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Red Hat expands Australian presence with new regional HQ
Growth in Linux vendor Red Hat's Asia-Pacific engineering and support business has resulted in a move to new premises. The world's biggest specialist Linux company's Brisbane, Australia, site is now its largest engineering centre in the region.

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Intel showcases turbo low power processors at Developer Forum

by Stephen Withers
Intel is promising PC manufacturers and users a new generation of processors featuring a "turbo mode" that delivers high performance without generating additional heat. The chip maker unveiled plans for the new processor range at its Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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Rural Vic schools get centralised Internet facilities

by Stuart Corner
The Association of Independent Schools of Victoria (AISV) has awarded NetStar Australia a $1.8 million contract to build and operate an ISP aggregation point to serve 92 regional and rural independent schools in Victoria.
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Adobe Flash fingered in malware clipboard trickery

by Stephen Withers
Malicious Flash content appearing on otherwise legitimate sites may be to blame for sending users to malware-laden web pages.
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Microsoft eases datacentre software virtualisation rules

by Stephen Withers
Microsoft has relaxed its licensing restrictions on datacentre software to allow for the growing use of virtualisation. Significantly, Microsoft has chosen to drop its previous 90-day reassignment rule, allowing server software to be moved around a server farm as often as necessary. The change is especially significant for customers running virtualised environments.
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EA withdraw Take-Two offer, good for gaming

by Mike Bantick
Electronic Arts make some marvellous games, bending their might to yearly editions of many a sports simulation. They have also been responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest franchises in gaming history, and next month Spore hits the EA Stable. So why is the (now withdrawn) EA push to take over Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two so bad?
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Google pours nearly $11 million into geothermal power

by Stephen Withers
Google has continued its investments in alternative energy sources by injecting nearly $US11 million into enhanced geothermal systems.
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Nuance to buy SNAPin and transform customer service via cellphones

by Stuart Corner
Speech recognitions specialist, Nuance Communications, has announced its intent to acquire - for $US180m in shares - privately-held SNAPin, a provider of mobile device and server self-service technology, claiming that that the combination of its and SNAPin's technologies will "transform the way mobile operators and enterprises interact with consumers in real-time on mobile devices."
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Apple's MobileMe status blog folds after four posts

by Stephen Withers
Apple CEO Steve Jobs initiated a blog-style MobileMe status report following a disastrous launch weekend for the new service. But the reports have been scrapped after four posts in just over three weeks.
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"Feature expansion" of hi-tech products sparks EU-US trade dispute

by Stuart Corner
The European Union is at loggerheads with leading hi-tech exporting countries - The US, Japan and Taiwan - for applying import tariffs to goods that were previously tariff free, on the grounds that new features have expanded the functionality of these products.
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Ares 1 rocket vibrations to be quelled with weights and shock absorbers

by William Atkins
NASA announced on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 that it has worked out a solution to the excessive-vibration problem in its yet-to-be developed Ares 1 launch vehicle.
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Google slays Yahoo!, tops for search satisfaction

by Stephen Withers
Google is the most popular search engine by a mile. In a market where loyalties can change in an instant, it should come as no surprise that the company is way out in front on customer satisfaction too. Meanwhile nearest rival Yahoo! is stuck in an increasingly distant second place.
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Apple streaks ahead of competitors in customer satisfaction

by Stephen Withers
A new survey of US consumers shows Apple dominates the PC industry when it comes to customer satisfaction. But would the results be the same if the recent iPhone 3G and MobileMe woes were included?
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Google says: Hack the Android!

by Davey Winder
Google has released the 0.9 SDK Beta and admits that its ambitious project to produce the first complete, open, and free mobile platform is "converging on a final Android 1.0" release. It has also taken the bold step of posting an open letter to the security community which, in effect, invites them to hack the Android...
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Bad sleep for teens raises risk of high blood pressure

by William Atkins
A U.S. research study has shown that adolescents who do not sleep enough and/or have poor quality sleep may be at increased risk for elevated blood pressure (what is called pre-hypertension) and, consequently, as adults may increase their risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) and other related medical problems.
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An Inconvenient Truth: Spam Sells Lots of Sex and Drugs

by Davey Winder
It is the question that everyone who stops to think about the amount of spam they get asks at least once: does anyone actually buy this stuff? The answer, it seems, is that 29 percent of us do and we are buying sex and drugs...
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Is that a hot iPod in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

by Davey Winder
Two iPod related news stories stopped and made us think today. First there are Japanese trousers catching fire as iPod batteries allegedly overheat. Then there is the murder involving Indian iPod porn...
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Vodafone screws users over call costs, senior executive stabbed to death

by Davey Winder
Mobile phone network operators are pretty much like banks, for all the wrong reasons. Not least that if they are found to be indulging in rip-off charging scams and are forced to stop it by regulators they find another way to claw the money back. Which explains why Vodafone is screwing extra money out of its contract and pay-as-you-go customers as from next month...
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Researchers split water with sunlight for cheaper renewable energy

by William Atkins
The process of photosynthesis that goes on in nature all of the time has been copied artificially by an Australian-American team of scientists. The new process that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen could some day make it much less expensive to produce hydrogen as a renewable energy source.
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