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Buying faster switches might not be the only way to amp up performance across data center networks, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego, who this week proposed a network architecture that would enable commodity Ethernet switches to deliver better performance at a lower cost than their 10 Gigabit Ethernet counterparts.

High Tech Computer (HTC) will soon ship its one millionth Touch Diamond handset, just a few months after its launch in June, despite stiff competition from Apple's iPhone 3G.

Flash memory chip maker SanDisk has teamed up with Toshiba to jointly develop and manufacture re-writeable 3D memory, SanDisk revealed in a filing to U.S. stock market regulators on Tuesday.

Palm isn't dead yet! That's the word from Palm CEO Ed Colligan, speaking at the recent media launch of the Palm Centro in Australia. To hear him tell it, the once-pioneering handheld maker is set to come roaring back onto the stage with new products, a new focus, and a brand-new, Linux-based OS, code-named Nova.

Amazon, better known for peddling books and CDs than selling leading-edge technology, surprised much of the tech world by rolling out, and actually attracting customers to, its version of cloud computing. Sure, there's still plenty of reason to be skeptical -- indeed, cloud computing is one of those technologies that can sound more like a buzzword than a solution to real-world IT problems -- but other players are jumping into the game.

A university data centre may not seem the place to adopt leading edge technology, given that publicly-funded institutes are chronically short of money.

The Trans-Pacific Express (TPE) Consortium yesterday announced two new members to the group which is aggressively designing and constructing an 18,000 km next-generation fibre-optic submarine cable between the Asia Pacific and the United States.

Australia's ICT research centre, NICTA, has signed a commercial license agreement with VastPark, a virtual worlds platform provider.

With the recent release of version 4.0, the KDE open source project has garnered a lot of international attention. One of KDE's lead developers, and best known personality, Aaron J Seigo is in Australia to speak at this year's Linux.conf.au on his vision for better desktop computing. Computerworld spoke with Seigo, a native of Calgary, Canada, about his view of the world and how a little bit of innovation will permanently change how people interact with software.

IT spending in the retail industry will reach $A1.54 billion ($US1.36 billion) by the end of 2007 and the market will grow at a cumulative growth rate of nine per cent from 2006 to 2010, according to Springboard Research. The market will hit $A1.96 billion by 2010, according to the company's forecasts.

Edward Zander's departure as CEO from Motorola, announced Friday, should spark intense examination by incoming CEO Greg Brown into which markets the cell phone and communications equipment maker should focus on.