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Article | 29/09/2007 Internet blackout in Myanmar stalls citizen reporting

The loss of Internet access in Myanmar has slowed the tide of photos and videos shared with the rest of the world but people outside of the troubled c...

Article | 29/09/2007 Google buys assets of mobile phone social network Zingku

Google Friday confirmed that it has acquired Zingku, a mobile social networking company geared toward teenagers and young adults, another in a series ...

Article | 28/09/2007 Internet link raises visibility of Myanmar protests

The ability of citizens in Myanmar to keep connected to the world via the Internet could make a substantial difference to the outcome of the current p...

Article | 28/09/2007 CSIRO patent threat to 802.11n may be overblown

A patent claim by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation would probably not sink the IEEE 802.11n standard, according to som...

Article | 28/09/2007 D-Link promotes power-saving switches

D-link has announced Ethernet desktop switches that, it claims, use up to 44 percent less power than existing 5-port switches. It said it was the firs...

Article | 28/09/2007 Antiphishing feature added to Engate e-mail security

Engate Technology Thursday announced a version of its antispam software that the company says includes the industry's first preemptive protection agai...

Article | 27/09/2007 Sound off: Is your wireless network a security breach waiting to happen?

The security threat posed by wireless networks has been a hot-button issue for years now. Are they still a prime target for hackers?

Article | 27/09/2007 Sound off: Why worry about wireless?

Want wireless security? Fine, click the WPA2 button during your router setup, enter a key, change the default log-on, and you're good.

Article | 27/09/2007 Sound off: Why you need wireless protection

If you've got a wireless network at home or at your business and don't take special care to protect it, well, you're playing Russian roulette -- and t...

Article | 27/09/2007 DEMO 07 - No, not another Microsoft killer

What would DEMO '07, or any high tech show for that matter, be without loud music and a light show for the daily opening of the conference? DEMOfall c...

Article | 27/09/2007 Channel 7 to buy Unwired for $127m

Rumours that Channel 7 was to buy Unwired were confirmed this morning with the company announcing a $127 million offer for the wireless Internet servi...

Article | 27/09/2007 DEMO 07 - Show launches with video innovators

The lights go down, the noise comes up, and Demo 07 is underway.

Article | 27/09/2007 DEMO 07- Enabling technologies have their day, too

Tuesday's afternoon sessions at Demo 07 in the US offered up an instructive look behind the scenes at the enabling technologies that will drive high t...

Article | 27/09/2007 Tech giants chart research goals

Power consumption, parallelism, and the rapidly-expanding world of mobile communications are among the leading areas of research and development inves...

Article | 27/09/2007 New tools help hack into iPhone

iPhone hackers have some new tools now, thanks to HD Moore, one of the developers of the Metasploit hacking software.

Article | 27/09/2007 Heading upriver, WiMax wows tech groupies in Chicago

Motorola and Sprint Nextel demonstrated mobile WiMax technology aboard a tour boat moving gracefully along the Chicago River this week, as ecstatic de...

Article | 27/09/2007 Questions remain about eBay members' info theft

Questions abound over the posting of confidential information from eBay members on one of the vendor's discussion forums, a sinister incident that has...

Article | 27/09/2007 IBM: Symphony downloaded 100,000 times in first week

People apparently are already tuning in to IBM's Symphony. The company reported Wednesday that its free rival to Microsoft's Office suite was download...

Article | 27/09/2007 Gmail zero-day flaw allows attackers to steal messages

Accounts on Google's Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past -- and future e-mail messages -- to be forwarded to the attacker's own in-box, a vu...

Article | 27/09/2007 IBM tool simplifies users' daily Web experiences

IBM has launched a free online service designed to simplify users' daily Web experiences.