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    Nokia loses share in India to Chinese and local brands

    28 September, 2010 22:41
    Its delay in introducing dual-SIM phones may have hurt its sales, according to IDC India
    Nokia's market share in India dropped to 36 percent in the second quarter from 56 percent in the same period last year, reflecting the growing share of Chinese and Indian vendors of low-end mobile phones, according to research firm IDC India.
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    OpenOffice.org developers move to break ties with Oracle

    28 September, 2010 20:51
    Developers of OpenOffice.org have created a new foundation and a new brand, LibreOffice, to promote the software suite
    Some developers of the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite announced a break from Oracle on Tuesday, introducing a new name for the project and establishing a new foundation to guide its future.
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    Sony Ericsson preps micro display for Android

    28 September, 2010 19:48
    LiveView allows users to see missed calls, incoming text messages and view rss feeds remotely
    Sony Ericsson has unveiled a remote control with a 1.3-inch screen that will allow Android smartphone users to view Facebook and Twitter updates and control their phone's music player.
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    Kmart Tyre and Auto Service calls up IT success

    28 September, 2010 17:07
    Retailer embraces speech recognition technology
    Using speech recognition has helped independent car service and tyre retailer Kmart Tyre & Auto Service (KTAS) to pinpoint how effective its marketing spend. The retailer started using the technology and its online analytical tools a year ago.
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    WA Treasury inches closer to tax modernisation

    28 September, 2010 17:05
    Shared services model adopted, praised, loved
    The Western Australian Department of Treasury and Finance has claimed success in implementing key projects across the past year as it looks to fully modernise its revenues, tax and shared services systems by 2013.
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    CodePlex Foundation now called Outercurve

    28 September, 2010 17:03
    Seeking to shed its Microsoft roots, CodePlex Foundation has become the Outercurve Foundation
    Seeking to distance itself even further from Microsoft, the CodePlex Foundation has officially changed its name to the Outercurve Foundation, the company announced Tuesday.
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    iPad trials hit Tasmanian schools

    28 September, 2010 17:01
    DET trialing 30 of the mobile devices across the state's schools.
    The Tasmanian Department of Education and Training has revealed over 30 iPads are being trialled in a number of schools across the state, with plans in the works to also examine the potential for Android- and Windows-based tablets to be used as an education device.
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    BlackBerry roundup

    28 September, 2010 16:53
    The word on everyone’s lips for the past week has been ‘BlackBerry’, for good reason(s).
    The word on everyone’s lips for the past week has been ‘BlackBerry’, for good reason(s).
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    Tilera: Server with 800 cores may ship next year

    28 September, 2010 16:00
    Quanta could ship 800-core server by end of next year
    A server with 800 processor cores could ship next year with Tilera's next-generation 100-core chips inside, a company executive said Monday.
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    Australian economy ‘not big enough’ to be cloud hub

    28 September, 2010 15:58
    Local organisations must get used to housing data offshore, bureaucrats warn
    The Australian economy may not be large enough to warrant international vendors launching dedicated data centres to provide cloud services to the local and Asia Pacific markets, a senior federal government bureaucrat has warned.
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    BlackBerry PlayBook: No Australian details

    28 September, 2010 12:21
    Local pricing and availability for new RIM tablet remain unclear
    BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will not confirm when its new PlayBook tablet device will reach Australia, nor expected local pricing.
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    E-health urgency required to overhaul industry

    28 September, 2010 11:33
    Former Queensland Health CIO, Peter Grant, picks apart the problems in health informatics
    A former CIO of Queensland Health has called upon the health informatics industry to rethink the way the way health IT and e-health projects are implemented.
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    Reserve Bank ditches paper systems for admin

    28 September, 2010 11:29
    Upgrading payment process to PeopleSoft
    The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is looking to automate its procure-to-pay processes as part of the work being undertaken to modernise its administrative systems.
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    Telcos refuse to budge on customer service: ACMA

    28 September, 2010 11:26
    Regulator to take submissions on road
    The Australian Communication and Media Authority’s (ACMA) public inquiry into telecommunication customer care has drawn poor responses from the industry, according to ACMA chairman Chris Chapman.
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    RIM launches 7-in. 'PlayBook' tablet

    28 September, 2010 10:48
    The device, unveiled at DevCon 2010, features a new OS from QNX
    Research in Motion (RIM) unveiled an "enterprise-ready" 7-in. touchscreen BlackBerry Playbook tablet on Monday that features front and rear high-definition cameras, a dual-core 1 GHz processor and a new BlackBerry Tablet OS.
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    HP completes $2.35 billion 3Par merger

    28 September, 2010 10:31
    HP has completed its $2.35 billion merger with 3Par, just weeks after thwarting rival Dell in a bidding war for the storage vendor, HP announced Monday.
    HP has completed its $2.35 billion merger with 3Par, just weeks after thwarting rival Dell in a bidding war for the storage vendor, HP announced Monday.
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    Don't blame DNS for Facebook outage, experts say

    28 September, 2010 10:22
    Experts in the inner workings of the Internet’s Domain Name System say the 27-year-old communications protocol does not appear to be the cause of Facebook’s high-profile outage last week
    Experts in the inner workings of the Internet’s Domain Name System – which matches IP addresses with corresponding domain names — say the 27-year-old communications protocol does not appear to be the cause of Facebook’s high-profile outage last week.
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    OCZ unveils next-gen SSD, promising lower price, higher performance

    28 September, 2010 10:06
    OCZ Technology today unveiled the next generation of its consumer-class solid state drive (SSD), the 2.5-in Onyx 2 series, which it said is faster, more durable and more affordable that its predecessor
    OCZ Technology today unveiled the next generation of its consumer-class solid state drive (SSD), the 2.5-in Onyx 2 series, which it said is faster, more durable and more affordable that its predecessor.
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    Feds eye plan to make Internet snooping easier

    28 September, 2010 10:01
    The Obama Administration is reportedly considering a statute that would make it easier for federal authorities to intercept communications over services such as Facebook, Skype and BlackBerry
    The Obama Administration is reportedly considering a statute that would make it easier for federal authorities to intercept communications over services such as Facebook, Skype and BlackBerry -- an idea that's stoking anxiety within the privacy community.
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    After attacks, Microsoft to rush out fix for ASP.net bug

    28 September, 2010 09:57
    For a change, the update will be released first to the Microsoft Download Center
    Microsoft is rushing out a fix for a Windows Web server flaw that is starting to be exploited by online attackers.
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