

    Optus customers in Sydney and Melbourne today had problems accessing their 3G wireless broadband services as another outage dogged the carrier.

  • 3 launches iPhone support

    Three has launched a 3G SIM and data starter kit for those who want to get their iPhone from other carriers but use it on the 3 Network.

  • PlayStation 3 site hacked, 2.40 upgrade suspended

    Sony has suspended its PlayStation 2.40 firmware upgrade following reports it has fouled up some users' systems Sony has also removed hacked pages on its Playstation web site.

  • .NSW, .Uluru, .Oz, .footy domains coming in 2009?

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said.

  • Inside the Top500 supercomputers

    Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.

  • The sky goes digital from 1 June

    The paper airline ticket comes to the end of its life on Sunday, 1 June, when 240 carriers belonging to the world association IATA switch to all electronic ticketing, much of it through internet booking.

  • Pipe dreams of high-speed Australia-NZ cable link

    New Zealanders may soon score a new high-speed cable link to Sydney boasting 240Gbps international capacity, after Pipe Networks announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiwi telco Kordia.

  • HP to acquire Canberra-based Tower Software

    HP has entered into a pre-bid agreement to acquire Australian document management software company Tower Software for AU$3.39 per share.

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