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• Hiccups for Tassie schools' ICT merger

  Tasmania's plan to combine its year 11 and 12 colleges with its TAFEs to form a new statewide system with shared ICT services has run into teething issues.

• Are you doomed to a life of desk-bound misery?

  Although the number of mobile workers is supposed to reach one billion by 2011, some workers will always be confined to the office environment, according to analyst firm IBRS.

• Power your electronic device with paper?

  A team of American scientists have developed a flexible, paper battery which could power electronic devices in the future.

• Microsoft gains tech computing toehold

  Microsoft is showing some early signs of success with a version of Windows geared for a technical computing market that Linux dominates today.

• Cheap Wi-Fi networks down under

  If you listened to all the spin over the past year you could have been forgiven for predicting the eventual death of the humble Wi-Fi hotspot.

Features and Case Studies (5)

• Securing Microsoft: From the Blaster worm to Blue Hat

  From Blaster Worm to Blue Hat, we bring you a complete retrospective on the evolution of Microsoft's security strategy over the last decade. Step onboard as we chart the triumphs and tragedies as the Microsoft engineers battled the tides of internet hackers, transforming them from adversaries to unlikely allies.

• Photos: Solar racers gain speed Down Under

  Teams from around the world were on the move across Australia this past week to show what a homemade car and some solar panels can do.

• Schooled in security

  Universities are looking for ways to protect networks while maintaining a free flow of data and ideas -- an idea businesses could learn from.

• Cleaning spam from swapping networks

  Researchers think computers that "gossip" with each other are key to filtering out ads -- and piracy-fighting decoys -- on P2P networks.

• Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact

  The world of massive computing power used to belong solely to the big players -- but thanks to Linux clustering, smaller firms are now getting in on the act.

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