Ford Performance Racing (FPR) is delighted to welcome Dean Canto and Luke Youlden to the Prodrive team for the 2008 V8 Supercar endurance races.
Author: Kristin Powell
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Torvalds worries about patents and slow storage
Linus Torvalds has revealed he’s worried about how patents will affect the future of Linux.
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Telstra ‘loses game of chicken’ on ADSL2+ rollout
Telstra has officially switched on over 900 ADSL2+ exchanges, amid allegations of spin by the telco over its decision to back down on the issue of regulation.
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IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire Internet
A research paper shows that IBM is working on a computing system capable “of hosting the entire internet as an application.” This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM’s Blue Gene supercomputers to create a theoretical mega-system of 67.1m cores, 32PB of memory, and an IO output of 10.4Pb/s.
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Optus gets funds boost to build regional wireless broadband
OPTUS says almost $1 billion in government funding it won last year to build a regional wireless broadband network should hit its bank account within three months.
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Telstra: ACCC is fighting to keep G9 in fibre race
The ACCC’s vision of Australia’s next-generation of broadband is designed to keep its rival G9 in the race to build a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) network and will sentence the country to a low speed future, according to Telstra.
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Fixed line broadband under threat from wireless
Mobile broadband is fast approaching the point globally where it is becoming a credible threat to residential fixed-line broadband services. This is the view of a European based telecommunications analyst firm.
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Lenovo Laptops to ship with embedded Ericsson HSPA
Lenovo has become the first announced customer for Ericsson’s HSPA module, which includes a GPS receiver, and will start offering laptops with this embedded later this year.
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NVIDIA snaps up physics processing company Ageia
NVIDIA announced its intent to buy physics processor company Ageia today and indicated it plans to adopt the company’s PhysX processor for use in next-generation GPUs. Given Intel’s recent decision to acquire Havok, physics seems to be the arena in which the next-generation of performance battles will take place.
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Official: 16GB iPhone available and 32GB iPod touch, $499
Out of the rumor mill comes the 16GB iPhone, now official. Ever since the 16GB iPod touch was announced in September, we all knew it was just a matter of time until Apple could bung the same NAND chip into their chubbier iPhone. The Surprise is a new 32GB iPod touch for the same $499. Both are available immediately.