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Photos: What made news five years ago this month?

ComputerCorp founder sells and laptop sales were on the rise.

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ComputerCorp CEO Hugh Smith sold the business he founded in 1987 to retire. Smith, 55, told CRN he had sold the company to private investors. In March 2006, ComputerCorp turned over in excess of $100 million per annum. The company was placed in administration in March 18, 2011.

MP3s are hot, jukeboxes are not. Music game gets flash.

IDC's research, "Fighting for a Piece of Apple's Pie" found that portable MP3 player unit shipments grew by 190.8 percent in 2005, reaching 1.95 million units. Growth was attributed to the portable flash segment, which grew by 392.4 percent in shipments in the previous year.

Telstra signed an exclusive deal with Miami-based mobile phone wholesaler Brightstar to look after the teleco’s mobile supply-chain management. The agreement ended in 2010.

Speaking at LinuxWorld in Sydney in March 2006, Department of Finance and Administration's Patrick Callioni said the OSS community could no longer blame government for its slow adoption of offerings like Linux, instead they should blame themselves.

Well… Novell signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce to supply NSW government departments with Linux software.

Microsoft was ramping up its sale strategy for the upcoming Vista operating system.

Laptop sales, back then, were on the rise.

Regulator wants ISPs to provide clean pipes.

The ACMA wanted to force ISPs and email service providers to provide spam filtering options to their subscribers.

Law enforcement to get new interception powers.

Proposed changes to the Government’s Telecommunications (Interception) Act 1979 had civil liberty groups up in arms.

A study found that consumer patience with technology had a 20 minute threshold.

Tape library vendor Quantum announced that it will expand into the storage software and disk-based markets.

Optus splashed out a $150 million for 20Mbps broadband.

IBM execs thought Australians fear innovation.

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