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Thursday, 31st January 2008

BREAKING NEWS

Hardware vendors will follow the money to open source

The success of consumer IT products like the ASUS Eee PC will help provide the leverage needed to get hardware vendors on board with open source, according to Dirk Hohndel, Intel’s chief technologist for open source. ... Read More >>

	In open source, money doesn't always talk
	Lenovo sales up 15 percent, sells mobile phone division for $100M
	Calls grow for femtocell standardisation
	Mobile phone reads text to the blind
	ACS elects Kim Denham as new CEO
	Europe rules on pirates' privacy
	Sharp claims world's thinnest LCD TV
	UK lags behind in Firefox take-up
	CCTV sound recording under attack
	US researchers perfect gecko-style glue
	Boffins use GPS to test kids' navigation skills

MOST READ ARTICLES

Networking
EU court says file sharers don't have to be named
European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU's top court said but rights holders said it still left open the door to fighting digital piracy.

Business
Engin suffers $6.7 million loss during ‘07
Things aren’t looking good for Australian VoIP vendor Engin. According to the company’s audited draft financial statement for the half year ending December 2007, Engin showed a loss of $6.7 million dollars.

Business
Commander in debt; cuts staff, sells non-core businesses
IT voice and data integrator, Commander Communications will cut 600 staff members in a bid to ensure costs savings and return profitability to the company.

Operating Systems
Software tool strips Windows Vista to bare bones
A free software tool that promises to strip down the Windows Vista operating system -- which even some Microsoft officials have called "bloated" -- to a minimalist state is attracting big interest on the Internet..

Security
Information is our only security weapon: Bruce Schneier
Computer security expert Bruce Schneier took a swipe at a number of sacred cows of security including RFID tags, national ID cards and public CCTV security cameras in his keynote address to Linux.conf.au this morning.

Events

Event Name	Location	Date
Amazon Web Services presentation by Mike Culver	Melbourne - register for location	25/02/2008
Windows Server 2008 Seminars	All states	05/02/2008
Gartner Business Intelligence & Information Management Summit	Sydney Convention Centre	18/03/2008
Broadband for Australia: How, Why and When	Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, Level 1, 280 Pitt Street Sydney	25/02/2008
Fred Schebesta’s Online Traffic Formula Seminar	Level 3, 4-16 Yurong St, East Sydney, 2010	28/02/2008

Products

Solaris 10 OS

Solaris 10 OS ... read more »

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