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• Apple, Dell wind down battery recall efforts

  Apple and Dell have managed to track down and replace the vast majority of their potentially "exploding" batteries, which has allowed airlines to lift the restrictions placed on the use of notebooks in-flight.

• Locked up and fancy free

  Would you buy a laptop locked to Vodafone's network, or would you prefer to wait for a more open solution?

• Aussie PC market defies world trend

  The Australian PC market is picking up, with an analyst report showing a year-on-year growth of 14 percent for the second quarter of 2002.

• Australia buying fewer, more expensive servers

  The number of servers shipped to the Asia Pacific region has increased by 10 percent, but shipments to Australia have taken a 7.9 percent dive.

• Green IT will hit Australian govt 'like a ton of bricks'

  Australia's federal government is lagging behind when it comes to green IT initiatives and needs to be more critical of vendor "recycling" claims, says analysts.

• Sun's Unix market position slips

  IBM and HP may have narrowly edged past long-time leader Sun in the worldwide market for Unix servers -- but it depends on who you listen to.

• Gartner: Consolidation to put squeeze on businesses

  As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution and hang onto their existing equipment as long as possible, Gartner advises

• Acer merges with Gateway, leapfrogs Lenovo

  Acer needs help getting ahead, and Gateway needs help keeping up. Both hope a merger will do the trick -- and put them ahead of rival Lenovo in the process.

• Michael Dell takes direct model into emerging markets

  Dell Chairman Michael Dell says the fastest-growing markets for the company are outside the U.S. and that the infrastructure exists in those countries for Dell to sell direct to its customers.

• IBM extends its server lead

  IBM bolstered its first-place ranking in a worldwide server market that shrank three percent in the most recent quarter, according to new research.

• Asia-Pac posts mild server growth: Gartner

  Asia-Pacific server revenue in the second quarter saw only moderate growth of eight percent compared with the same period last year, with sales hit by SARS and weak economies in developed countries.

• Between church and state

  Gartner's impartiality is questioned after revelations that Bill Gates, Larry Ellison and Michael Dell, among others, owns shares in the research firm.

• Sydney Water skips Vista

  Sydney Water CIO Tim Catley today said the organisation would likely skip Vista and instead plan ahead to install Windows 7 on the organisation's 4,000 desktops, which are currently running Windows XP.

• Gartner: Onward, IT

  Tech execs gather to hear Gartner analysts spread the word on IT's top agenda items in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Topping the list: business continuity.

• Aust PC market records solid growth: Gartner

  Australian PC shipments rose 9.5 percent year-on-year in 2002 as the market showed clear indications of recovery towards the end of the year, according to a leading analyst group.

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