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Article | 10/08/2007 Restraint urged to allow Internet capacity to grow

Growth in Internet traffic, especially from burgeoning video Web sites and peer-to-peer usage, will put more pressure on network managers to handle th...

Article | 10/08/2007 Phishing researcher 'targets' the unsuspecting

If he weren't so ethical, Markus Jakobsson could be a world-class online fraudster. In a way, he already is.

Article | 9/08/2007 Open source friendly IIS 7.0 sets sights on Apache

Web server survey site Netcraft's recent report may have indicated Microsoft's IIS is gaining ground over the venerable open source Apache HTTP server...

Article | 9/08/2007 People-focused search engine launched

<a href="http://www.spock.com/">Spock.com</a>, a new search engine focused on finding people by crawling social networking sites such as MySpace.com a...

Article | 10/08/2007 Wanted: Facebook app developers

With an excess of 34 million regular users and about 15 billion page views per month, the world's hottest social networking site could be a marketer's...

Article | 9/08/2007 Google News to allow people in stories to add comments

Google News is adding a new feature that will allow people involved in news stories to add their comments to the Web page.

Article | 9/08/2007 IDC: Emerging technologies to boost security solution sales

Emerging business technologies will fuel the security solutions market to double-digit compound annual growth rate of about $US1.6 billion by 2011, ac...

Article | 3/08/2007 BLACK HAT - Researchers flag VOIP exploits at Black Hat

Security consultancy iSec Partners this week detailed half a dozen ways to compromise VoIP-based phone systems based on the H.323 and Inter Asterisk e...

Article | 2/08/2007 Risky business: using Web apps over Wi-Fi

People who use online e-mail or social-networking sites at Wi-Fi hotspots could risk having their accounts hijacked.

Article | 2/08/2007 Social networking quickly taking global hold

The use of social networking sites worldwide has grown substantially in the past year, with some sites seeing total visits increase as much as 270 per...

Article | 31/07/2007 Meet Web 2.0's evil twin

The move towards Web 2.0 technologies may well be another race between functionality and security, and for now at least, security seems to be at the t...

Article | 27/07/2007 Microsoft's Ballmer asks investors for patience

Microsoft's CEO emphasized the importance of attracting talent and urged shareholders to be patient with the amount of time it might take the company ...

Article | 25/07/2007 Facebook tries to fend off copyright-infringement claim

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will defend against copyright-infringement allegations on Wednesday, when his lawyers ask a judge to dismiss a compla...

Article | 25/07/2007 Virgin offers 'triple play' wireless broadband

Virgin Mobile Australia has launched Virgin Broadband, a broadband Internet package which it says is geared for the average household.

Article | 23/07/2007 Google invests in mobile base station vendor

Femtocells, an emerging technology for improving cellular coverage in homes and enterprises, have attracted the interest of none other than Google.

Article | 20/07/2007 Firefox developers sell Parakey startup to Facebook

Social networking site Facebook has bought Parakey, a tiny startup that had been developing software it bills as a Web-based operating system.

Article | 20/07/2007 IEEE 802.20 changes rules to prevent steamrolling

The working group for the emerging IEEE 802.20 mobile broadband standard, which was suspended last year after a fight over members' real company affil...

Article | 19/07/2007 Former spammer: 'I know I'm going to hell'

"Ed," a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pull...

Article | 17/07/2007 Google picked as top e-commerce development

It probably comes as no surprise that Google was selected as the number one development in e-commerce over the past 10 years by the Software & Informa...

Article | 17/07/2007 Microsoft researchers show off wireless projects

Microsoft Research workers showed off some of their projects, including several that find new uses for mobile phones, on Monday at a summit in Redmond...