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• Mars Rover laser tech to boost Aussie mining

  An instrument developed for analysing minerals on Mars may be used on earth to help the Australian resources industry.

• Google lunar challenge gets under way

  A privately funded race to land a rover on the moon could cost each team well more than the US$20 million grand prize they're vying for, but all of the contestants view Google's Lunar X Prize as a new engine for business in space.

• 2007: How was it for Google?

  ZDNet Australia searches through the year that was for Google.

• Google stumps up US$30m for moon robot prize

  Google has announced it has sponsored the Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon with a purse of US$30 million.

• Vint Cerf muses about Google role, broadband

  In his upcoming role as Google's chief Internet evangelist, Vint Cerf says he'll act as a 'bumblebee,' transporting ideas among the company's worldwide laboratories.

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• Gosling looks down Sun's open road

  James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop.

• How CRM saved Hunter Holden

  What a customer wants and eventually gets can be two different things. To get more in tune with customer preferences, Hunter Holden reinvented itself with a customer relationship management system.

• Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

  special report The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer.

• Open source Visionary: Business not spooked by Linux

  Linux expert claims the open-source community will not make the mistakes of the Unix world.

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• Out-of-this-world apps for the space tourist

  If your thoughts are pointing skyward, whether because of the recent landing on Mars or a more general interest in outer space, here's three apps that'll feed your imagination.

• Microsoft tweaks its browser

  Unlike the last update of archrival Netscape's browser package, which represented a major redesign, the Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Public Preview makes less than earth-shattering changes. That said, Microsoft did enhance the Search Companion, tweak error reporting and integrate additional online privacy information.

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