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    The first round of funding for Labor's plan to put a laptop on every desk AU$116 million is winging its way to 896 schools for over 100,000 computers.

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    The Labor Party has slammed the current regime for its lack of leadership in driving the telecommunications sector into a competitive market, adding that if it were to be elected this year, Telstra would have no choice but to drive its network at lower prices.

  • Switching off PCs to save UK govt 10 million pounds

    The UK Office of Government Commerce has urged public-sector workers to turn off their PCs overnight to help cut carbon emissions and costs.

  • Intel powers up plans for low-power chips

    Woodcrest, Conroe and Merom point towards Intel's target of a ten-fold reduction in power consumption by the end of the decade.

  • Intel to make single-core Yonah

    Though Intel spent much time during the past week touting the benefits of Yonah, a dual-core chip for notebooks, the company said it will come out with a single-core version too.

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    Despite having a quality management product on the books at Western Power, no one was using it, causing the energy company to have problems with software development quality.

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    It seemed like a good idea at the time, but Australian utilities' recent abandonment of broadband over powerline (BPL) technology has all but sealed the fate of a technology that was once hoped to bring high-speed data to every corner of Australia.

  • Jus' got the banking IT blues

    Will Suncorp chief information officer Jeff Smith stick around if the bank's rapid decline in value due to the credit crisis lead to a fire sale of several of its key divisions?

  • Gates on Vista, Linux and more

    Microsoft's chairman discusses his favourite Vista feature, why he'll keep pushing for a new file system and open source's role.

  • Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality

    Ten years ago, Microsoft executives worried that an Internet platform could threaten Windows. The nightmare now has a name: Google.

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  • Sanyo releases 'super batteries'

    Sanyo today announced a new environmentally friendly rechargeable battery line dubbed 'eneloop', which it claims allows for nearly five times as many shots as a regular alkaline battery when placed in a digital camera, in addition to being recyclable.

  • Wireless the word for Intel

    Intel's strategy for desktops, notebooks and handhelds can be summed up in one word: wireless.

  • Intel outlines mobile future

    Chipmaker Intel has given details of new initiatives aimed at reducing the power consumption of notebook displays and at adding communications capabilities to portable computing devices.

  • Analysts: Microsoft feels tug of Linux

    The growing popularity of Linux will force Microsoft to bring its software to the Unix clone starting in late 2004, a research firm has predicted in a study that Microsoft promptly disputed.

  • Can SMS save mobile commerce?

    Let's face it, mobile commerce never delivered on the hype that surrounded it over the last few years. But that doesn't mean mobile commerce is dead, thanks to a new use of an old technology.

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