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Article | 13/12/2007 Blackberry rollout stalled over work/life balance debate

A federal government department stalled the distribution of a new fleet of BlackBerries following fears the devices would have a negative impact on th...

Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft yanks free Vista, Office offer

Microsoft on Tuesday withdrew an offer of free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 in exchange for consumers agreeing to install monitori...

Article | 13/12/2007 Cisco creates Entertainment Operating System

Cisco Systems made its biggest foray yet into the entertainment and social networking world by announcing plans late Tuesday for the Cisco Entertainme...

Article | 13/12/2007 Most HP, Compaq notebooks ship with code bugs

Nearly two-dozen different laptop models sold by Hewlett-Packard Co. ship with software plagued with multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, security resea...

Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft ends year by patching 11 bugs

Microsoft released seven security bulletins this week that patch 11 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and other part...

Article | 13/12/2007 Led Zeppelin clips may be hard to wipe off YouTube

YouTube's technology for finding videos posted without the copyright holder's permission may be useless to identify footage posted to the site from Le...

Article | 12/12/2007 Free MacBooks underpin live success for indie rocker

A little bit of chutzpah has gone a long way for one musician. Concert goers at last weekend's Homebake music festival in Sydney were the latest to fi...

Article | 12/12/2007 DNS attack could signal Phishing 2.0

Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims...

Article | 12/12/2007 Firefox 3.0 beta 2 due by year's end

Mozilla said developers have handed off the second beta of Firefox 3.0 to internal testing, and will ship the next preview of the open-source browser ...

Article | 12/12/2007 Microsoft security patches focus on client bugs

Microsoft has released its monthly set of security patches, fixing critical flaws in the Windows desktop.

Article | 11/12/2007 Oops! Skype forgets to tell users of bug or patch job

Skype on Monday blamed an "unintentional communication oversight" for not notifying users a month ago that it had patched the Windows version of its v...

Article | 8/12/2007 Downloadable content coming to Wii next year?

RedOctane says it's working to release downloadable songs for Guitar Hero III on Wii -- what would be a first for the console that lacks large storage...

Article | 11/12/2007 Exploit menaces media players from Microsoft, AOL

Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft and AOL, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (cod...

Article | 11/12/2007 Mobile Linux group releases first specification

While Google's Linux mobile phone platform, Android, has been stealing the spotlight, another longer-standing mobile Linux group is also moving ahead....

Article | 7/12/2007 Porn treasure trove unearthed: Aussie pirates pay $1.35 million

A concurrent raid on two adult stores in Sydney has lead to the discovery of a large scale adult movie piracy operation, and has resulted in a payment...

Article | 7/12/2007 Researchers hack and crack Microsoft wireless keyboards

Weak encryption used by Microsoft's wireless keyboards can be cracked in a matter of moments, a pair of Swiss security researchers said this week, giv...

Article | 5/12/2007 Movie director slams Microsoft over supporting HD DVD

Director Michael Bay criticized Microsoft's "dirty secret" in backing HD DVD saying the real agenda is to eventually move towards digital downloads.

Article | 5/12/2007 Microsoft delays free content to Silver members

As both Sony and Nintendo further develop their free online gaming networks, Microsoft is further limiting features of non-paying Xbox Live members.

Article | 6/12/2007 Man sentenced to 110 years for hacking, extortion

A North Carolina man last week was sentenced to 110 years in prison after admitting that he and a co-conspirator hacked into computers used by young g...

Article | 6/12/2007 Big brands slip up in antivirus tests

Many big-brand security products fail to spot commonly-circulating malware, testing outfit has Virus Bulletin found in its latest tests.