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• Toshiba Satellite M30 series

  If you're looking for style, the Satellite M30 series is worth a gander; otherwise, hold out for better thin-and-light notebooks.

• Don't take it personal

  Personalisation has become an accepted part of technological interaction, but what does the future hold?

• Japan gets to work on 4G comms

  Japan is the home of hi-tech, but unfortunately most if it is incompatible with international standards. But things are changing, starting with 4G mobile phones.

• Lindows CEO funds Xbox hacking contest

  Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of US$200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.

• Linux tapped to be audiovisual aid

  Audiovisual gear for the home, such as digital video recorders, from Sony and other manufacturers could soon have a new version of Linux inside.

• 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.

• Motherboard design to reshape PCs

  Got a burning desire to build a PC out of a gas can? Here's your chance.

• Antenna to boost wireless security

  An optical antenna that uses a geometrically shaped lens promises to bring greater security to wireless networks for businesses, according to British scientists.

• Intel's "Banias" to have huge cache

  The chip giant's new mobile processor, due next year, will include a 1MB secondary cache. That's twice as big as the cache found on the Pentium 4.

• The incredible shrinking computer

  From room-sized mainframes to handheld PDAs, computers are getting, smaller, smaller, and smaller. Storage, both hard disk and memory, are doing the same.

• Practical nanotechnology

  Nanotechnology is constantly finding itself in the headlines. But are microscopic machines an inevitable part of our future, or just another hype-heavy get-rich-quick ruse?

• Microsoft gives more power to the small

  Microsoft is putting a little more .Net in its Windows CE .Net.

• Burning with gas: Sony's new CD-R

  Sony Australia announces a new range of recordable compact discs and CD-R drives, built to burn at previously impossible speeds.

• The great PDA debate begins: editorial

  Finding himself at the centre of a heated debate on PDA reliability, David Berlind responds to critics who contest his view that the handheld is not ready for mission critical tasks.

• RIP: The Map

  Maps have been helping people find their way at least since 2300 B.C., when Babylonians sketched the lay of the land on clay tablets. Today's paper maps might be more portable, but they're far less necessary, thanks to Global Positioning System technology and the Web.

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