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• Mainframe staff shortage looms as boomers retire while ... iTWire - Latest ...

  Mainframe staff shortage looms as boomers retire while usage grows

  Get set for a shortage of staff with mainframe expertise as baby boomers who cut their teeth on big iron cash in their pension cheques and head off for a ...

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 1 hour ago

• Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction (Reuters) Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction (Reuters)

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair.

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 3 hours, 29 minutes ago

• Mammoth genome approaching completion Science News

  Mammoth genome approaching completion

  Sequencing of the extinct creature's nuclear DNA about 70 percent done

  Science News - 4 hours, 30 minutes ago

• Microsoft rules out buying Yahoo but likes search ... Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Microsoft rules out buying Yahoo but likes search (Reuters)

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday ruled out an acquisition of Yahoo Inc but said his company was very interested in resuming talks on ...

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 4 hours, 30 minutes ago

Published 4 hours ago

• New levitation technique floats water with noise New Scientist Tech ...

  New levitation technique floats water with noise

  Crime labs could benefit from a technique to suspend tiny droplets in air without contamination

  New Scientist Tech - Technology - 4 hours, 49 minutes ago

• Microsoft to offer free anti-virus software (AFP) Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Microsoft to offer free anti-virus software (AFP)

  WASHINGTON (AFP) - Microsoft has announced plans to offer free anti-virus software to PC users starting next year.

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 5 hours, 29 minutes ago

• Microsoft Feared Mac vs. Vista In '05 Slashdot

  Microsoft Feared Mac vs. Vista In '05

  CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the 'Vista Capable' lawsuit to dig up this jewel...More than a year before Windows Vista's release — and ...

  Slashdot - 5 hours, 50 minutes ago

• Invention: Diamond dialysis implant New Scientist Tech ...

  Invention: Diamond dialysis implant

  Combining physical filters with electric fields to prevent clogging makes for an artificial kidney small enough to implant in the body, a patent application says

  New Scientist Tech - Technology - 8 hours, 15 minutes ago

• Listed investor Wilson sees chance in calamity The Australian | ...

  Listed investor Wilson sees chance in calamity

  Article from : Australian APTHE chairman of listed stock market investor Wilson Investment Fund says the market climate will provide the biggest buying opportunity in his lifetime.Geoff Wilson ...

  The Australian | Science - 8 hours, 53 minutes ago

Published 10 hours ago

• Microsoft to offer free security program The Age Technology ...

  Microsoft to offer free security program

  Microsoft to ditch its subscription PC security service and offer free software to protect computers from viruses, spyware and other threats.

  The Age Technology Headlines - 10 hours ago

• Japanese mobiles to offer psychotherapy sessions (AFP) Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Japanese mobiles to offer psychotherapy sessions (AFP)

  TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese professor on Wednesday launched what he said was the world's first web-based psychotherapy sessions available via mobile phone, as the country grapples with a growing ...

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 10 hours, 25 minutes ago

• IronPort appoints new territory manager iTWire - Latest ...

  IronPort appoints new territory manager

  Cisco-owned anti-malware provider IronPort Systems has appointed Luke Healey to the role of territory manager, NSW. The company is pointing to newly created role at IronPort’s office within Cisco’s North...

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 11 hours, 15 minutes ago

• ISPs think Conroy is incompetent on Internet filtering: ... iTWire - Latest ...

  ISPs think Conroy is incompetent on Internet filtering: iiNet boss

  The managing director of Australia's third largest Internet service provider has let fly with another tirade against Australian Communications Minister, Senator Conroy, claiming that the ISP community are not impressed ...

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 11 hours, 37 minutes ago

• GCAP08: Game Developers discuss Film, TV and Game ... iTWire - Latest ...

  GCAP08: Game Developers discuss Film, TV and Game integration

  Reading that headline you will be forgiven for thinking that game developers are about to sell out to the big film studios to suck your soul from your head with...

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 11 hours, 46 minutes ago

Published 12 hours ago

• Kremlin probes media coverage of financial crisis: report ... Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Kremlin probes media coverage of financial crisis: report (ABC)

  One of Russia's leading newspapers is reporting that the Government is investigating the media's coverage of the financial crisis to see if it further destabilised the market.

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 12 hours, 57 minutes ago

• Feature: Human diet gives pathogens something to eat ScienceAlert - Latest ...

  Feature: Human diet gives pathogens something to eat

  Research has uncovered a bacterium-causing disease in humans that relies on our diet - it targets a molecule that is only incorporated into our bodies through what we eat.

  ScienceAlert - Latest Stories - 13 hours, 58 minutes ago

• No e-waste tax: Garrett AustralianIT.com.au | IT ...

  No e-waste tax: Garrett

  CONSUMERS won't be taxed for recycling electronic goods such as computers, TVs and mobile phones.

  AustralianIT.com.au | IT News Top Stories - 13 hours, 58 minutes ago

• Skinny clothing models not superior ScienceAlert - Latest ...

  Skinny clothing models not superior

  Research using mock advertising has found that models of average weight worked as well as thin models – and also made people feel better about their bodies.

  ScienceAlert - Latest Stories - 13 hours, 58 minutes ago

• 'Uncertainty' over IP ruling AustralianIT.com.au | IT ...

  'Uncertainty' over IP ruling

  CONTRACT research, collaboration and consulting would become difficult for those who managed university inventions under a contentious Federal Court ruling, a technology transfer conference has been warned.

  AustralianIT.com.au | IT News Top Stories - 14 hours, 38 minutes ago

Published 14 hours ago

• Crisis may threaten tech firms AustralianIT.com.au | IT ...

  Crisis may threaten tech firms

  SMALL technology firms may collapse and inventions be lost overseas because research commercialisation faces such uncertainty and turmoil on several fronts, leading industry figures have warned.

  AustralianIT.com.au | IT News | Technology - 14 hours, 58 minutes ago

• No gags in new rules for CSIRO AustralianIT.com.au | IT ...

  No gags in new rules for CSIRO

  THE federal Government has promised not to "interfere improperly" in the scholarly work of the CSIRO.

  AustralianIT.com.au | IT News Top Stories - 14 hours, 58 minutes ago

• EDS axe hits Sydney's Burwood zdnet Business

  EDS axe hits Sydney's Burwood

  The Australian division of HP-owned IT outsourcing giant EDS is in the process of retrenching staff at a facility in Burwood, Sydney, according to several sources.

  zdnet Business - 15 hours, 21 minutes ago

• Facebook in mobile push AustralianIT.com.au | Top ...

  Facebook in mobile push

  ONE day, up to 90 per cent of Facebook users will access the popular social-networking site via mobile devices, an executive said.

  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories - 15 hours, 28 minutes ago

• Google hosts Life mag's photos The Age Technology ...

  Google hosts Life mag's photos

  Google opens an online photo gallery featuring millions of images from Life magazine's archives that have never been seen by the public before.

  The Age Technology Headlines - 16 hours, 16 minutes ago

Published 16 hours ago

• Alcatel-Lucent Australasia head, Hilary Mine, to leave iTWire - Latest ...

  Alcatel-Lucent Australasia head, Hilary Mine, to leave

  Hilary Mine, head of Alcatel for Australasia and North Asia will leave the company for personal reasons before Christmas. She will be replaced by Andrew Butterworth as acting country senior...

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 16 hours, 30 minutes ago

• No arrests at EDS Australia AustralianIT.com.au | Top ...

  No arrests at EDS Australia

  EDS has refuted claims that an employee was arrested following a punch-up that ensued after the worker was told they lost their job on Monday.

  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories - 16 hours, 38 minutes ago

• Review: Resistance 2 – Nathan Hale vs Marcus ... iTWire - Latest ...

  Review: Resistance 2 – Nathan Hale vs Marcus Fenix

  Both next-gen gaming consoles now have sequels to their most acclaimed exclusive shooters, so how does the first person alternative action of Resistance 2 stack up against Marcus Fenix and...

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 16 hours, 44 minutes ago

• 3 throws a lifeline to BigAir's iBurst customers iTWire - Latest ...

  3 throws a lifeline to BigAir's iBurst customers

  BigAir has negotiated a deal with 3 to migrate its iBurst wireless broadband customers onto 3's network ahead of the planned closure of the iBurst network on 18 December.

  iTWire - Latest Headlines - 17 hours, 19 minutes ago

• Queenslanders debate cloud computing zdnet Headlines

  Queenslanders debate cloud computing

  Could cloud computing be used to deliver a national driver's license registration scheme that was sold to states as a service? Probably not, say four Queensland Government IT chiefs, including ...

  zdnet Headlines - 18 hours, 20 minutes ago

Published 18 hours ago

• ConnectEast seeking $350m in capital after weak traffic The Australian | ...

  ConnectEast seeking $350m in capital after weak traffic

  MELBOURNE toll - road operator ConnectEast Group is looking to raise over $350 million to ease its capital position after traffic on the new road has fallen short of expectations.The ...

  The Australian | Science - 18 hours, 35 minutes ago

• Lost in space: Astronaut drops tool bag (ABC) Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Lost in space: Astronaut drops tool bag (ABC)

  There has been an unfortunate case of butterfingers in the Space Shuttle Endeavour's mission to the International Space Station.

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 19 hours, 13 minutes ago

• Microsoft to offer free security software (Reuters) Yahoo!7 - Technology

  Microsoft to offer free security software (Reuters)

  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said Wednesday it will discontinue sales of its subscription PC security service and instead offer free software to help protect computers from viruses, spyware ...

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 19 hours, 55 minutes ago

• Yahoo needs an Obama The Age Technology ...

  Yahoo needs an Obama

  With Jerry Yang quitting as Yahoo's chief executive, the internet company's board will confront pivotal questions as it looks for a new leader.

  The Age Technology Headlines - 19 hours, 59 minutes ago

• World's oldest polar bear dies at Canadian zoo ... Yahoo!7 - Technology

  World's oldest polar bear dies at Canadian zoo (Reuters)

  VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Canadian zoo officials on Tuesday were mourning the death of what is believed to be the world's oldest polar bear.

  Yahoo!7 - Technology - 22 hours, 28 minutes ago

Published 22 hours ago

• ACMA Won't Refer MacBank Chief to DPP The Australian | ...

  ACMA Won't Refer MacBank Chief to DPP

  AUSTRALIA'S broadcasting regulator will not refer a breach of media ownership laws by Macquarie Bank chief Nicholas Moore to Commonwealth prosecutors.The Australian Communications and Media Authority ...

  The Australian | Science - 22 hours, 40 minutes ago

• Virus downs London hospitals zdnet Headlines

  Virus downs London hospitals

  Three London hospitals have had to shut down most of their computer systems after being struck by a virus.

  zdnet Headlines - 22 hours, 49 minutes ago

• How to deal with a green skeptic Latest News in ...

  How to deal with a green skeptic

  We would love to know how the ABC deals with the skeptics and creates a green culture at work.

  Latest News in Science (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 22 hours, 52 minutes ago

• Yang's departure could open Microsoft door zdnet Headlines

  Yang's departure could open Microsoft door

  Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said this week.

  zdnet Headlines - 22 hours, 53 minutes ago

• IBM names Korhonen successor AustralianIT.com.au | IT ...

  IBM names Korhonen successor

  IBM Australia has appointed a seasoned campaigner to replace Jackie Korhonen as its managed business process services head.

  AustralianIT.com.au | IT News Top Stories - 23 hours, 28 minutes ago

Published 23 hours ago

• Medicare pushes e-health system AustralianIT.com.au | Top ...

  Medicare pushes e-health system

  MEDICARE Australia wants medical specialists who have largely resisted online connectivity to come on board with its e-claiming system.

  AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories - 23 hours, 58 minutes ago