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Discovering a big Hollywood star these days is easy to do, but astronomers have a more difficult time when they try to locate really big stars. However, astronomers recently succeeded at discovering the largest star in the Universe. Called R136a1, it is about 265 times more massive than our Sun.

We keep hearing that security is one of the main factors discouraging cloud adoption, but are these concerns well founded?

Cloud is widely tipped as the next - even the current - big thing in IT. But is everyone talking about the same thing?

REANNZ, the Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand, has abandoned fixed phones, given all 15 staff iPhones and signed a deal with Vodafone NZ covering all its internal telecommunications services.

Kogan continues to diversify its range of low-cost consumer electronics. The latest addition is a $189 ebook reader.

Nokia Siemens Networks has been awarded, provisionally, a $US7 billion eight year contract to build and manage a 40,000 base station LTE network that will cover 92 percent of the US population.

The University of NSW will launch on 22 July a new post-graduate course in network systems architecture developed in conjunction with Cisco and designed to equip students for roles in the National Broadband Network and cloud computing.

Local software company Attache has launched a guide which it is currently selling for $99 to help small and medium enterprises better harness technology and improve their business performance.