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Wednesday, 20th February 2008

Latest headlines

HD DVD refunds exit alongside the doomed format

Australian consumers who purchased now moribund Toshiba HD DVD players will receive no form of refund after the company officially announced its exit from the high definition format war. ... Read More >>

	Fortinet and Riverbed join forces for WAN optimisation
	Nigerian lottery scammers piggybacked neighbour's Wi-Fi: arrested
	Mega spammer arrested in Japan for sending 2.2 billion emails
	Microsoft's Fast Search and Transfer lays out product roadmap
	IM tools tailored for enterprises
	RES releases free version of PowerFuse
	Unisys launches major services push
	BBC says over 17 mln programmes watched on iPlayer

Most read articles

Software
Microsoft giving away dev tools to uni students for free
Microsoft has unveiled a worldwide software giveaway aimed at arming uni students with the latest designer and developer tools for free.

Internet
Undersea cables 'cut by saboteurs'
A United Nations official has warned that some of the recent internet outages affecting the Middle East may have been the work of saboteurs..

Hardware
Self-destruct laptops foil thieves
UK firm Virtuity has come up with a 'self-destruct' technology based on Wi-Fi and radio frequency ID tags that kicks into action when a laptop is moved from its designated space..

Business
It's official, Toshiba quits HD DVD, ending format war
Toshiba said on Tuesday it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp.

Software
Microsoft on IE8: we won’t break the Web
No matter what you think about IE, you’ve got to feel sorry for the developers preparing the new IE8.

Events

Event Name	Location	Date
Navigate the Unified Communications Jungle Roadshow: Melbourne	Crown Convention Centre	26/02/2008
CeBIT Australia 2008	Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour	20/05/2008
Make Business Sense out Of Green IT	Sydney Convention Centre	14/05/2008
Amazon Web Services presentation by Mike Culver	Melbourne - register for location	25/02/2008
Windows Server 2008 Seminars	All states	05/02/2008

Products

Solaris 10 OS

Solaris 10 OS ... read more »

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