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Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

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Paul Ockenden gets to grips with MOTOROLA’s impressive push-email system, “GOOD”- a great competitor to both Microsoft’s and Blackberry’s systems.

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David Moss resolves an iTunes problem, looks into secret folders and Windows file sharing without a central server.

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