Jon Brodkin - Author - PC World Australia

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Article | 18/03/2011 First look at Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft's IE9 provides a browsing experience that even Chrome and Firefox users may find compelling.

Article | 19/03/2011 Groupon could break Google's record with $25 billion IPO

Groupon is in talks with banks for an initial public offering that places the value of the company as high as $25 billion, Bloomberg and others are re...

Article | 18/03/2011 Android violates Linux license, experts claim

Google's Android mobile operating system's usage of the Linux kernel may violate open source licensing with a misappropriation of Linux code that coul...

Article | 18/03/2011 IE9 downloaded 27 times per second, but Microsoft browser share still declines

Microsoft boasted that Internet Explorer 9 was downloaded 2.35 million times, or 27 times per second, during its first 24 hours of availability this w...

Article | 12/03/2011 GNOME creator respects proprietary software, can't wait for iPad 2

"If you are not planning on getting an iPad 2 on Friday at 5 p.m., the terrorists win." So said open source icon Miguel de Icaza on his Twitter feed t...

Article | 12/03/2011 Bing-powered searches rise as Google loses share

Microsoft's Bing search engine is on the rise, while Google's still-dominant market share has dropped to about two-thirds of all U.S. searches, accord...

Article | 10/03/2011 Most Android, iPhone apps violate open source rules

Seven out of 10 Android and iOS apps that contain open source "failed to comply with basic open source license requirements," according to a new analy...

Article | 9/03/2011 Microsoft pushes more Kinect-like user interfaces

Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360 ditched handheld controllers for gestures and sound, but natural user interfaces don't have to be restricted to video ...

Article | 6/03/2011 Microsoft can't wait for IE6 to die

“Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer 6," Microsoft said this week in launching a new site that tracks the progress of pushing IE6 market s...

Article | 3/03/2011 Five new ways to build apps for iPhone, Android and Web browsers

Five start-ups unveiled services for building mobile applications and Web services this week at DEMO Spring 2011, bringing application development cap...

Article | 2/03/2011 Facebook security more important as e-mail spam levels drop

Spammers are moving on from mass e-mail blasts to targeted attacks using social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, Cisco security executive ...

Article | 1/03/2011 PHP user group lauds Microsoft's open source contributions

Microsoft has often come up short in its attempts to thaw out relations with open source communities, but the company seems to have found success with...

Article | 1/03/2011 Open source expert takes on the hardest job at Microsoft

A few months ago, Gianugo Rabellino traded his Linux and Mac PCs for a Windows 7 laptop, left the open source company he founded and moved to Redmond ...

Article | 1/03/2011 RealNetworks founder starts Facebook video chat service

The founder of RealNetworks has launched a new social video service that connects with Facebook and lets users chat with multiple friends at once.

Article | 24/02/2011 Ex-Microsoft exec becomes CEO at Parallels

Six months after leaving Microsoft to join desktop virtualization vendor Parallels, executive Birger Steen has been promoted to CEO.