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Massive quantum network unveiled

The world's largest quantum-encrypted network has been unveiled in Vienna, providing a glimpse of how data could be transmitted securely in the future. Read more »

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Net neutrality is an 'American problem'

The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem — and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma. Read more »

Is Microsoft a threat to VMware?

The talk of this year's VMworld conference in Las Vegas was how much of a competitive threat Microsoft, which weeks earlier announced the free release of its hypervisor product, will prove to virtualisation leader VMware. Read more »

San Francisco admin hijacks city network

A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out. Read more »

Sydney Uni "hero" chip breaks light speed record

A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all. Read more »

IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips

Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »

AARNet: Aussie innovation demands bandwidth

Without more investment in high-speed fibre broadband, Australia's competitiveness will suffer, according to academic Internet service provider Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet). Read more »

Pipe dreams of high-speed Australia-NZ cable link

New Zealanders may soon score a new high-speed cable link to Sydney boasting 240Gbps international capacity, after Pipe Networks announced today it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Kiwi telco Kordia. Read more »

WA's Perth to be the Aussie Silicon Valley?

Western Australia is to sport Australia's own Silicon Valley, according to state Industry and Enterprise Minister Francis Logan, who yesterday revealed the country's biggest technology park will be based in Perth. Read more »

1Gbps 'superbroadband' helps unis research

The University of Melbourne has combined high resolution screens with a "superbroadband" connection to help it share research across the globe. Read more »

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Windows Server 2008 iSCSI multiple connected session modes

For administrators using Windows Server 2008's iSCSI initiator, selecting the right connection policy is critical. This article explains the options for the ease-of-entry storage protocol. Read more »

Using Storage Explorer in Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 offers a tool to view configuration and resources for systems connected to a storage area network (SAN). Here is what you need to know about this new feature. 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 »

Five new developments in storage infrastructure solutions

First there was Ethernet. Then, there was IP over Ethernet. Next came the mixed use of Ethernet, IP, and the SCSI command set to simplify storage and to bring down the cost and complexity of storage. Read more »

Consider your virtualisation storage options

An overview of your virtualisation options, focusing on host-based and bare-metal environments with either host-based or shared storage. Which configuration is best for your environment? Read more »

Keeping the door open...and shut

A Web server opens up your business to the outside world, so how do you keep out those parts of the world you don't like? Read more »

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Behind the scenes at Tech.Ed

ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference. Read more »

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Ellison modelling Oracle on IBM

At a Churchhill Club event, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks to former Sun Microsystems President Ed Zander about Oracle's recent acquisition of Sun Microsystems. He says he’d like to pattern the new Oracle after T.J. Watson Jr.'s IBM, combining both hardware and software systems. Read more »

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Intel demos Moblin

At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel product manager Claire Alexander shows a demo of the Linux-based, open-source operating system Moblin. Read more »

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Motorola debuts Motoblur and Cliq

At the Mobilize conference held in San Francisco, Motorola unveiled Motoblur, a new user interface based around social networking. The Android OS-based skin will feature live widgets for integrating sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as aggregating contact details and displaying recent status updates during calls. Read more »

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Fusing a Fibre Cable

At Pipe Networks' landing station tour last week, the company showed ZDNet.com.au how to fuse two pieces of cable together. Read more »

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Honesty, WWIII and other minor annoyances -- Club Builder

On this week's Club Builder we look at some local scientists who have made a break through in fibre throughput, a group of local lads win big in Paris and we hand out our first Honesty Award. Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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