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    Mobile and wireless technology is revolutionising how businesses use and profit from information.

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    Sony has once again been outed for putting its customers at risk from attack by creating software that could help criminals hide malware on a PC.

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    Reading the news via the handy (though often-ignored) AvantGo on my Pocket PC recently, I encountered an advertisement for a white paper from Microsoft offering a case study on costs of ownership for Linux versus Windows. This has the potential to be either informative or tragic, I said to myself, as I chose to download a copy.

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    By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.

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    The choice of operating system for a personal digital assisant (PDA) is effectively down to two— Palm OS or Pocket PC—but the variety of choices for the handheld itself is very impressive. We test three of the best, and see what’s coming up soon.

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    10 years is a long time in technology circles, and plenty has changed since 1992. Then again, maybe it hasn't.

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    PDAs are rapidly gaining in popularity, but with new wireless capabilities being added, how can you possibly do without one?

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  • Commentary: That was the decade that was

    10 years is a long time in technology circles, and plenty has changed since 1992. Then again, maybe it hasn't.

  • Intel catches up with its 64-bit competitors

    Intel's latest Pentium 4 processors bring long-awaited 64-bit support to the desktop, along with -- in the 600 series -- notebook-style cooling technology.

  • Almost as good as being there

    Virtual machines gained popularity as a way to emulate Windows on Mac OS or Linux. ZDNet Australia looks at the two most popular packages.

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