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Article | 23/06/2008 Report: Google faces Android handset delays
Mobile phones designed around Google's Android software may not be available until the fourth quarter of this year, and some companies are struggling ...
Article | 23/06/2008 Patch-blocking bug also stymies Microsoft's WSUS
Just days after fixing a glitch in one of its enterprise patch-distribution tools, Microsoft said that another of its patching programs has been block...
Article | 23/06/2008 Third of IT admins admit snooping with privileged passwords
One in three IT administrators say they or one of their colleagues have used top-level admin passwords to pry into confidential or sensitive informati...
Article | 23/06/2008 Gates says goodbye to Microsoft
As Bill Gates steps down from the day to day operations at Microsoft he'll be dedicating most of his time to philanthropic efforts at the Bill and Mel...
Article | 23/06/2008 Apple opens Sydney store
Apple opened the doors to its first store in Australia and in the Southern Hemisphere last Thursday.
Article | 23/06/2008 Storm storms back with porn scam
Security researchers Friday warned of a new, massive spam campaign that tries to convince users to install the long-running Storm bot Trojan on their ...
Article | 23/06/2008 Dell, WD, Hitachi charged with violating patents in PCs, drives
Convolve last week filed a federal lawsuit this week charging that Dell, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have violated its pat...
Article | 23/06/2008 Apple does about-face, fixes Safari's 'carpet bomb' bug
Apple updated the Windows version of Safari Friday, patching four vulnerabilities, including one that prompted rival Microsoft three weeks ago to urge...
Article | 23/06/2008 Antitrust regulators scrutinizing Windows 7, IE 8
Antitrust regulators are evaluating the forthcoming Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 as part of ongoing activities to ensure Microsoft is in complian...
Article | 23/06/2008 Microsoft security fix clobbers 2 million password stealers
Microsoft's June security updates were bad news for online criminals who make their living stealing password information from online gamers.
Article | 19/06/2008 New Eee PC arrives, Linux same price as Windows
ASUS has announced the release of the new Eee PC 901 and the reduced prices of the previous 701 and 900 models.
Article | 20/06/2008 House leaders plan hearing on Google-Yahoo deal
US Congressional leaders are planning to hold a hearing this summer on the competitive and privacy concerns of a search advertising deal announced las...
Article | 20/06/2008 Weekly Tech News Update: June 20th, 2008
WiMAX ready to launch, Verizon expands FiOS, Microsoft and Nortel partner, Intel shows off a new robot, Australia gets an Apple store, Tokyo shows off...
Article | 20/06/2008 Bogus Bill Gates impersonator winding down career
Steve Sires has been impersonating Bill Gates for a decade now, and following him into retirement might not be any different.
Article | 20/06/2008 Apple accused of iPhone sex discrimination
The LA Times has accused Apple of ignoring the plight of women with its new 3G iPhone, to be launched on July 11.
Article | 20/06/2008 EBay boosts fraud protections for PayPal users
EBay has unveiled expanded protections for those buyers and sellers in its marketplace who complete transactions using the company's PayPal online pay...
Article | 20/06/2008 Mozilla downplays critical Firefox 3.0 bug
Mozilla has downplayed a threat posed by the first vulnerability reported for Firefox 3.0, telling users that the risk is "minimal."
Article | 20/06/2008 Researcher reports first Firefox 3.0 bug
Only hours after Mozilla launched the final of Firefox 3.0, a researcher sold a critical vulnerability in the browser to TippingPoint's bug bounty pro...
Article | 20/06/2008 Microsoft admits patch didn't work, encourages XP SP2, SP3 re-installs
Microsoft asked for a patch do-over Thursday as it re-released one of last week's security updates after realizing the original fix didn't do the job.
Article | 19/06/2008 EzyDVD set to challenge Telstra Bigpond
EzyDVD, Australia's largest online DVD store, confirmed today that it will be launching a movie download service, EzyDownload. The new service, which ...

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