• Viewsonic unveils new ultraportables with 13.3-inch and 14-inch screens

    Viewsonic VNB141 offers ultraportable design with an optical drive and the VNB132 isn't that shabby either.

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  • Melbourne college in 1100-seat Win7 migration

    APC journalist James Bannan has upgraded his school's 1100-PC network to Windows 7 and describes the challenges and benefits.

  • TOO EXPENSIVE: NBN monthly plans unveiled

    The first 100Mbit/s plans have been announced for the national broadband network, but they're like Telstra pricing -- only worse.

  • BigPond Music dumps support for WMA

    Telstra’s online music arm BigPond Music yesterday revealed it would ditch support for the unpopular Windows Media Audio format after April 1.

  • EFA rejects “extraordinary” Conroy attack

    Online rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has responded to what it described as an "extraordinary challenge and attack" by Comms Minister Stephen Conroy.

  • Oh dear: Pirate Party Serkowski’s fighting words

    Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey might have come out swinging against Conroy and his internet filtering scheme last week, but the Pirate Party Australia is still not impressed.

  • NSW hands out 66,000 student laptops

    NSW Education Minister Verity Firth says 66,000 Lenovo laptops have been handed out to school kids already.

  • Conroy promises to get on to Telstra debate this week

    Comms Minister Conroy's office has played down fears that debate over reform to Telstra might be delayed until May.

  • EFA deliberately misled on internet filter: Conroy

    Comms Minister Stephen Conroy's latest attack is on Electronic Frontiers Australia, who he has accused of deliberately misleading the public about his internet filter scheme.

  • Intel's Larrabee mostly dead but still in development for now

    Why is my GPU not working? You have been mostly dead all day.

  • EXCLUSIVE: Samsung to release ‘slate’ PC

    Samsung is working on a slate-based device with desktop docking, which it says will have enough processing muscle to become the “primary device” for many people.

  • Samsung: “the iPad is a glorified MID”

    Samsung exec says the iPad is just a jumped-up mobile Internet device, with lack of processing power and connectivity being key drawbacks.