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| Wednesday June 11, 2008 |
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| Mene, mene, tekel, iPhone: What the finger hath wrought |
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| Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs. |
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Tags: apple, full duplex, iphone, optus, telstra, vodafone, mobile, 3g
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| Suncorp envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 desktops |
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| Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP. |
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Tags: applications, microsoft, security, open source, suncorp, windows, windows 2000, xp
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| OLPC's Bitfrost: Privacy disaster, or security haven? |
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| Faced with a young, tech-inexperienced user base, the One Laptop Per Child foundation set out to build an easy to use security system, Bitfrost — but did it create a privacy threat that tracks users' identity instead? |
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Tags: olpc, usenix, conference, theft, mdash, activate, shut, paper
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| Aussie battlers want tech, not candlelit dinners |
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| Although Aussies might be going without in other areas, they aren't willing to skimp on technology, according to the head of JB Hi-Fi |
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Tags: jb hi-fi, forecast, profit, spend, consumer, electronics, aussie, million
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| JobWatch: Soft-skills win out in conflicting markets |
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| After months in the doldrums, internet IT job ads took an upward turn in May, growing by 1.6 per cent, a whisker ahead of the overall internet job ads. |
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Tags: jobwatch, olivier, recruitment, it industry, it, hays, peoplebank, jobs
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News: Microsoft concocts 2010 Vista-based embedded OS |
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| A Vista-based successor to Microsoft's Windows XP-based Embedded system, used for retail and gaming systems, will include features such as disk encryption and anti-malware -- but its core will be seven times larger. |
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News: Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone 3G |
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| Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the second generation iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference and details some of the improvements over the original iPhone. |
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Preview: Apple iPhone 3G (16GB) |
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| Though there are still some big features missing from the iPhone, the addition of 3G and GPS, the affordable price tag, and extra features from the iPhone 2.0 software update make the handset a worthy prospect. |
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Photo Gallery: Apple unveils iPhone 3G at WWDC 2008 |
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| Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces a new version of Apple's popular iPhone Monday at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. New features include a faster 3G Internet connection, GPS and new apps. |
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Review: i-mate JAMA 201 |
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| The JAMA 201 does represent a challenge to the smartphone market in that it brings an unlocked Windows Mobile 6 platform to market for only $489. It's just that in doing so, it makes so many compromises, and strips so much out of what we'd want from a real smartphone along the way as to render itself functionally redundant. |
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