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  • HP considers own Linux-based OS

    Hewlett Packard is reportedly considering building an alternative operating system to Microsoft Windows, based on Linux.

  • RIM's first clamshell BlackBerry

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

  • Microsoft attacks potential VMWare feature

    Senior Microsoft security strategist Steve Riley last week criticised virtualisation rival VMWare for an idea that could see virtualised operating system images patched while they were still running in memory.

  • CommBank rolls out Office 2007

    The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has completed a deployment of Microsoft's new Office 2007 suite to 38,000 desktops a year after giving Google Apps the thumbs down.

  • Google's math == FAIL!

    Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number.

  • UK prisoner data goes missing

    Unencrypted data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales has gone missing after a Home Office contractor lost a USB stick on which it had been stored.

  • National broadband data: who's late

    Today is the deadline for Australian telcos to hand over information on their networks so that the federal government can use it in its process to build a $4.7 billion national broadband network. ZDNet.com.au investigated who's on time and who's late.

  • Microsoft extends Novell pact

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

  • Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

    A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system.

  • Date set for Firefox 3.1 beta

    Developers working on the next version of Firefox aim to release a beta or test version to the public in August.

  • 'Cuil' search takes on Google

    A bunch of ex-Google staff have launched a new search engine, claiming to have indexed more of the internet than the US-based search giant.

  • Northern Territory, Tasmania slam Telstra's prices

    The Northern Territory government has bitterly complained about a lack of competition in the telecommunications market that it claims has led to it paying Telstra three to five times more for some communications services than the rest of the nation.

  • Seagate announces 500GB notebook drive

    Seagate last week unveiled a 500GB 2.5-inch notebook drive as well as a 1.5TB desktop hard drive, claiming industry firsts for both.

  • Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'

    Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster.

  • Adobe's PDF becomes ISO standard

    Adobe Systems' popular portable document format (PDF) has become the latest International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standard.

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