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• Whitehall IT to be carbon neutral by 2020

  The UK government has announced plans to make its computer systems wholly carbon-neutral by 2020 by adopting various green IT strategies, including automatically powering down PCs, configuring virtual servers and selective deployments of thin client technology.

• BT rolls out fibre to 10m UK homes

  British Telecom on Tueday in the UK announced plans to roll out fibre connectivity to millions of UK homes, in an initiative worth 1.5bn.

• Photos: Annoying hardware, a rogues' gallery

  Hardware may be less 'in your face' than software, but it can still ruin your day. We've listed our main bugbears: let us know if you agree.

• Four UK men accused of AU$475m bank heist

  Four British men -- including a man believed to be a lord -- have been accused of trying to steal around AU$475.47 million by hacking into a Japanese bank's computer system, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca) said over the weekend.

• Number plate cameras signal auto peep show

  CrimTrac, the federal government's criminal information and intelligence agency will be taking the initial steps towards developing a national automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) system for to capture the vehicle details of suspects and citizens alike.

• Australia slides into surveillance society

  According to a new international privacy report, governments around the world are increasingly invading the privacy of citizens with surveillance, identification systems and archiving of private data -- and Australia is no exception.

• Skype reassures users after SkypeIn number debacle

  Skype has sought to reassure its business customers that they can trust it in the future, despite the withdrawal of thousands of central London numbers from its SkypeIn users.

• UK researchers fine-tune picture passwords

  Researchers at England's Newcastle University have developed graphical passwords for mobile devices, and hope to expand the uses of the software.

• End of the affair: IBA and iSoft finally united

  The saga of IBA Health's acquisition of iSoft is has now been concluded, following the completion of legal manoeuvres which allow the takeover to go ahead.

• UNE selects vendors for network overhaul

  The University of New England has chosen NEC as the key vendor in its new campus network rollout.

• Intel squares up to ARM in mobile market?

  Intel could not have signalled its target for the next five years any more clearly than it did at last week's Intel Developer Forum. It wants to make gains in mobile phones, where competition is stiffer.

• British remain tight-lipped on OOXML vote

  The British Standards Institution has sent its response to the International Organization for Standardization on the subject of whether Microsoft Office Open XML should be certified with the ISO, but has refused to say whether it voted "yes", "no", or "abstain".

• IBA wins iSoft in shareholder landslide

  Shareholders in the beleaguered UK-based health systems provider iSoft have thrown their support behind Aussie raider IBA Health, almost unanimously accepting its AU$333 million lifeline.

• IBM's Blue Gene passes petaflop milestone

  IBM claims that its new Blue Gene/P supercomputer, operating at petaflop speed performs more operations than a 1.5-mile-high stack of laptops.

• Foreign firm given leg up in broadband rollout: Telstra

  Telstra has criticised the federal government for handing over taxpayers' money to a foreign-owned rival with unproven broadband technology to supply rural Australia with high-speed Internet access.

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