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Article | 16/10/2009 Mozilla will let rival browsers run Firefox security tool

Mozilla plans to let people running rivals' browsers use Firefox's new plug-in update service, company officials said today.

Article | 16/09/2009 Going thin and bling, HP tries to strike Envy with latest laptops

Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced a half-dozen new notebook PCs today, including a luxury line that bears a striking resemblance to Apple Inc.'s laptops.

Article | 14/09/2009 Top Internet companies join forces over competitive NBN model

The heads of five of Australia’s top Internet and telecommunications companies have joined forces to call for a pro-competitive approach towards the N...

Article | 24/08/2009 ACCC calls for industry comment on fixed line services pricing

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued draft pricing principles and indicative prices for six fixed line wholesale services, wh...

Article | 17/08/2009 Illinois outlaws sex offenders from using Facebook, MySpace

The state of Illinois made it a law this week that convicted sex offenders cannot use social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.

Article | 3/08/2009 Telstra closes in on 100Gbps transmission

Telstra has been flexing its next generation muscles in a trial which could speed up the telco's existing network infrastructure between capital citie...

Article | 29/07/2009 Microsoft rushes patches to fix 'big deal' programming flaw

As promised, Microsoft today patched six vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) and Visual Studio with the first "out-of-cycle" update since it plu...

Article | 27/07/2009 Tassie towns first on NBN

The three regional Australian towns to be the first to connect to the National Broadband Network (NBN) were named at the weekend.

Article | 21/07/2009 Microsoft frees Linux drivers; other closed-source vendors to step up?

Microsoft Corp.'s move to release three of its drivers to Linux, however technically modest it may be, could put pressure on other closed-source vendo...

Article | 14/07/2009 Defence launches robot soldier competition

The Federal Government has launched a $US1.6 million competition to build a new fleet of military robots.

Article | 7/07/2009 Google Maps adds real estate app

Google has added a real estate search to its Google Maps service in Australia, letting potential home buyers view available properties across all real...

Article | 30/06/2009 Virtuoso travel network picks Liquid Computing for data center

Virtuoso Ltd., an online network for luxury travel, recently chose a unified computing infrastructure from Liquid Computing instead of shopping for su...

Article | 26/06/2009 Microsoft rebuffs Twitter protest over Outlook's rendering of HTML e-mails

Showing again the power of Twitter for quick social organizing, Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was forced to defend itself against complaints that its m...

Article | 23/06/2009 Steve Jobs back at work: reports

Apple employees at the company's US headquarters have reported that CEO Steve Jobs returned to work today.

Article | 17/02/2009 Lenovo device delivers e-mail via BlackBerrys

Business travelers will be able to use their BlackBerry smartphones to automatically forward e-mail to their ThinkPad notebook PCs with a US$150 devic...