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Google launches local hosted security service

Google has launched a hosted security service for enterprise customers in Australia, a re-branded version of the Postini service it acquired last year. Read more »

New Opera beta sports email, feed changes

For right now, the future of Opera — the browsing alternative to the browsing alternative — doesn't look a whole lot different from the present. Keeping in mind that this isn't a stable release, Opera 9.60 beta 1 for Windows and Mac looks to add a few feature tweaks and claims to be faster. Read more »

Significant gaps found in MS Exchange API docs

Software companies that provide alternatives to Microsoft Exchange have reported "significant gaps" in the application programming interfaces (APIs) recently published by Microsoft for its volume server products. Read more »

Microsoft warns of new Word vulnerability

A yet-to-be-patched security hole in multiple versions of Word is being exploited in cyberattacks, Microsoft warned late on Tuesday in the US. Read more »

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Scripting the remove and disable mailbox attributes in Exchange 2007

This article describes how you can disable or remove the e-mail attribute from the Windows account yet retain the account. Read more »

Build your own automated response system in Perl

The ability to automatically read and respond to e-mail with appropriate commands helps you monitor enterprise apps. Here's how. Read more »

Get more e-mail flexibility with Fetchmail

Most users use GUI e-mail clients such as Thunderbird or Evolution, or even prefer Web-based mail services such as Gmail; however, there are still a significant number of people using text-based e-mail clients such as Mutt or Pine. Read more »

Getting things done with mutt

David Allen created the GTD (Getting Things Done) work-life management system and it has really become a way of life for many people. Vincent Danen shows you how to how to implement this system using the email client mutt. Read more »

Cyber-bludging special: Acceptable usage

There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. Read more »

Seven aspects of a great user experience

The spotlight at this year's Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne was on user experience. Andy Budd, a designer and developer at Clearleft in the UK, contributed to the theme of the day with his presentation -- "Designing the User Experience Curve". Read more »

Streamline your data management with deduplication

The concept of deduplication is simple - it's creating a single copy for all the duplicate bits or files that exist on a network. But how does it actually work and how do you use it? Read more »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »

Protecting corporate Net assets

You might be surprised to learn that although you've registered the names, you may not 'own' them, and you may be scammed into paying a fee to reacquire them. Learn how to secure your Internet assets. Read more »

Building a Web mail system in Java

The JavaMail libraries make retrieving email easy, but you still need to do something with it. Here's an example of a servlet-based web mail application Read more »

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  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

  • Staff Adobe briefly considered its own browser

    Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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