When I first start reporting on HR issues, one recruitment agency likened the process to a marriage bureau or dating agency. It was the turn of the century, the tech boom was on and candidates only had to have so many skills for the jobs available; a decent, but not complete, match. Employers were easygoing, and seemed keen to score.

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Skills shortage: companies being too picky?

Portal found a way of taking automated gun turrets and turning them into something adorable . That's why we were super excited when we saw that someone had built a working one in real life

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Portal turret comes alive in robot project

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is set to continue its legal action against Apple and its "4G" iPad, despite the fact that the company renamed the device in Australia. (My Trusty Gavel image by Brian Turner , CC2.0 ) The ACCC started a legal campaign against Apple in March over the company's use of the term "4G" to describe the connectivity capabilities of the new iPad.

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iPad rebrand won't save Apple: ACCC

Over the weekend, lawyers for both Oracle and Google filed several motions that could either speed up the case at the US District Court of Northern California, or plunge it into a much longer, messier trial.

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Oracle-Google: wilful infringement battle looms

Apple's next generation of MacBook Pros will be unveiled at next month's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), according to a new report. (Credit: Apple) Adding to claims made by 9to5Mac overnight, Bloomberg now says that Apple will take the wraps off thinner Mac notebooks that feature Retina displays and Flash memory at its developer-centric show next month. Citing multiple unnamed sources, Bloomberg says that the new MacBook Pros will be less than 0.95 inches thick and sport Intel's third-generation Core series chips, codenamed Ivy Bridge

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Thin MacBook Pro incoming: reports

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has designed a benign virus that builds up an electric charge, in a new approach to motion-powered personal electronics and energy harvesting. Press one for free energy.

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Virus could lead to motion-powered gadgets

A new deal between the NSW Government and Metronode will see over 100 datacentre facilities currently in use by the state consolidated into two datacentres by year's end. (Credit: Luke Hopewell) Metronode, a subsidiary of Leighton Contractors, has been awarded a contract to build two new, Tier III datacentre facilities in western Sydney and the Illawarra region before the end of 2012.

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NSW awards datacentre consolidation deal

Yahoo has announced Genome , a data-intensive advertising system designed to help marketers navigate the wilds of the "big-data landscape" on the way to more precise ad targeting and personalisation. Genome is designed to pull together Yahoo data with third-party data from Interclick and first-party data from advertisers, while also making sense of heaps and heaps of less-structured information.

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Yahoo tackles big data with Genome

ZDNet Australia is proud to bring you a serialised version of Phil Dobbie's novel The Incumbent . A new chapter will be published here as part of his blog each week on Tuesday. You can also buy the entire book by clicking here .

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The Incumbent: Chapter 31

The controversial "one-click buy" patent, which Telstra and Amazon have fought over for more than a decade, looks set to finally be resolved within the next month. (Credit: Luke Hopewell/ZDNet Australia) Amazon's one-click buy facility speeds up transactions by using pre-filled payment and shipping information, to avoid a customer re-entering this information for every purchase

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Amazon, Telstra patent battle nears end