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Article | 14/02/2008 Report: News Corp., Yahoo in talks to fend off Microsoft
Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off Microsoft's bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday...
Article | 14/02/2008 Facebook bends to users, makes it easier to delete accounts
After a flood of highly publicized user complaints, Facebook this week moved to make it easier for users to permanently delete their accounts and all ...
Article | 13/02/2008 Commissioner signals new powers as part of privacy reforms
Amendments to the Privacy Act to be introduced this year include a range of sweeping new powers allowing the Privacy Commissioner to enforce the manda...
Article | 13/02/2008 Bluetooth to work with Wi-Fi
A future version of Bluetooth will be able to increase throughput for sending videos, music, and other high-bandwidth applications by using a nearby W...
Article | 13/02/2008 T-Mobile dumps Google for Yahoo
T-Mobile has announced that it will soon begin using Yahoo as its preferred mobile search provider in Europe, ending the operator's existing relations...
Article | 13/02/2008 FBI warns of Valentines Day Storm Worm virus
The FBI and the US Internet Crime Complaint Center today said that with Valentine's Day approaching, users should be on the lookout for spam e-mails s...
Article | 12/02/2008 Microsoft ships 6 critical patches; 2 more could be serious
[[xref: http://www.microsoftsubnet.com|Microsoft]] Tuesday released 11 security patches, six with the highest rating of "critical" that span Windows, ...
Article | 12/02/2008 Patches keep coming as Apple fixes OS X security bugs
The bug fixes kept coming Monday, as Apple shipped critical security updates for its Mac OS X operating system.
Article | 13/02/2008 gotalk goes naked DSL, bundles VoIP too
gotalk has jumped on the naked DSL bandwagon with the announcement of what it calls an aggressive challenge to iiNet, Telstra and Optus naked DSL serv...
Article | 13/02/2008 RIM probing cause of BlackBerry outage
Research In Motion still doesn't know why its BlackBerry service went down for several hours on Monday.
Article | 13/02/2008 IBM researcher: Hackers camouflage 100 per cent of Web attacks
Hackers now mask virtually every Web browser exploit as part of their normal procedure to evade detection by security software, said IBM's X-Force res...
Article | 13/02/2008 Microsoft releases massive set of security updates
Microsoft released 11 security updates fixing critical flaws in its products, including a publicly known ActiveX bug that affects users of the Visual ...
Article | 13/02/2008 Vista SP1 prerequisites rolled up in Patch Tuesday update
Microsoft is including a set of nonsecurity updates that prepare customers to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 as part of its monthly "Patch Tuesd...
Article | 13/02/2008 Yahoo buys Maven for $160 million
Yahoo has acquired Maven Networks for US$160 million in a deal that will help the search provider boost its video advertising capabilities.
Article | 13/02/2008 Mozilla offering limited live chat support for Firefox
Mozilla has been quietly offering live Web support for the Firefox Web browser since the beginning of the year. It is one of the open-source group's e...
Article | 12/02/2008 MWC - Android comes to life in Barcelona
Google's Android software platform for mobile phones is coming to life in Barcelona, with a number of chip manufacturers showing it running on prototy...
Article | 12/02/2008 Microsoft hints at Yahoo hostile takeover
Microsoft said its $US44.6 billion offer to purchase Yahoo is "fair" and hinted that it may pursue a hostile takeover of the Internet company, accordi...
Article | 11/02/2008 MacBook Air: good looks, poor battery life
Ultraportable laptops have a history of requiring compromises when it comes to performance. Lately, the PC World Test Center has seen some improvement...
Article | 12/02/2008 Telstra's NextG download speeds to hit 21Mbs, and then double
Telstra's NextG service is about to get even speedier. Its 3G customers will soon be offered downloads speeds that near and then surpass what is curre...
Article | 12/02/2008 Attacks aimed at Adobe Reader, Acrobat flaws intensify
The flaws disclosed last week in Adobe System's Reader and Acrobat programs have been used to exploit computers since at least January via malicious b...

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