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Photos: The tools of a digital forensics expert

Ever wondered how to catch the world's most high tech criminals? This photo gallery gives you a tour of the tools used in digital forensics. Read more »

The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher

Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network one thousand times faster than home broadband. Read more »

Photos: Army technology makes killing more efficient

Every year, the US Army designates a set of its top inventions. This year's list includes a GPS-guided artillery shell and a new method for saving severely injured soldiers. Read more »

Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records. Read more »

Photos: Synchrotron – Australia's particle accelerator

How many Australian scientists does it take to make the countries' biggest light bulb? Our photo gallery takes you inside the Synchrotron, Australia's only particle accelerator that creates high-intensity light for scientific imaging. Read more »

IBM alphaWorks: From software theory to fact

Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles. Read more »

Thin client phone becomes 'Pocket Supercomputer'

Accenture researchers have been showing off a thin client system, which can recognise objects such as books, pictures and foodstuffs videoed on a mobile phone -- delivering relevant information straight to into your hand. Read more »

Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop

Veteran developer Marc Canter warns industry politics could stymie push to give social network users more control over data. Read more »

Befriend APML -- the new markup for social profiles

What began as a discussion two years ago during a power blackout has led to Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML), which is an attempt to create a standardised and open format for consumers to store information about their interests and preferences. Read more »

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Software development to become an automated commodity

Into the future, code generation will become more and more entrenched as software development is further automated. Read more »

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  • Staff Opera's new SDK: Better browsing on the Wii?

    Opera has thrown a little more love at device developers by announcing an updated version of its software development kit on Wednesday at CES. Read more »

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  • Staff 2008: Time to call stumps

    It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »

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  • Staff Unlocking Android

    In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »

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