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Article | 23/01/2008 Microsoft stresses backward compatibility for IE8
Microsoft hopes to balance backward compatibility with Web standards in Internet Explorer (IE) 8 by enabling a new, optional "super standards" mode in...
Article | 23/01/2008 Spreading Worm Hits Nokia Handsets
Security vendor Fortinet has uncovered a malicious SymbianOS Worm that is actively spreading on mobile phone networks.
Article | 23/01/2008 Microsoft dumps Vista virtualisation limits
Microsoft on yesterday dropped its prohibition on running the least expensive versions of Windows Vista in virtual machines, doubling the choices for ...
Article | 23/01/2008 Worm fears shut down Skype video feature
Skype has been forced to turn off a video-sharing feature in its software because it could be misused to launch a self-copying worm attack against Sky...
Article | 23/01/2008 Report: EBay CEO Whitman preparing to retire
EBay CEO Meg Whitman is planning to step down from the company she has led for the past 10 years, The Wall Street Journal said Tuesday.
Article | 23/01/2008 WordPress boosts free blog storage to 3GB
Automattic plans to boost the free storage capacity available to users of its WordPress blog-hosting site from 50MB to 3GB, according to a blog post b...
Article | 22/01/2008 Facebook faces UK privacy probe
Facebook's data protection policies are to be investigated by the U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), after a user complained that they we...
Article | 21/01/2008 LSS battle to continues: Telstra appeals ACCC ruling
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has handed down a final determination in relation to Telstra's pricing of its Line Sharing S...
Article | 22/01/2008 Seagate boosts Momentus laptop drive capacity to 250GB
Seagate Technology today is set to unveil an updated Momentus laptop disk drive that boosts capacity from 160GB to 250GB.
Article | 22/01/2008 FBI warns of rise in phone-based 'vishing' attacks
With consumers finally getting wise to phishing attacks, scammers are hitting the phones.
Article | 22/01/2008 Skype plugs critical bug with temp move
Hackers can exploit newly uncovered vulnerabilities in Skype's popular chat and VoIP software to shanghai a Windows PC, security researchers said Thur...
Article | 21/01/2008 Crazy John's accused of crazy pricing
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has accused mobile phone retailer, Crazy John's, of deceptive or misleading conduct in relat...
Article | 21/01/2008 Google provides AU$28.5 million for worldwide charitable works
The philanthropic arm of Google said it is giving US$25 million (AU$28.5 million) in grants and investments to companies and organizations committed t...
Article | 21/01/2008 Mass host hack bigger than first thought, hits 10,000 sites
A large-scale hack of legitimate Web sites to infect visitors' PCs is much more massive than first thought, researchers said Friday. At least 10,000 s...
Article | 21/01/2008 Symantec dumps application performance management business
Symantec last week announced plans to sell its application performance management (APM) business. The business is based on technology Veritas (now own...
Article | 21/01/2008 Sun SPOT technology set for open source
Sun is expected to announce this week that it will make the Sun SPOT (Small Programmable Object Technology) device platform available via open source,...
Article | 21/01/2008 DNS tools play key role in Hollywood thriller 'Untraceable'
When the FBI agents in Sony Pictures' upcoming "Untraceable" movie need to catch a killer, they turn to network technologies IT pros have been using f...
Article | 21/01/2008 Exploit available for year's first critical Windows bug
A just-released proof-of-concept exploit against the year's first Windows vulnerability has security researchers ringing alarm bells.
Article | 21/01/2008 Researcher 'cracks' Yahoo anti-scam feature
A security researcher has claimed that Yahoo's system for blocking automated access to its systems - the CAPTCHA image-recognition system - has been e...
Article | 18/01/2008 ACCC sets ULLS pricing: Primus 'Justice has finally been done'
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has published its final determinations made in the arbitration of disputes over access to the Uncon...

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