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  • Global DSL standard improves business services

    International experts are set to ratify the first standard technology for offering business-class broadband services over DSL. Once approved, the deployment of such services will be simpler, cheaper and more efficient than today's methods.

  • ISP's mega-float to wake investors

    It's the largest initial public offering a US-based Internet company has ever attempted, and it could have the heft to turn the Internet IPO market around and alert Wall Street to a new category of service provider.

  • Group takes nonstandard try at antipiracy standard

    Frustrated by the lack of a copy protection standard that might help the digital content business reach the mainstream, a high-profile digital media group is taking matters into its own hands.

  • Mobile phones heading into iPod territory

    Jingles on mobile phones are going beyond ring tones, calling up a day when wireless devices might double as mini MP3 players with the potential to replace stand-alone products such as Apple Computer's iPod.

  • Intel's 3D divorce rate

    Developers of three-dimensional rendering technology for the Web known as X3D are bracing for a standards war with Intel--a former backer of the project--just as their recently sundered collaboration bears fruit.

  • Wireless hits notes in 802.11a, b and g

    Just when consumers have learned to use--and pronounce--the wireless networks known as 802.11, along comes a few new versions that threaten to confuse the market.

  • CES 2003: Anywhere, anytime technology

    Gadgets featured at the Consumer Electronics Show 2003 make technology available anywhere, anytime. ZDNet Australia presents this special coverage of the show.

  • Music services jump on iTunes bandwagon

    In a rush to market that's reminiscent of the dot-com bubble's headiest days, a stampede of companies is following Apple Computer pell-mell into the online music sales business.

  • Can Google save America Online?

    Paid search listings have helped pull Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN Web portal from the dot-com advertising mire, but America Online is still in search of a saviour.

  • Streamlining processes is at a premium

    Another tradition-bound industry is being swept up in the online exchange frenzy—this time it's the insurance business.

  • The next digital battle--ring tones

    The same forces that took on file-swapping companies Napster and MP3.com are quietly setting their sights on what some regard as the next digital copyright battle: selling ring tones for mobile phones.

  • For IT, Bluetooth continues to dawdle

    Hampered by high prices and disagreements over protocols, the much-hyped technology is now suffering a growing lack of support from industry leaders that could jeopardize its future.

  • Are smart phones too smart?

    The so-called smart phones that will flood North America in the next several months may be too smart for their own good.

  • Will B2B bring 'Push' tech back from the dead?

    BackWeb is banking that corporations will be receptive to revisiting push technology for B2B after retooling it to address the criticisms that had doused its popularity.

  • 'Smart' tech toys for kids of all ages

    Lego Mindstorm's Vision Command System is an example of toys and technology converging. According to industry insiders, more such toys are on the way.

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