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Article | 20/10/2007 Google Gets Undue Credit for Ad Conversions
Google has gotten undeservedly all the credit for many clicks on the online ads it delivers via its search engine, but Microsoft wants to put a stop t...
Article | 19/10/2007 Piracy raids net DVDs ready for distribution
Victorian Police conducted a piracy raid on a shop in Melbourne yesterday seizing over 100,000 DVDs, 51 burners, 14 folders of jacket covers and prepa...
Article | 20/10/2007 ACCC launches public consultation on Telstra SAO exemption
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today launched a public consultation on Telstra's transmission capacity exemption application.
Article | 16/10/2007 Telstra CDMA ready for switch-off
Telstra has urged customers to make the switch from CDMA to Next G following its announcement that the network has 25 percent more coverage than its p...
Article | 19/10/2007 Long-lived Mars rovers to keep on roving
They've dealt with software glitches, a damaged and useless front wheel, and fierce dust storms that cut their electrical power production. Still, the...
Article | 19/10/2007 HP offers secure document printing
Hewlett-Packard introduced this week a security technology that ensures printed documents get to the right people and protects against malware.
Article | 19/10/2007 WEB 2.0 - Facebook wants to make members' data portable
Facebook wants to make the data its members enter into the social network's profiles portable, so that they can move that data to other online service...
Article | 19/10/2007 Sony, Toshiba to form Cell processor JV
Sony, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba have decided to pool their resources into a joint venture that will take over manufacturing of the Cell ...
Article | 19/10/2007 Truphone to launch 'no-click' voice on Wi-Fi
Voice on Wi-Fi specialist Truphone will update its software to offer "no-click" access, which will allow the automatic logging-in at public hotspots a...
Article | 19/10/2007 Media companies unveil copyright guidelines for 'Net content
Some of the world's biggest Internet and media companies have joined together to offer a set of guidelines aimed at protecting copyrights online.
Article | 19/10/2007 USB-based network-assessment tool debuts
Catbird, a US provider of in-the-cloud security services, has made available a USB thumb drive-based device called the Pocket V-Agent, which can be pl...
Article | 19/10/2007 Windows update glitch stumps Microsoft sleuths
Microsoft is still scratching its head over a mystery that has some users reporting that settings within Windows Vista's Automatic Updates feature are...
Article | 19/10/2007 Couple swarmed by SWAT team after 911 'hack'
A Washington State teenager is facing 18 years in prison on charges that he used his PC to access Orange County, California's 911 emergency response s...
Article | 19/10/2007 Itheon upgrades network emulator for Windows
Itheon Networks has announced a major upgrade to its Network Emulator (INE) for Windows.
Article | 19/10/2007 Scientists come up with self-encrypting document
The boffins at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) have demonstrated a way to encrypt sections of a document so that sensitive information can be s...
Article | 19/10/2007 Storm gang spammers pump up volume with major spoken scam slam
Spammers started delivering spoken messages mid-week in the newest twist on the ongoing pump-and-dump scam, several security researchers said.
Article | 18/10/2007 Ballmer unveils mashup beta, dismisses Google apps
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week unveiled a public beta version of the company's Popfly mashup tool while offering his take on the Web 2.0 landsc...
Article | 19/10/2007 New cross-site scripting attack targets VoIP
Security researchers have found a way to execute cross-site scripting attacks through VoIP clients, introducing a dangerous new threat almost no one i...
Article | 19/10/2007 Researchers: Wikipedia proves Good Samaritans do exist
Dartmouth researchers say they were surprised to find that Good Samaritans -- those people who update the online Wikipedia encyclopedia when just pass...
Article | 19/10/2007 MySpace opens its platform to developers
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, one of its toughest competitors, MySpace announced Wednesday plans to open its platform for developers to buil...

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