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Technology

Research in Motion profit up 45pc

Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry, said its third-quarter earnings jumped 45 per cent as sales keep surging overseas despite tough competition in the smart-phone market.
December 17, 2010, 7:14 am
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Facebook founder is Time's 'Person of Year'

Before 2010, Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old co-founder and CEO of Facebook, was primarily known as a mysterious, sweatshirted figure, a Silicon Valley wunderkind familiar mainly to those in tech circles.
December 16, 2010, 6:56 am

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Twitter raises $US200m to expand

Twitter has raised another $200 million to help its popular online communications service keep on growing.
December 16, 2010, 6:54 am

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Microsoft looks to Facebook for help with Bing

Microsoft's Bing search engine is hoping it can gain more ground on Google with a little more help from Facebook and its other Internet friends.
December 16, 2010, 6:50 am

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Yahoo set to lay off 600 staff

Yahoo is preparing to lay off between 600 and 700 workers in the latest shake-up triggered by the Internet company's lacklustre growth.
December 14, 2010, 11:25 am

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Dell completes deal to buy Compellent

Dell said overnight it had a deal to buy the data storage company Compellent Technologies for $884 million.
December 14, 2010, 8:47 am

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Twitter warns on passwords after spam attack

A spam attack on Twitter shows why it's wise to use different passwords for Internet accounts.
December 14, 2010, 7:05 am
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McDonalds, Walgreen warn on security breaches

Walgreen says a list of customers' e-mail addresses has been breached and spam may have been sent out directing customers to enter personal data into outside Web sites.
December 14, 2010, 7:04 am

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US judge dismisses patent lawsuit by Microsoft's Allen

Shares of Google and Apple edged higher in pre-market trading after a federal court judge dismissed a patent lawsuit against the tech giants brought by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
December 14, 2010, 6:59 am

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Fairfax buys NZ tendering site for $16.4m

Fairfax Media says it has purchased an Australian and New Zealand-focused tendering website TenderLink for $NZ21.6 million ($A16.43 million).
December 13, 2010, 7:30 am

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Internet soon to be omnipresent

It won't be long before video from the Internet is always within reach - whether it's on a smart phone, a tablet computer or a high-end television in the living room.
December 13, 2010, 6:39 am

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WA outage sends Vodafone offline

Vodafone mobiles across WA have remained silent for much of today following a major network outage.
December 11, 2010, 2:53 pm
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Conroy to release NBN business case

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has indicated the 400-page business case for the national broadband network will be released next week.
December 10, 2010, 1:29 pm

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Killing pigs becomes global pastime

The slaughter of some 3 trillion pigs is the kind of thing that's usually met with outrage.
December 10, 2010, 6:59 am

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Dell set to acquire Compellent

Dell is close to acquiring data storage provider Compellent Technologies for about $876 million, the computer maker said.
December 10, 2010, 6:54 am

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Microsoft to release anti-tracking browser

An upcoming version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser will let users add lists of sites that they don't want tracking them, a peace offering amid uproar over the sneaky ways that websites watch their users as they bounce around the Internet.
December 8, 2010, 6:57 am

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Google OS delayed by six months

Google is postponing the market debut of the first computers running on its highly anticipated operating system by about six months to give its engineers more time to fine-tune the software.
December 8, 2010, 6:54 am

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Washington Post to follow in online charge experiment

The Washington Post is monitoring efforts by The New York Times and other newspapers to charge readers online but has no plans to do the same for now, the Post chairman said on Monday.
December 7, 2010, 6:49 am

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Google set to become book merchant

Google is making the leap from digital librarian to merchant in a challenge to Amazon.com and its Kindle electronic reader.
December 7, 2010, 6:38 am

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Sprint Nextel to close Nextel network

Sprint Nextel said it will start phasing out the Nextel part of its network in 2013, a decision that follows near-constant subscriber losses since Sprint bought Nextel in 2005.
December 7, 2010, 6:35 am

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