Stories about: Take Two

Australian resident Ian Usher, 44, sold everything he owned on eBay for a little more than US$382,000 in an online auction that ended Sunday.

IBM is developing a type of memory that it says could one day be faster and more reliable than today's hard drives and flash memory.

Leaders of Microsoft's strategy to make its products more interoperable with competitive technologies said the company still hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat similar to the partnerships it's forged with Linux vendors Novell, Xandros and Linspire.

Massively-scalable Internet advertising applications may have been popularized by the likes of Google and Yahoo but local company Mooter Media has developed its own clustered architecture on top of Ubuntu Linux and open source software.

The creator of a popular Web server scripting language is so nervous about hackers stealing his personal information that he takes an unusual precaution: He launches a pair of browsers when he takes to the Internet.

The next time Bill Gates sends an e-mail through Microsoft's shiny new Wireless LAN it will be passed through a behind-the-scenes Linux-based network appliance.