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Unfazed, IBM pumps Power chip program
Fresh after getting publicly dumped by Apple Computer, IBM is taking new measures to spread its Power processors and make them a stronger competitor to Intel chips. Read more »
Telstra's June iPhone launch points to 3G
Telstra will be the third Australian mobile provider to sell the iPhone in Australia, fuelling speculation of the imminent launch of a 3G iPhone. Read more »
Intel drops 3G from Centrino
Intel has confirmed that it has pulled the plug on all plans to add 3G to its Centrino notebook platform. From now on, says the chipmaker, it's WiMAX all the way. Read more »
Regional users: Don't bother with the iPhone
The new iPhone won't offer 3G speeds outside of the major cities. Read more »
Vodafone Australia to launch 3G in October
Vodafone today announced its third-generation (3G) network would be commercially launched in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra this October with other capital cities to follow in 2006. Read more »
Wozniak 'disappointed' by Apple iPhone
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has today hit out at smartphones, accusing device manufacturers of putting technology before people -- and revealed that he's disappointed by Apple's decision to launch the iPhone without 3G. Read more »
Vodafone Australia claims iPhone coup
Vodafone Australia has announced that it will be selling the iPhone in Australia later this year. Read more »
Oracle tried to buy open-source MySQL
Oracle tried to acquire open-source database maker MySQL, an indication of the profound changes the software giant is willing to make as it adapts to the increasingly significant collaborative programming philosophy. Read more »
Global shortage flags 3G iPhone is near
Widespread iPhone shortages, combined with an explosion in carrier deals, point to the launch of the next-generation iPhone as right around the corner, according to US technology investment firm, Piper Jaffray. Read more »
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business. Read more »
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New Oracle10g SQL optimizer hints
With the introduction of Oracle 10g, there are many new optimizer hints available to control optimizer behavior. Take a quick tour of these powerful new hints. Read more »
Bluesocket Wireless Gateway: Wireless security savior?
The words "wireless" and "security" usually don't fit into a sentence without a wry chuckle added in there. A new generation of wireless security devices aims to change that perception. Read more »
Nokia Mobile Internet Toolkit
MMS based services are expected to provide huge opportunity for developers and operators with the availability of 3G mobile wireless networks. Read more about the Nokia 3.1 toolkit in this article. Read more »
Blog (2)
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
-- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
Introducing the new "nerd whistle"
-- Certainly the iPhone 3G has changed a lot about how we think of our mobile devices, but I guess I never thought we would discover the ultimate geek magnet -- the nerd whistle of all App Store apps -- the Phonesaber. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Adobe briefly considered its own browserInternet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Browser wars: who's the fastest?
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ZDNet.com.au chases Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer around Sydney during his recent visit Down Under.
