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  • ING beefs up tech team

    ING Australia has dipped into its New Zealand operations to find its new head of technology services, Rod Greenaway.

  • OpenBSD devs respond to Torvalds' monkey jibe

    OpenBSD developers have responded to comments made by Linus Torvalds that they are a "bunch of masturbating monkeys".

  • Queensland to give state CIO more powers

    The Queensland government intends to beef up the powers of its state chief information officer role, to ensure the candidate has enough power to effectively deal with individual departments and agencies.

  • Ultra-low power chip sleeps a lot

    Researchers at the University of Michigan have designed chips that use 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 per cent less in active mode than comparable processors, putting an end to overweight battery syndrome.

  • Rio Tinto spends $371m on unmanned trains

    Rio Tinto is spending US$371 million on automating its iron ore railway over 1,300km worth of track in WA's Pilbara, in a move that will herald the advent of driverless trains.

  • Australia stands back as WiMax conquers Asia Pac

    WiMax is forecast to take off in the Asia Pacific region, reaching 43 million subscribers and estimated revenues of US$11 billion by the end of 2013 but Australia will not be featuring heavily in the mass adoption.

  • Telecom NZ has new cannon fodder for separation

    Telecom NZ has beefed up its management team, importing experts from the other side of the world to help tackle its arduous task of operational separation.

  • Apple to boost music content for iPhone

    Apple is in talks with the largest record companies as it attempts to boost the iPhone's offering of ringtones and other musical content, according to a report in The New York Times.

  • Microsoft makes Yahoo a new offer

    Microsoft announced on Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for a transaction with the company but would not involve the acquisition of all of its assets.

  • Bill Gates: We're not looking for another Yahoo

    With its multibillion-dollar Yahoo merger bid yanked from the table, the Microsoft chairman said at a Tokyo press conference on Wednesday that the software giant has no immediate plans to jump on another deal.

  • Will Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo backfire?

    Microsoft's US$44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo could backfire if not executed properly, according to analysts -- but the phenomenal price may be worth paying to fend off the challenge from Google.

  • BlackBerry gets native Office document editing

    RIM has announced a series of updates to the BlackBerry platform, including the ability to edit Microsoft Office documents without the need for a third-party application.

  • 3.5G gives mobile broadband a leg-up

    3.5G is driving mobile broadband growth around the globe, with a rapid increase in the number of commercial HSDPA networks being rolled out.

  • Vista stumbles through first birthday

    One year after Microsoft officially launched its Vista operating system for business, it's fair to say that it hasn't been a smooth ride for the software giant.

  • Oracle beefs up PHP driver

    Oracle announced on Wednesday the enhancement and preview release of an upgraded Oracle Call Interface (OCI8) driver for PHP.

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