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  • San Francisco admin hijacks city network

    A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out.

  • SA govt to rig buses for free internet

    The South Australian Government is planning to offer free internet on the state's public transport system to make it more appealing to use — but it needs to find a vendor willing to install the technology first.

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    It seemed like a good idea at the time

    Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    How smart is the iPhone?

    Like most people with a pulse in their wrist and a love of tech in their hearts, I saw the Macworld keynote the other day. I know it's not going to win me any friends but does anyone else think Steve Jobs mightn't be so good on numbers?

  • Read the blog post - Jo Best

    Free Wi-Fi: Where's the Fon in that?

    There's no such thing as a free lunch, so the old adage goes -- but is there such a thing as free Wi-Fi? Wi-Fi sharing company Fon thinks it has the answer, as does Google-backed start-up Meraki.

  • Taking datacentres on the road

    Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.

  • Read the blog post - Angus Kidman

    Are all Web applications worthy of praise?

    Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.

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    Watch robots fight, drive the Autobahn without going to Germany and use the Internet to predict the future. San Francisco, Germany and France check in on this episode of Planet CNET.

  • eBay shows off auction app for iPhone

    At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Ken Sun of eBay shows off Auctions on the iPhone. The new app has a basic front door with options to track auctions you've bid on, and see whether you've been outbid.

  • Apple MobileMe = Exchange?

    Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Apple, unveils MobileMe, the company's new cloud computing service, at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The new service will connect all of your devices and push information up and down to keep everything up to date.

  • Jobs unveils GPS for the 3G iPhone

    At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone travelling in a car going down San Francisco's famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves.

  • A gaggle of Google I/O predictions

    CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Stephen Shankland discuss the upcoming Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Could a second mobile SDK be released? Or maybe the winner of the Android developer contest?

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    Mobile professionals who need a powerful but sleek messaging-centric smartphone will be well-served by the Nokia E71; just be prepared to pay a price.

  • Apple iPhone

    Despite some flaws, the Apple iPhone sets a new benchmark for an integrated phone and MP3 player.

  • Intel reclaims spot in Sun servers

    Sun Microsystems announced Monday that it will resume selling servers with Intel's Xeon processor, restoring a hardware partnership and extending it to software collaboration.

  • Apple iPhone

    We take an early look at the long-awaited iPhone -- a beguiling combination of touchscreen iPod, mini tablet and quad-band smartphone.

  • Apple iPhone pros and cons

    Only two iPhones were on public display at Macworld but CNET.com.au's Jeremy Roche managed to get hold of one. Here's his verdict.

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