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  • Ruling Forces Microsoft Office Upgrade

    After losing a patent case brought on by Guatemalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado, Microsoft has been forced to release new versions of Office XP and 2003 that changes the way Access databases interact with Excel spreadsheets.

  • Terabytes in Toasters

    As storage needs skyrocket, innovative solutions are appearing to store, share and manage critical data. Two new ultra-compact products are on the market this week, the first is Australian IT distributor Tecksel’s compact, 1 terabyte soluti...

  • Overland Pins Hopes To Tape

    It has been an uneasy couple of months for Overland. It’s lost a major deal with HP, fought off a hostile takeover from rival Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) and last week announced a second quarter loss. Now it is looking to get ...

  • Yahoo! and Seven Launch New Web Business

    In E-Commerce news, Yahoo! and the Seven Network have announced that they have joined forces and launched the new portal Yahoo!7 in direct competition to NineMSN.

  • Linux Not Changing License Structure

    The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds has stated that the Linux kernel will not be moving to Gnu Public License (GPL) version 3 due to Digital Rights Management (DRM) issues.

  • Don’t Be Evil… Unless By Proxy

    Google fallen into line behind other search engines blocking content that is, apparently, not in the national interest rather than risk being dropped on the wrong side of the ‘Great Firewall of China’.

  • Western Digital Ships SATA

    Hot on Seagate’s heels, Western Digital today announced that it is shipping 500Gb Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives.

  • Egenera Hots Up Blades But Keeps Its Cool

    The US grid computing provider Egenera has announced its third generation blade server infrastructure which the company claims, doubles BladeFrame performance and Ethernet connectivity on average.