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India beats West Indies to keep hopes alive
India beat the West Indies by 16 runs yesterday, successfully defending a small total of 162 runs in a thrilling limited-overs tri-series match in Kuala Lumpur.

Grim for Raper as Sharks circle Stuart
THE end for Stuart Raper as Sharks coach could come as early as tonight, when the Cronulla board meets for the first time since an external review of the club's operations was completed.

More backup power than you'd ever need, right?
This small medical laboratory has a real server room, complete with a UPS that has more than seven hours of runtime. Or at least that's what the departing sysadmin tells his replacement.

Inventors try single disc for both new DVD formats
A multilayer dual optical disk would have one layer of data in the standard CD or DVD format, a second layer able to play one high-capacity format and a third layer for the competing high-capacity format.

U.S. airwaves sale grosses $13.9B
The U.S. sale of airwaves for advanced wireless services grossed a record $13.9 billion; spectrum-hungry wireless carrier T-Mobile USA and a group of cable companies were the highest bidders.

Counterpane CTO: We are losing the security war
Companies are losing the war to make their systems more secure, according to Bruce Schneier, the founder and CTO of Counterpane Internet Security Inc. He spoke at this week's Hack In The Box Security Conference.

Carrs can do the revving but Hall won't bite. Or punch. Or love tap, even
FROM Barry Hall, it was not quite an admission that the punch that felled St Kilda defender Matt Maguire in last year's preliminary final was more than the mere "love tap" his legal counsel would have had you believe. But it was close, writes Richard Hinds.

NRL to pay players to dump union
RUGBY league's working-class roots have been compromised by a secret deal between the Rugby League Professionals Association and the NRL to de-register the association as a union for an annual fee of $320,000.

Real life: Blocking kids from inappropriate Web sites
When teachers wanted to redirect students who tried to access a certain Web site, Lee Ratzan provided several different alternatives.

Supermicro pleads guilty to selling banned exports to Iran
Supermicro Computer pleaded guilty to violating an export ban by selling servers and other computer components to Iran.

Firefox variant lets users surf without a trace
A new Web browser based on Firefox changes a computer's IP address every few minutes to make Web surfing more anonymous.