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Article | 26/02/2008 Managing Vista security requires IT effort

Jeff Dimock, vice president of Microsoft solutions at the IT consultancy Dimension Data Americas, expects IT organizations will like Windows Vista's t...

Article | 21/02/2008 FAQ: Windows XP SP3 nears finish line

Microsoft did yet another turn-about this week and opened the newest version of Windows XP SP3 to the public. It's not final, this last service pack, ...

Article | 21/02/2008 Time to dump Windows?

The "Save XP" petition asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP available indefinitely, not end most sales on June 30 as currently planned, has prompted ma...

Article | 20/02/2008 Blu-ray beats HD DVD -- now what?

So the high-definition DVD war's over, and to the victor go the spoils.

Article | 19/02/2008 Hands-on: The MacBook Air beyond the hype

By now, you've read all about the wildly hyped MacBook Air, the slenderized version of Apple's MacBook line that looks like it's been run over by a st...

Article | 19/02/2008 Timeline: HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Disc

The high-definition movie disc battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can be traced all the way back to 2000, when companies began experimenting with ...

Article | 18/02/2008 Bad news for banner ads = good news for 'featuretisements'?

On the surface, Web advertising seems healthy. Revenue in the US last year was up 27 per cent to US$25.5 billion, according to IDC.

Article | 15/02/2008 The best new Internet hoaxes

You've been had. Some geeky guy with a bad comb-over just convinced you to click 100 times on your Gmail account to somehow tap into a Google TV beta.

Article | 15/02/2008 Office Live Small Business goes a la carte

Microsoft's Office Live Web service was designed for small businesses that needed an easy, low-cost solution for creating and hosting Web sites and bu...

Article | 14/02/2008 The best Internet Explorer add-ins

A browser by itself is a poor thing, letting you browse the Web, but little else. To get the most out of the Web, you need add-ins that give your brow...

Article | 13/02/2008 Powerful new antiphishing weapon DKIM emerges

Spoofers, spammers and phishers, beware. There's a new gun in town, and some of the Internet's most powerful companies -- including Yahoo, Google, Pa...

Article | 12/02/2008 AMD vs Intel: The future of desktop CPUs

It's the epic, age-old battle that just keeps being resurrected. Chip-giant Intel and the underdog Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) go head-to-head for de...

Article | 1/02/2008 How to buy and sell on eBay scam-free

Ask eBay users about auction fraud and payment scams, and you'll hear different stories with the same theme: While eBay can be a great marketplace, bo...

Article | 8/02/2008 Notebooks from CES coming soon to Australia's shores

The latest and hottest notebooks displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show at its full glory with the latest technology to hit our shores in the comi...

Article | 7/02/2008 10 great free downloads for your network

Got a small network, home network, medium-size network -- even an enterprise network -- and want to get the most out of it? Then I've got good news fo...

Article | 6/02/2008 Why people hate Vista

You rarely hear about a new OS causing people to panic. But IT consultant Scott Pam says that's exactly what his small-business clients are doing when...

Article | 6/02/2008 Driver problems still haunting Vista

When Steve Sinchak's new Intel network card became "really slow" after upgrading his Windows Vista PC with a pre-release version of Service Pack 1, he...

Article | 6/02/2008 Who's behind Wikipedia?

In January 2001 the English language version of Wikipedia opened for business, and was quickly followed by versions in French, German, Catalan and Swe...

Article | 5/02/2008 Hospital reaps healthy returns from wireless

Seattle's Swedish Medical Center, a three-hospital campus with more than 7,000 employees and annual revenues of US$1 billion, was mired in paper.

Article | 5/02/2008 Vista SP1 is ready -- or is it?

Just a little more than a year after its first crack at Vista, Microsoft Monday announced that Vista 2.0 -- officially Service Pack 1, or SP1 -- has g...