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    Yahoo revenue drops, but profits rise 8 percent in Q2 22/07/2009 09:23:00

    Less ad revenue led to the decline, but overall the company fared better than analysts had predicted
    Yahoo on Tuesday reported second-quarter revenue of US$1.57 billion, down 13 percent from a year earlier as companies continued to spend less on advertising.
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    Google pegs browser as future of mobile apps 17/07/2009 05:51:00

    Even Google can't afford to write applications for all mobile platforms, an executive says
    Browsers are the future of mobile applications and they are just beginning to gain the features that will make new uses of mobile phones compelling, a Google executive said Thursday.
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    Google scrubs Apps clean of beta labels 08/07/2009 04:35:00

    The move is intended to calm concerns among IT managers and CIOs
    Google will drop the "beta" label from Gmail, Calendar, Docs and Talk in one fell swoop on Tuesday to rid its Apps communication and collaboration suite of this problematic tag that spooks many IT managers and CIOs.
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    Yahoo aims at customization with new home page 26/06/2009 05:08:00

    The new version is due out later this year and will sport a cleaner, more open look, CEO Carol Bartz says
    When Yahoo rolls out the new version of its Yahoo.com home page later this year, people will be able to customize it to such a degree that the need for the company's My Yahoo personalized home page service will drop significantly.
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    Google to promote Web speed on new developer site 24/06/2009 06:52:00

    The company hopes the site will lead to faster Web applications, sites and browsers
    Google has created a Web site for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster.
Features
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    Safari 4 browser beta is innovative, fast, fun 27/02/2009 09:39:00

    It offers a lot more than slick UI goodies; it's stable and smart, too
    Apple's decision to offer a public beta of its new Safari 4 Web browser -- available for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista -- caught the tech world by surprise. Even more surprising are the number of innovative features it offers, including in-your-face browser interface advances, under-the-hood updates for notably speedy rendering performance, and open-standards compliance.
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    Don't be fooled by Google's phony 'beta' label 17/02/2009 08:43:00

    What do 'beta' and 'experimental' mean when they're making money just the same?
    A typical release cycle for software development includes something called the beta-testing phase. The idea is to improve the product by enabling users, rather than developers or professional testers, to provide feedback.
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    Rich Internet apps that double as desktop apps 03/02/2009 09:15:00

    RIAs can make Web browsers as responsive as desktop applications. We look at four technologies that cross the online gap.
    Finding a single development environment for all purposes has so far proven an unattainable goal. But with the advent of rich Internet applications (RIA), development nirvana gets a bit closer.
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    Internet Explorer 8 RC1: almost ready to roll 27/01/2009 07:07:00

    Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft's IE8 offers faster performance, better searches, more security and enough stability to be truly useful.
    The just-released Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of Internet Explorer 8 is a fast, stable browser, tweaked for productivity and security, with few obvious changes over the previous Beta 2 release.
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    Finding music online and driving IMAP 16/01/2009 10:10:00

    A collection of cool tools including Radiotracker and IMAP Tools.
    A couple of cool things that have caught my eye over the last few weeks.
Opinions
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    TinyURL outage trips up Twitterers 09/03/2009 08:38:00

    With TinyURL, it's reassuring to see a major Internet service that still looks like it's being run from a dorm room.
    "TinyURL is experiencing temporary dificulties." Yes, that's "dificulties."
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    Projection: IE's Days of Domination Are Numbered 03/02/2009 10:17:00

    Current trends reveal IE's reign as king of the browsers is quickly coming to an end.
    Microsoft may be nearly ready to release Internet Explorer 8, but if current trends are any indication, IE's reign as king of the browsers is quickly coming to an end.
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    Ogg and friends challenge Flash 29/01/2009 06:09:00

    Ogg Theora may technologically revolutionize online video, but to succeed in the market it's got a long, hard battle ahead of it.
    Mozilla has given US$100,000 to improve and develop Ogg Theora, an open source video codec being developed by the Xiph.org Foundation. Wikimedia will disburs funds over a six-month period. Although not the best-known video format, Ogg already has some major support from web developers. Theora will be built into Firefox 3.1, which is currently in Beta 2, as well as into Norway's homegrown browser Opera. Theora is also the video format of choice for all Wikimedia Foundation projects.
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    How IPv6 is like the US financial crisis 02/10/2008 10:38:00

    Just like the US Treasury Department, the IPv6 planners have missed key points in their rush to solve the address depletion crisis.
    Not long ago, the powers-that-be detected an impending crisis. To resolve it, they rushed into action crafting a proposal that represented an unprecedented upheaval of existing infrastructure. On the grounds that "something needed to be done" to avert the crisis, they brushed aside objections that the upheaval was too convulsive and might nonetheless fail to address the underlying issues that had created the crisis in the first place.
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    Google has gone and redefined 'beta' 30/09/2008 10:56:00

    22 out of Google's 49 products are in beta, including such established stalwarts as Gmail, Google Docs and Google Finance.
    The question of why so many Google products are classified "beta" -- and classified thusly for so long -- has knocked around the tech press for some time. However, no one really seemed to know the answer, at least no one outside of Google.
Interviews
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    Networking veteran launches unique auction site 10/06/2008 10:53:50

    In a case of eBay in reverse, a new site sees the seller bidding for the business of the buyer
    The quest to find a good price on a high-definition television can be a frustrating and confusing experience. For most people, the process concludes with the purchase of a brand-new TV set. For Mukesh Chatter, that was just the beginning.
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    Yahoo's BrowserPlus to boost Web app platform 02/06/2008 09:12:05

    Yahoo offers a development platform for building Web apps with desktop capabilities
    Yahoo last week announced it is working on BrowserPlus, a development platform for creating Web applications that contain desktop capabilities.
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    A Google 'stalker' deconstructs the secrets to its success 08/04/2008 10:39:38

    A self-described 'Google stalker' examines the secrets to its success and explains how you can emulate it
    Educators used to follow the auto industry because that's where all the lessons came from, says Bala Iyer. Then it was Microsoft. Now it's Google. In this month's Harvard Business Review, Iyer, an associate professor of technology operations and information management at Babson College, looked deep into Google's DNA to discern what makes it an innovation machine. Iyer talked with Kathleen Melymuka about what he and co-author Thomas H. Davenport discovered.
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    Oxer on hardware hacking and the meaning of (Second) Life 14/02/2008 08:52:19

    What happens when you knock down the boundaries between the real and virtual world?
    Jonathan Oxer is technical director of a Web application development company called Internet Vision Technologies and for the past couple of years has been president of the Linux Australia community group. At January's Linux.conf.au in Melbourne he presented a tutorial entitled Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining Second Life to the Real World. Computerworld recently spoke to Oxer about how he is knocking down the boundaries between the real and virtual world. Oxer also sheds light on his how his lifetime obsession with electronics has transformed his home-life into a software controlled environment.
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    Technorati CEO sees opportunity in the changing Web 11/02/2008 09:10:03

    In an interview, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra talks about executive upheaval, expansion plans, and the future of the company
    When Richard Jalichandra became Technorati's CEO in October, the company, a blogging and Web 2.0 pioneer, had generated enough drama in recent years to rival a soap opera.
Tutorials
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    Five blog search tools beat Googling five different ways 31/01/2009 09:56:00

    Google's basic search isn't the best way to search the Internet specifically for blog posts.
    If you're searching the Internet specifically for blog posts, Google's basic search isn't the best way to do it. Not only will your results be cluttered with non-blog pages, they'll will be skewed toward sites like The Huffington Post that have figured out how to win at search engine optimization to get to the top of Google's results. Google Blog Search is a much better tool for the job. It lets you sort results by a relevance score, or sort by date to display the newest posts.
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    Publish photo albums on the Web with Porta 20/01/2009 08:52:00

    If you'd like to create photo albums on the Web, you won't find a simpler way to do it than using Porta.
    If you'd like to create photo albums on the Web, you won't find a simpler way to do it than using Porta. With a click or two, you'll be able to create completely formatted HTML-based albums, ready for the Web. To make the album live, upload its entire folder on your hard disk to your Web site. That's all it takes. It doesn't even require money.
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    Create Gorgeous Galleries with Jalbum 17/01/2009 12:20:00

    Jalbum is an easy-to-use freebie which can take folders of images and easily turn them into an online gallery
    Jalbum is an easy-to-use freebie which can take folders of images on your hard disk and turn them into a sophisticated, attractive, online gallery with just a few mouse clicks. If you sign up at the vendor's site, you even get 30 megabytes of space free, with an easy to remember URL (yourname.jalbum.net). Pretty cool.
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    Get the skinny on IP addresses with IPNetInfo 06/01/2009 06:42:00

    Give this free tool an address you see in a URL, e-mail header or other location, and it will quickly return available registration information for it.
    IPNetInfo is a small and focused network tool that can be a big help if you want to get information about an IP address, the string of numbers that computers use to locate each other on the Internet. Give this free tool an address you see in a URL, e-mail header or other location, and it will quickly return available registration information for it.
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    How to add Flash to your website 07/08/2008 16:42:34

    Add photos, videos and MP3s to your site
    Flash animation gives websites pizzazz. It's used for video and other moving graphics, as well as non-static adverts. Flash is an excellent way of adding a little something extra to your site and making it stand out from the crowd.
Buying Guides
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    Broadband Internet 27/11/2007 10:25:48

    For the majority of those looking to upgrade to broadband Internet for the business or home, it's all about the extra speed.
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    Domain Names 02/09/2005 17:08:24

    Running a business and want to promote yourself online? You need a domain name.
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    Messaging Server 18/10/2002 11:53:31

    Read this guide to understand how e-mail works and how it folds into the broader capabilities of today's messaging and collaboration platforms.
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