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Article | 19/09/2007 Telstra lashes out at government for being "so last century"

Telstra today accused the Howard Government of punishing 1.5 million Australian shareholders by putting politics ahead of policy in the lead up to the...

Article | 19/09/2007 Google adds presentations app to hosted suite

Google plans to add a presentations application to its Web applications suite this week, delivering on a promise made in April. The suite, until now k...

Article | 19/09/2007 Apple sets UK iPhone debut for Nov. 9

Apple will partner with U.K. mobile carrier O2 when it rolls out the iPhone in Great Britain on Nov. 9, the company said on Tuesday. Contrary to specu...

Article | 18/09/2007 Nokia targets businesses with shiny dual-mode E51

Nokia released on Tuesday the newest addition to its E-series lineup of mobile phones for businesses, revamping the user interface for easier navigati...

Article | 19/09/2007 Mozilla fixes QuickTime flaw in Firefox

Mozilla has fixed a critical bug in the way the Firefox browser works with QuickTime media files.

Article | 18/09/2007 Credit card details still number one target for online crims

Australians are most at risk from malicious online attacks targeting their credit card details, followed by bank and email account information, reveal...

Article | 18/09/2007 New York Times to stop charging for online content

Two years after The New York Times Co. started charging for access to some content on its Web site, the Gray Lady is changing tack and will make the c...

Article | 18/09/2007 Hackers leak antipiracy vendor's e-mails to Net

Thousands of e-mails detailing the operations of MediaDefender, a company hired by movie studios and record labels to flood file-sharing networks with...

Article | 18/09/2007 Malware becoming more sophisticated, warns IBM

IBM has reported an increase in malware volume and sophistication as part of its security statistics report for the first half of the year.

Article | 18/09/2007 Yahoo to buy Zimbra

Yahoo has agreed to buy Zimbra, a privately held company whose Web hosted collaboration and messaging suite is considered a successful example of the ...

Article | 17/09/2007 Database hack thorn in Roses Only side

A potential database breach of the online florist, Roses Only, may have resulted in the theft of sensitive information, including customers credit car...

Article | 17/09/2007 Google applauds ISO vote, voices OOXML concerns

Google, which has been less vocal than some on the furor surrounding the standards process for Microsoft's Office Open XML, came out Friday in support...

Article | 14/09/2007 Chilli increase Wireless Internet speeds and data limits

Faster speeds and increased data quotas make plans more attractive

Article | 14/09/2007 Report: Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new Mash service

As if Yahoo didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unann...

Article | 14/09/2007 Virtual worlds making artificial intelligence apps 'smarter'

An artificial intelligence company next month will unveil plans for a program that will help its AI software "learn" by interacting with humans in vir...

Article | 14/09/2007 Optus silent on cable speed boost

Optus is now 'considering its upgrade options' after Telstra unveiled its new 30Mbps cable service Telstra unveiled in Sydney and Melbourne on Tuesday...

Article | 14/09/2007 Study reveals huge disparity between news sites

The topics covered by mainstream news sites are "markedly different" from those on sites that allow users to determine what is newsworthy, according t...

Article | 14/09/2007 Microsoft forces Messenger upgrade for 'security' reasons

Microsoft is forcing Windows Live and MSN Messenger users to upgrade to the newest version due to a security update included in that release, accordin...

Article | 14/09/2007 Group releases free iPhone unlock hack

A hacker group released a free, open-source unlock for Apple's iPhone late Tuesday, just a day after a commercial company started selling something si...

Article | 14/09/2007 Year-old QuickTime bug gives hackers new drive-by attack

A year-old bug in QuickTime that when paired with Firefox allows hackers to hijack PCs and Macs now has Mozilla scrambling for a fix, the company's ch...