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  • iPhone tetherers bypass Optus charge

    Australian iPhone users have started downloading widely available configuration files to activate the device's tethering feature and bypass Optus' planned $10 monthly fee.

  • Is Westpac mulling a new Hogan hero?

    Australia's banking IT sector is currently buzzing with speculation that Westpac is planning to migrate its core banking system to the CSC Hogan platform used by its new subsidiary St George.

  • Conroy filter gag sparks sysadmin rage

    An Australian systems administrators' professional group has criticised Communications Minister Stephen Conroy for alleged attempts by his office to silence a vocal network engineer expressing an opinion about the planned government internet filtering scheme.

  • IBM plays soccer with atoms in chip breakthrough

    IBM has figured out how much force it takes to move atoms, another tiny step in moving microchip technology forward.

  • Cash pass as e-payments take over

    Cash faces stiff competition from electronic payment methods in the coming years as consumers realise the benefits of emerging technologies.

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  • Read the blog post - Liam Tung

    Conroy's filtering plan: security worries

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has welcomed "improvements" in ISP filtering technologies, but will a broad-scale roll-out make ISPs a thief's favourite target?

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    My Channel Ten manifesto

    Hey Channel Ten, I'm sorry I slagged you off last year. So your Web site is pretty cruddy, Yasmin turned out to be the queen of the harpies, and Matthew Newton brought shame to you over the new year. We all make mistakes. But before your site relaunches, might I be so bold as to make some suggestions for what to include?

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Channel Ten catches up

    Now I don't want to call myself a prognosticator -- much less intimate that I had any influence over the following decision -- but in the weeks since I blogged about Channel Ten's lack of an online strategy, things have certainly changed.

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  • Photos: The history of the transistor

    In the 60 years since its invention, the transistor has shrunk from hulking origins to the point where more than six billion can fit in an area the size of a credit card. Follow the history of the transistor from its humble origins in Bell Labs to its possible quantum future.

  • Photos: 10 tech flops -- with cool names

    Have you ever thought that some tech companies occasionally invest more brainpower in naming their products than in making them successful? You're not the only one who thinks so.

  • Celebrating three decades of Apple

    In the 1970s, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were going door-to-door at the UC Berkeley dorms selling "blue boxes" -- electronic devices that tricked the telephone network into allowing free long-distance phone calls.

  • Vista looks to get tablets on write track

    Microsoft tunes Windows Vista to help tablet PCs make better sense of your scribbles and scrawls.

  • Oracle takes on SAP's NetWeaver

    Project Fusion will provide a common basis for all Oracle applications and compete head-to-head with the German rival's NetWeaver middleware.

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  • Chameleon devices

    Converging technology has turned fridges into televisions, and phones into cameras, but just how far will convergence take us?

  • Building the perfect PDA: How I'd do it

    OK, there's no such as the perfect PDA--we all have our own sets of requirements, and no single device could fulfill them all. But here's what I'd like to see in my ideal handheld.

  • Intel readies next handheld chips

    Intel is adding to its arsenal of processors for portable devices by developing an XScale-based processor, code-named Bulverde, for handheld computers.

  • Interfaces of the future

    How long will it be before your computer is able to read your facial expressions? Will a rude gesture become the next Control-Alt-Delete? ZDNet Australia investigates computing interfaces.

  • Meet the Windows XPs

    Now there's a Microsoft's Windows XP flavour for every PC--standard desktops, tablet PCs, and Media Center desktops. We weigh in on their worth.

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