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  • Australians miss out on Seagate kilobyte refunds

    Although a discrepancy between the traditional and modern definitions of kilobyte has led to Seagate Technology offering a rebate on their hard drives, a Seagate representative has confirmed that Australians will not be eligible for the refund.

  • Seagate to pay refund over gigabyte definition

    Seagate Technology, the world's largest hard-drive maker, is offering customers a five percent refund on drives bought during the last six years following a lawsuit over the definition of a "gigabyte". As an alternative, customers can choose to receive free backup software.

  • Laser printers as dangerous as passive smoking?

    Emissions from office laser printers can be as unhealthy as cigarette smoke, according to an Australian professor who is now calling for regulations to limit printer emissions.

  • Microsoft-Novell pact doesn't dent Red Hat growth

    Red Hat is still the flavour of the month in the Linux market, despite Novell making some inroads after its controversial alliance with Microsoft.

  • Vulnerability-auction site claims to help security

    Responsible disclosure may become a thing of the past as an auction site, which sells zero-day vulnerabilities to the highest bidder, begins trading.

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    Despite combining the heritage of Mandrakesoft and Connectiva, Mandriva is usually considered a second-tier Linux distribution. Nevertheless, the latest version, Mandriva Linux 2006, is well packaged and includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

  • Desktop Linux for small businesses

    Is your business ready to take the open-source plunge? We test five leading desktop Linux distributions and come up with one winner.

  • Is the iSeries make-over enough?

    IBM's iSeries servers have had the biggest announcement since the line was launched. But will users stick with it now it is cheaper and more Linux-friendly?

  • 3G is dead, claims mobile phone inventor

    The bandwidth and business model for 3G is not there according to Marty Cooper -- the man credited with inventing the mobile phone.

  • iSeries rises to conflicting demands

    IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.

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