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Article | 14/12/2007 No download needed: OpenOffice beta available as Web app
Interested in trying out the free OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite without having to install it on your computer?
Article | 14/12/2007 Botnet-controlled Trojan robbing online bank customers
A new variant on the "Prg Banking Trojan" malware discovered in June is stealing funds from commercial accounts in the United States, United Kingdom, ...
Article | 14/12/2007 Opera tells EU that Microsoft's IE hurts the Web
Norwegian browser maker Opera took a page from an American playbook Wednesday as it complained to European Union antitrust regulators that Microsoft s...
Article | 14/12/2007 Facebook targets Google with licensing program
In a direct shot across the bow of Google and its OpenSocial project, Facebook Thursday announced plans to allow other social networks to license its ...
Article | 13/12/2007 Blackberry rollout stalled over work/life balance debate
A federal government department stalled the distribution of a new fleet of BlackBerries following fears the devices would have a negative impact on th...
Article | 16/01/2007 UK chip maker promises low-cost GPS
Cambridge Silicon Radio PLC, a designer of wireless chips, will buy two software companies whose technology it claims will drop the cost of putting GP...
Article | 16/11/2007 Garmin drops out of bidding war for Tele Atlas
GPS products maker Garmin has pulled out of its bidding war to buy digital maps company Tele Atlas, and instead extended its contract with rival maps ...
Article | 13/12/2007 European GPS rival gets go-ahead
The European initiative to build a system of satellites rivaling the U.S. GPS system, dubbed 'Galileo,' is finally moving forward.
Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft yanks free Vista, Office offer
Microsoft on Tuesday withdrew an offer of free copies of Windows Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 in exchange for consumers agreeing to install monitori...
Article | 13/12/2007 Cisco creates Entertainment Operating System
Cisco Systems made its biggest foray yet into the entertainment and social networking world by announcing plans late Tuesday for the Cisco Entertainme...
Article | 12/12/2007 Sony reveals early 2008 game line-up
Sony announced an impressive line-up of first-party games for PS3, PSN, PS2, and PSP on Wednesday.
Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft unveils IE -- minus the 'click to activate' nag
Microsoft has stripped a "click to activate" warning from Internet Explorer (IE), part of the fallout from a patent lawsuit settlement the company str...
Article | 13/12/2007 Most HP, Compaq notebooks ship with code bugs
Nearly two-dozen different laptop models sold by Hewlett-Packard Co. ship with software plagued with multiple zero-day vulnerabilities, security resea...
Article | 13/12/2007 Microsoft ends year by patching 11 bugs
Microsoft released seven security bulletins this week that patch 11 vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and other part...
Article | 13/12/2007 Led Zeppelin clips may be hard to wipe off YouTube
YouTube's technology for finding videos posted without the copyright holder's permission may be useless to identify footage posted to the site from Le...
Article | 12/12/2007 Vodafone set to upgrade its national mobile broadband network
Vodafone Australia has announced new plans to upgrade its national mobile broadband network in the next 12 months. The new network is designed to incr...
Article | 13/12/2007 Infidelity a problem? Offset your cheating online
A Web site is offering people the chance to offset their infidelity by paying random strangers to remain faithful, in a satirical bid to highlight the...
Article | 11/12/2007 Guitar Hero 3 Wii version sells for $9,100 on eBay
A Canadian man claims to have recently caught his 15 year-old son smoking pot in the backyard with two of his "delinquent friends." As penance for the...
Article | 12/12/2007 Free MacBooks underpin live success for indie rocker
A little bit of chutzpah has gone a long way for one musician. Concert goers at last weekend's Homebake music festival in Sydney were the latest to fi...
Article | 12/12/2007 DNS attack could signal Phishing 2.0
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims...

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