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by Stan Beer
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Still reeling from its customer search privacy scandal, internet service provider America Online (AOL) once again finds its reputation under attack, this time having its client software labelled badware by a non-profit group backed by prominent names in IT and education.
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by Stan Beer
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Number one chipmaker Intel has begun rolling out its dual-core 64-bit processors for notebooks and the manufacturers have signalled that they are already churning out notebook computers in tandem with the announcement.
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by Stan Beer
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After signing a lucrative US advertising deal with number 2 search provider Yahoo in May, online auction provider eBay has now sealed a similar ad deal with search engine leader Google for the rest of the world.
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by Stan Beer
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New image sensing chips for cars from Japanese electronics manufacturer NEC have started shipping with the intention of preventing collisions with pedestrians and other vehicles.
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by Stan Beer
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Google has signalled its intention to expand beyond its consumer boundaries and into the corporate marketplace with the announcement of a range of new web-based business oriented appplications designed to go head to head with Microsoft offerings.
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by Stan Beer
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In the spirit of improving communications with web site publishers, Google has launched a new website called Webmaster Central.
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by Stan Beer
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Online retailer, Amazon.com has moved into renting online computing resources on demand to developers requiring computing power without having the capital to pay for it up front.
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by Stan Beer
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After making a big noise about the benefits of its new ribbon user interface for Office 2007, Microsoft is acquiescing to user demands that the new user interface is confusing and takes up too much space.
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by Stan Beer
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US scientists intend to build a supercomputing network from idle PlayStation 3 boxes sitting in gamers' homes in a project aimed at understanding diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer.
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by Stan Beer
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A 30GB hard drive, a 3-inch screen, Wi-Fi capability, and FM radio are confirmed features of the upcoming Zune music player which has now been revealed will be manufactured for Microsoft by Japanese electronics giant Toshiba.
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by Stan Beer
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The release of Internet Explorer 7 is finally just around the corner with Microsoft announcing the availability of Release Candidate 1 (RC1). Some experts are already advising IE6 users to migrate to the new web browser now.
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by Stan Beer
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Last year it was HP, a couple of weeks ago it was Dell, now Apple Computer has become the latest high profile manufacturer of notebooks to issue a global scale recall of 1.8 million batteries due to overheating problems.
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by Stan Beer
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Security firm Marshal has identified a new form of spam that is hidden in Word documents. The new type of spam uses a combination of obfuscation and social engineering in an effort to bypass anti-spam software and spam-savvy email users.
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by Stan Beer
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It just seems to get worse for for Microsoft on the Windows security front. Now the software company has been forced to create a patch for a patch released earlier this month which has introduced a new critical security vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
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by Stan Beer
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Google is in danger of being shut-down in Brazil and faces a possible US$61 million fine for refusing to hand over user information associated with one of its social networking sites.
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by Stan Beer
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After four years of continual bad news, the sun has finally broken through the clouds for Sun Microsystems as it totally outshone its rivals in the global server market during the second quarter of 2006, according to statistics from research group IDC.
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