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The following stories appeared in this week's edition of NEXT.Publication Date: 27 November 2007
Energy ratings for PCs could be coming soon
In two years' time it may be illegal to sell power-guzzling computers or monitors in Australia.
Hardball with the giants
HP and IBM have battled it out for years but only one can win.
No more furrowed browsers
The browser might be king of Web 2.0, but there's still a place on your desktop for an old-school FTP client such as FileZilla.
PlayStation a hacker's dream
The powerful processors in Sony's PlayStation 3 gaming console now
have another use: cracking passwords.
Question Time
Q If my cable internet connection is on all the time, is my computer vulnerable to malicious interference from the internet while my computer is booting up and before my firewall software is loaded? B. Player
Sharper image for hospital
A YEAR ago, radiologists at Flinders Medical Centre often took about three days to complete their reports on patient scans.
The transistor at 60
Are we starting to hit the limits of this extraordinary
breakthrough? Beverley Head reports.
Webcast wins the race
Follow cycling? Fencing? Horse riding? Frustrated that it doesn't get any television coverage? Webcasting, which makes video content available over the internet, could be the answer.
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Publication Date: 20 November 2007Election IT promises under scrutiny
Australia's peak IT industry body will give Labor a pat on the back for its broadband and education revolution policies, but deduct marks for its anti-WorkChoices stand in a pre-election scorecard to be released this week.
Faster, higher, censored
China will use the 2008 Olympic Games to market itself to the world. All countries do this, but the Chinese example will look more like Berlin 1936 than Sydney 2000.
Hype is just a virtualised belief system
Two years ago a technology called "virtualisation" started
generating hype, but many have since woken up to the reality that
virtualisation is no panacea.
LifeBook, abridged
Fujitsu's LifeBook U1010 takes the concept of a portable computer to the extreme.
Making communications technology more social
Technology helps us communicate but is it cutting out too much of
the chitchat that makes us human? Phatic technology aims to make
communicating more social.
Medical tests for new technology
The health system is on the verge of a wave of technology reform
that can help aleviate the pressures associated with chronic
shortages of beds, nurses and money.
Question Time
Q I have a firewall router from my office and thought of setting this up at home.
The big money in mobile gaming
With most mobile phones now running flash, a massive new platform
has emerged for videogame developers. And as mobile gaming catches
on, the industry is cashing in.
The science of playability
One of the pioneers of lab-based playability testing for video games is in the process of setting up two Australian facilities.
