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• eTerrorism: Keeping networks alive in New York

  As architects submit proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Centre, below the streets engineers are constructing a project of their own--one designed to keep the city connected.

• New Zealand to get NBN, too

  The victory of New Zealand's National Party in the country's elections over the weekend has vaulted the creation of a $1.5 billion national fibre broadband network to the top of the government's agenda.

• ISPs cautiously re-commit to Tasmania

  Large internet service providers Internode and Netspace yesterday committed to ramp up offerings in Tasmania as soon as the Basslink fibre cable was switched on. But doubts remain about how likely this is to actually happen.

• Internet gridlock to occur in just two years

  The US telecoms giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010.

• Business heavyweight backs SE Qld broadband plan

  Woolworths chairman James Strong will spearhead a local council proposal to improve broadband services in south-east Queensland.

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  Start-to-meta: the meta metric

  Seeing this week's Crate Tetris public art piece on the Wooster Collective Web site, installed next to a Melbourne highway as a sequel to Crate Man in Richmond, put me in mind of an old article written for infamous computer game site Old Man Murray.

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• Photos: Aussie research speeds traffic, finds crims

  At NICTA's recent Techfest conference, researchers from National ICT Australia (NICTA) get to show off the projects they have been working on all year, including facial recognition tech designed to help catch criminals as well as better algorithms and sensors for traffic control.

• Hilton Hotels: Tim Harvey, CIO

  Tim Harvey, CIO of Hilton Hotels, tells of technologies that will turn hotel rooms into "homes away from home".

• Wireless: Bigger may not be better

  Find out four tips for making sure your network footprint stays secure as it grows.

• No Microsoft dinosaur

  Nathan Myhrvold is looking for a few smart people to conjure up new ideas and profitable patents. What's wrong with that?

• Mesh: The next step for wireless

  Mesh technology allows new wireless networks to be created, or existing WLANs to be extended, without needing a wired connection to each base station. Additional reading: WLAN Resource Centre

Reviews (4)

• OzEmail Metrowide Wireless

  It's not exactly cheap, but if you want wireless broadband on the go -- and critically, if you live in the right bits of the correct cities -- then it's your best current choice.

• Apple's new UFO-like device lands

  When the first UFO-shaped AirPort Base Station landed in stores, it was part of the wireless networking vanguard.

• Will MPEG-4 Fly?

  A new streaming-media standard promises to unify a fractious market, but inferior quality and bureaucracy may block acceptance.

• My first look at Windows XP: It's great. Here's why.

  Microsoft's new Windows XP--at least the beta builds I've been playing with--combines the best of Windows 2000 with what I like about Windows Me, and then goes a step further. And this is good.

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