Today on iTWire

• ASUS Eee PC goes on sale almost everywhere Down Under
• Asus expands Eee distribution
• Stenbeck is Attachmate's new SE
• Pipe Networks' sub cable to go ahead
• iiNet first customer for Pipe's submarine cable
• Another month, another QuickTime vulnerability

Technology Deals

• Motorola to acquire mobile music distributor
• NetApp to acquire Onaro
• IBM buys XIV storage company

Science

• Astronomers hit Einsteinian jackpot
• Eestor ultracapacitor to power Lockheed Martin military applications
• Brace for impact: Collision between Smith’s Cloud and Milky Way

Technology News

• Asus expands Eee distribution
• Another month, another QuickTime vulnerability
• UK iPhone sales poor?
• IBM, Metro deliver customer-facing RFID
• Social networking sites fail users
• Intel target of New York antitrust probe

Our Blogs

• ASUS Eee PC goes on sale almost everywhere Down Under
• Review: Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
• DRM free Amazon MP3 a core threat to Apple
• Amazon signs Sony BMG for DRM-free music
• Mitsubishi Laser TV at CES 2008 - set to stun us all?
• HD DVD RIP: Universal, Paramount set to switch to Blu-ray
• Apple Store number two for Australia?
• linux.conf.au: What is Novell doing here?
• Cisco poised to enter social networking market - UPDATE
• The Road from Windows - Online email

Telecommunications

• Pipe Networks' sub cable to go ahead
• iiNet first customer for Pipe's submarine cable
• Australia-Japan Cable upgraded
• Australian Satellite Services provides broadband to more of Asia
• Primus scores $8 million refund from Telstra
• Netgear recalls 240 volt Ethernet adapters over safety issue

Technology People

• Stenbeck is Attachmate's new SE
• Tech job ads up in December
• If this is the future of IT, it's pretty bleak

VoIP feature

• "Perfect storm" sank Skype
• Skype failure explanation leaves unanswered questions
• Skype outage - is the worst over?
• NAB trusts VoIP for dealing room system
• Commander cooks up VoIP for Kleenmaid
• Enterprises winging in it with VoIP deployments
• Cisco iPhone - REVIEW
• Soul seeks resellers for Linksys VoIP platform
• Avaya & Extreme to simplify VoIP deployment for SMBs
• Telarus & Aruba offer fixed mobile convergence via VoIP over WiFi
• My Net Fone claims 35,000 paying VoIP customers
• This (Linksys) iPhone does Skype
• SoliCall promises better VoIP calls
• Trouble for Skype as ACMA moves to mandate 000 access from VoIP services
• VoIP: many different things to different people

Science

• Astronomers hit Einsteinian jackpot
• Eestor ultracapacitor to power Lockheed Martin military applications
• Brace for impact: Collision between Smith’s Cloud and Milky Way
• Stem cells produced without destroying embryo
• Historic return to planet Mercury set for January 14, 2008
• Asteroid 2007 WD5 is poor marksman: Now predicted to totally miss Mars

Technology Lifestyle

• Poo on Wii
• Queen addicted to the Wii?
• Microsoft to bypass High Def disc war with Mediaroom on Xbox 360
• Skype coming to PSP
• Microsoft sued for Xbox LIVE holiday downtime
• Epson Dreamio EMP-TW2000 high definition home theatre projector - REVIEW

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