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  • Nasa hacker pushes for UK jail term

    The solicitors of self-confessed NASA hacker Gary McKinnon have formally requested that the US give assurances that he serve any prison term in the UK.

  • UK airport begins biometric ID trial

    Manchester Airport has begun a six-month trial of biometric face recognition technology that will scan passengers and use automatic gates in an attempt to tighten border security and speed up immigration checks.

  • New CIOs for NHS project

    The UK Department of Health has named the new leadership team that will direct the future of its mammoth e-health initiative, the NHS National Program for IT.

  • iPhone nano reports surface

    Apple is planning to release a smaller, 'nano' model of its iPhone handset in time for Christmas, according to UK Newspaper the Daily Mail.

  • Video: Whitbread CIO

    Ben Wishart, change and information director at Whitbread - owner of a number of UK hotel and restaurant chains - talks about his rise to the top from his days as a white-water rafting guide in Kathmandu, and how technology is helping drive change at Whitbread.

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    Telstra's BT coat doesn't fit

    The vision of the future BT portrayed this week at an Australian conference was so far removed from how Telstra's David Quilty has described the British telco that I wonder if they were talking about the same UK.

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Superstars and avatars

    Having recently succumbed to the debatable allure of MySpace, I've taken an interest in how people represent themselves online.

  • Read the blog post - Renai LeMay

    Telstra launches 8Mbps ADSL ... in the UK

    Why are the Poms getting uncapped ADSL broadband speeds from Telstra while Australians are stuck with speeds of just 1.5Mbps?

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  • Photos: The digital heroes of WW2

    As England's historic Bletchley Park raises funds to restore buildings used by code-breaking legends such as Alan Turing during World War II, ZDNet.com.au 's sister site CNET News.com is taking a look back at the cryptographic machines that kept vital specialists of the German, American, British, Polish, and Japanese military forces awake at night.

  • Cisco: Economics doesn't stop business networking

    Cisco's Nick Watson discusses 802.11n, the battle with Microsoft in unified communications, and security issues with Unified Communications Manager.

  • Oxfam Great Britain: Simon Jennings, CIO

    Simon Jennings talks about the success of the Oxfam water bucket and the group's unusual catalogue which sells everything from camels to desks.

  • The big fuss over little Retek

    Software maker Retek emerged from relative obscurity this week after Oracle began a wrestling match with archrival SAP for ownership of the company. So what's so hot about retail IT?

  • Battle of the bots

    You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.

Videos (2)

  • Video: Whitbread CIO

    Ben Wishart, change and information director at Whitbread, talks about his rise to the top from his days as a white-water rafting guide in Kathmandu, and how technology is helping drive change at Whitbread.

  • Oxfam Great Britain: Simon Jennings, CIO

    Simon Jennings talks about the success of the Oxfam water bucket and the group's unusual catalogue which sells everything from camels to desks.

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  • First Look: Gmail

    Google's new Web mail service is free and provides a gigabyte of storage, but also raises privacy concerns. We put the beta version through its paces.

  • Stolen mobiles blocked across all Aust GSM networks

    Stolen or lost mobile phones will be blocked across all GSM networks in Australia from September 15.

  • AMD notebook chips aim high and low

    Advanced Micro Devices has opened the throttle on its Athlon XP-M processors for notebooks.

  • UK mobile carrier halves value of 3G license

    The perceived viability of 3G networks has taken another blow with UK mobile company mmO2 announcing it had made a pre-tax loss of £10.2bn, and admitting that it paid well over the odds for its third-generation licences.

  • A shot in the arm for widescreen

    Sales of widescreen televisions have accelerated rapidly in Australia since January 2001, according to industry supported body Digital Broadcasting Australia (DBA).

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