Affordable LCD Monitors From Samsung Samsung has unveiled a new line of LCD monitors that comes with a power saving feature and wide viewing angle at an affordable price.

Panasonic Telephone Connects To IP Camera IPL Communications will be distributing a new Panasonic IP phone that can be connected to an IP camera permanently, allowing users to keep an eye on key locations from their desks.

New Fujitsu Notebook Fits In Your Pocket Fujitsu launched an ultra mobile PC that fits inside a pocket or a bag. This handheld PC runs on Windows 7, weighs less than 500 grams, and includes multi-touch support.

Control 4 Talks Energy Management to OZ Utilities Days after Intel admitted that it was in talks with Australian utility companies regarding the supply of new Atom-based ?smart energy controllers? for Australian homes, leading US Company Control4, which is a major supplier of control technology to the US hospitality industry, has admitted that it is also talking to Australian utility companies about energy management.

Lenovo Refreshes ThinkPad Line Lenovo has announced four new ThinkPad PCs, the T410s, T410 and T510 laptops and the W510 mobile workstation that uses the new Intel Core dual-core processors.

Lenovo Desktop PCs Now Made Faster Lenovo launched two new desktop PCs that run on the new Intel i5 and i7 processors. Aimed at large businesses, these PCs come with enhanced security, manageability, and flexibility features.

Lenovo Unveils $999 Business Notebooks Lenovo has partnered with AMD for the launch of two $999 notebooks aimed at small- to medium-sized business customers.

Wireless Hitachi Tablet For Presentations The new Hitachi wireless tablet is aimed at educators and businesses who want to allow other users to interact and participate during presentations.

Panasonic Whiteboards Now With Audio Panasonic announced three new Elite Panaboard electronic whiteboards that come with an integrated stereo sound system, text and graphic capabilities, and rugged screen.

Lenovo Unveils Multi-Touch Notebook Two of Lenovo notebooks will now have a multi-touch screen which can be used with the touch function in Windows 7.

Monster 256GB USB Flash Drive Revealed Users can now store thousands of files on their USB drive as Kingston launches the world?s first 256GB USB drive.

Panasonic Improves Tough Notebooks Panasonic has unveiled a new line of ruggedized notebooks that claim to have a brighter screen, increased battery life and storage space, faster processing speeds, and enhanced user interface.

Kensington Goes For Netbook Market Kensington has launched a new range of accessories for netbooks in an effort to strengthen and expand its portfolio. The new line includes a compact mouse, a security lock, and a reversible case.

A Medical Tablet That Assists Doctors Pioneer Computers has released a tablet PC that will help health care professionals get easier access to patient information.

Intel Flash-Based Drives For Servers Intel has begun shipping its solid-state drive (SSD) aimed at server, workstation and storage systems.

Apple Updates OS X To Kill Bugs Apple has released Mac OS X 10.5.5 to fix nearly 70 bugs and other vulnerabilities, including several in the services that synchronize Macs with other Macs, iPhones and Palm PDAs.

Ingram Micro & Dell Warn Of IT Meltdown This morning two of the worlds biggest computer vendors, Dell and Ingram Micro, are warning that demand for IT products was weakening, which in turn would hurt both corporate and consumer spending.

Intel Hits AMD For Six With New Chip Intel has unveiled the Xeon 7400 family of server processors, (code-named Dunnington), including one that is a six-core design.

Google Releases First Patch For Chrome Google has issued an update for its new Chrome browser, following a critical security flaw found by Vietnamese security researchers.

Intel Serves Up Green Chips Just weeks before Intel will launch its six-core Dunnington processors, the company has unveiled four new low-power Xeon chips.

IBM Invents Super Fast 4TB SSD IBMs Quicksilver SSD is a replacement for spinning disks, by using faster and more reliable solid-state drives, with the result being a 4.1TB SSD that is 250 times faster than the world's fastest disk solution, according to techradar.com.

Microsoft Small Business Server Out Soon According to reports, Microsoft Small Business Windows Server (SBS) 2008 is due to be released by early November.

LG PC Monitor Claimed To Be Worlds Greenest According to reports, the LG Flatron W2252TE 22-inch LCD monitor, touted to be the world's most energy-efficient monitor has had its energy consumption measured and found to be 19.4 watt--a figure is less than half of what a Dell or Acer monitor consumes, which is about 45-50 watts approximately.

AMD Releases Worlds Fastest Graphics Cards AMD has announced the world?s fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, designed for advancing visual computing ever closer to eye-definition computing gaming and cinematic experiences and delivering a massive 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power.

Microsoft Gets Gold Medal For Olympic Stuff Up According to a report in macdailynews.com, at the exact moment famous Chinese gymnast Li Ning was rounding the lip of the Bird's Nest during the amazing torch-lighting climax at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, the Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD) appeared amongst the Nest's steel twigs.

iPhone VoIP App Released Today Swedish company Global IP Solutions (GIPS) has announced that it has developed an enabling voice over IP (VoIP) application for the Apple iPhone 3G.

Apple Becomes The Rich Mans Choice According to the latest research by NPD, on average Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users. The analyst firms data showed that in June the average cost for a Windows laptop was $US700, compared to $US1515 for an Apple equivalent.

Malware Invoices & Viral Packages Flooding SMB Inboxes Many small businesses wrongly believe that they're too insignificant to attract hackers and spend too little time on security but according to Secure Computing, since the beginning of July there are steady waves of mass-mailings hitting inboxes with fake invoices.

Google This--Rival Search Engine Launched Today According to AFP, in 2004 Google thought that engineer Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so good it bought the technology to upgrade its own system.

Filtered ISPs Make Senator Conroy Breathe Easy Only days after hundreds of Australian businesses are still trying to untangle themselves from the so-called UPS parcel virus, Federal Communications Senator Stephen Conroy has welcomed news ?advances in filtering technology?.

Australians Want More Wireless Says Optus Internet Protocol (IP)-based networks and wireless broadband are assuming greater strategic importance as organisations look to leverage their IP investments to enable greater productivity, flexibility and collaboration, according to the 2008 Optus IP Index released recently.

Conroy to Telcos: Play Fair Or Risk Intervention Speaking in Sydney at the Australian Communications and Media Authority & Communications Alliance Consumer Dialogue, Federal Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy said that internet providers must play by the rules or they risk federal government intervention.

Windows Live Messenger For BlackBerry Has Landed According to the RIM BlackBerry website, it looks like the world's most popular instant messaging network can now be accessed on most popular smartphone.

Intel Decides To Slash & Burn Chip Prices By 31% A week seems a long time in IT as was shown by Intel, which after posting a healthy profit last week has now decided to seriously slash the prices of its server and desktop processors.

Has Microsoft Invented The LCD Killer? LCD screens have plenty of advantages?they are relatively cheap; they consume less power than plasma displays and have good resolutions.

1 Website Infected Every 3.5 Seconds The latest research from security vendor Sophos highlights, what it claims is the worsening state of security on the web.

Hard Drive Encryption Not All Its Cracked Up To Be According to researchers at the University of Washington, PC users using encryption software to keep part of a computer's hard drive private, may be fooling themselves.

Dirty Dozen Spammers Exposed As 1 In 28 Emails Prove Dodgy IT security and control firm Sophos has published its report on the latest trends in spam, and revealed the top twelve spam-relaying countries for the second quarter of 2008.

Telstra Free Laptop Deal To Continue According to reports, Telstra has extended its free laptop offer following what the telco says was a 'huge response from customers'.

Banks Beware! -- WWW Found To Have Fatal Flaw According to a number of overseas reports, Internet industry heavyweights are trying to fix a flaw in the foundation of the Internet that could allow hackers to control traffic on the worldwide web.

Samsung Starts 128Gb SSD Production Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of solid-state drives (SSDs) with a 128 Gb capacity and says it will begin production of a 256 Gb drive later this year, the company said.

Will Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Mean The End Of Ninemsn? Two months ago, Microsoft was so desperate to buy up Yahoo!, it offered to buy the entire company for $US33 a share, or a total of $US47.5 billion. Although this was deemed not enough for Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang.

Rudd Government To Review Its Own Online Security The Attorney-General Robert McClelland and the Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Senator Stephen Conroy today announced a whole-of-government review of e-security.

Samsung Warns Of NAND Flash Drought According to overseas report, Samsung is warning that there may be a NAND flash memory drought after Apple placed a massive order.

Toshiba Rolls Out 3 More Notebooks In its mega roll out of some 32 new notebooks since April, Toshiba has unveiled a new range of consumer notebooks, to include the latest innovative design and mobile computing technologies and are available at retail outlets now.

Adobe Rolls Out Web-Based Rich Media Search Adobe Systems has announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).

Apple iPhone Hit With Lawsuit Typhoon Its not all good news for Apple, as its iPhone, iPod touch, and soon to be released iPhone 3G are all set to be star witnesses in a massive lawsuit brought about by a vendor that claims its copyright has been infringed.

Asus Eee PC To Come With Bigger Keyboards According to digitimes.com, Asustek Computer is planning to launch two new Eee PC models, the 904 and 905, which will have an 8.9-inch panel but use a keyboard as big as the company's 10.2-inch models.

Microsoft Says Goodbye To Windows XP For Good As of close of business this afternoon, Microsoft will stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers, regardless of protests from a swathe of PC users who don't want to be forced into using Vista.

HP Says Too Many Changes Cause IT Risks HP has released the results of a global survey of 1,125 IT professionals from 20 countries, revealing their views about IT risk and how it relates to business risk.