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Google plans Picasa beta for Mac
Google plans shortly to release a beta version of Picasa for Mac OS X, helping Apple fans catch up to Windows and Linux users already employing the free tool for editing, cataloguing and uploading photos. Read more »
Twitter hack strikes Obama, Britney Spears
An unknown party has hacked into the Twitter accounts of high-profile users of the micro-blogging and social networking service such as US President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News anchor Bill O'Riley. Read more »
Apple's Jobs confirms health problems
Apple has admitted that chief executive Steve Jobs is skipping Tuesday's Macworld keynote for health-related reasons, after initially pointing to other reasons for his absence. Read more »
DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD
The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool. Read more »
'Curse of silence' flaw hits smartphones
A denial-of-service attack that limits the number of SMS messages that can be received by Nokia smartphones has been disclosed and demonstrated. Read more »
Microsoft details PC-as-a-service vision
Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing — a vision which the software giant claims would benefit suppliers and PC users, despite a likely higher cost of ownership to consumers. Read more »
IT security: The trends to watch in 2009
In the arms race between security specialists and threats, it's hard enough keeping up with advisories, warnings of potential problems and new philosophies of safe IT, let alone mixing in the rapidly changing technological and economical implications of the connected environment. Read more »
Microsoft warns of SQL Server vulnerability
Microsoft issued an advisory late Monday confirming a remote code execution vulnerability affecting its SQL Server line. Read more »
Microsoft grants Windows XP a reprieve
Some PC makers now have an extra four months to sell Windows XP. Read more »
Google peeps get Android phone for Xmas
Google Australia employees — and those in many other countries — received an HTC Dream Android phone for Christmas. Read more »
Adobe AIR for Linux exits beta
Adobe this week took the Linux version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime product out of beta, bringing it up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac users. Read more »
MS patches zero-day IE flaw
Microsoft has released a critical security patch to plug vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, a move that comes amid malicious attackers taking advantage of the security flaws. Read more »
How to destroy a hard drive
In this video, we don our white lab coats and set about deleting data from hard drives. Instead of using more traditional methods, we decided to barbecue one hard drive, smash another one to pieces with a hammer and microwave the third. Read more »
Avoid using IE if possible: AusCERT
Australia's Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) has recommended organisations "consider using a web browser other than Internet Explorer until a patch becomes available" — an option that many large firms cannot seriously consider. Read more »
No more Macworld keynotes for Jobs
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has given his last keynote address at Macworld in San Francisco. Read more »
Microsoft releases its first iPhone app
Engineers in Microsoft's Live Labs have released the company's first application for Apple's iPhone, even before making it available on Window Mobile. Read more »
Zero-day exploit endangers all IE versions
An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicised, Microsoft says. Read more »
UK Wikipedia censorship 'easy to evade'
The blocking mechanism used to censor Wikipedia in the UK has been described as "fragile" and "easy to evade" by Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton. Read more »
IE7 under attack from 'accidental' zero-day exploit
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) users are threatened by a zero-day exploit that may have been "accidentally" let loose by Chinese security researchers, is expected to cause havoc over the holiday period, according to several security companies. Read more »
Chrome exits beta status
Google's Chrome Web browser is coming out of beta testing, according to a US report yesterday. Read more »
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It's another year down but some things never change. That was shown this week as Internet Explorer remained under fire from yet another zero-day exploit. In other news, we set a hard drive on fire and Apple cans its involvement with MacWorld. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we take a look at Google's new technology -- Native Client, its Android phone, news from the world of web browsers and more. Read more »
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W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.