Thursday | 8 January, 2009
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Happy birthday, Sputnik! (Thanks for the Internet)
Fifty years ago, on Oct. 4, 1957, radio-transmitted beeps from the first man-made object to orbit the Earth stunned and frightened the US, and the country's reaction to the "October surprise" changed computing forever.
Although Sputnik fell from orbit just three months after launch, it marked the beginning of the Space Age, and in the US, it produced angst bordering on hysteria.
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Dimension Data, La Trobe University and Windows Server 2008 partner to improve compliance
La Trobe University partnered with Dimension Data to deploy Windows Server 2008 and Network Access Protection technology to improve their existing network security solution.
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