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FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny

Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Read more »

20,000 Web pages help exploit 'patched' Flash flaw

A possible zero day exploit has been discovered for a flaw in Flash thought to have been patched by Adobe a month ago. Read more »

Jerry Yang's memo to Yahoo staff

This is the text of the e-mail Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang sent to his company's staff on Saturday after Microsoft withdrew its offer to acquire the Internet pioneer. Read more »

Microsoft lets users bypass Office Ribbon

For users still unhappy using the Ribbon interface in the Office productivity suite, Microsoft has a new option: search. Read more »

Vista SP1 coming to shelves near you next month?

So, when is Windows Vista Service Pack 1 coming out? It sounds like a simple question, but the answer is anything but. Read more »

JobWatch: Enough chiefs, more Indians required

IT jobs lead the February fall of online job advertisements according to the latest Olivier Job Index, released over the weekend. Read more »

HP calls for a bit of help with open source tools

HP has called on developers to pitch in and help improve the open source management tools it made available to the community last week. Read more »

Will a US recession demolish global IT budgets in 2008?

The US sub-prime mortgage lending crisis could lead to economic losses totaling between US$150bn and US$400bn, according to The Wall Street Journal. While this dwarfs the effect of previous disasters such as the dot com bust, analysts remain optimistic that its effect on IT budgets will be flat, rather than disastrous. Read more »

WiMax will take off — if gen YouTube says so

Fledgling technology mobile WiMax could rack up 80 million subscribers within five years — despite having just few commercial networks to its name to date. Read more »

JobWatch: IT jobs buck Christmas trend

Demand for IT skills continued to grow throughout November, bucking a general softening in employment growth as interest rates, and uncertainty surrounding the change of government begins to bite. Read more »

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In defence of freedom

The principles are the same, but technology has moved on significantly in the 15 years since the release of GPL 2. Read more »

The importance of IP in Australia

With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property. Read more »

Effective usability inspection techniques

These two techniques can improve the usability of your software without needing large amounts of time or resources. Read more »

Beyond the barriers: What women want in IT

Is it time to accept that females lack IT or is lack of support and enduring stereotypes keeping women away? Ella Morton investigates. Read more »

Steering an XP project using the Planning Game

Learn how to decide the content of a particular iteration in your XP project using the Planning Game. Read more »

Six barriers to open source adoption

The benefits of open source software are well known--lower TCO, more choice, and increasing quality and functionality of the code. Several barriers must be overcome before Linux and other open source projects are broadly accepted across enterprises, but they aren't insurmountable. Read more »

The open source revolution

How will governments and large enterprises get their heads around the concept of open source software? Read more »

Who's liable for Linux?

It's the next big Linux controversy: Who should be liable if customers wind up using software that was created from misappropriated intellectual property? Read more »

Choosing the right CMS

Should you deploy a commercial, open source, or customised CMS? This article examines the pros and cons of each approach to help you make the right choice. Read more »

Torvalds: What, me worry?

In this interview Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, sounds off on the SCO lawsuit, patents and the future of Linux. Read more »

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The Fud is Flying! (Again)

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- It seems like that the latest marketing technique for software vendors is to sling a little FUD and see if it sticks. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt make for some attention-grabbing headlines and are great for scaring potential customers away from a competitors offering. Read more »

The FUD is flying!

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- For years, the IT community has accused Microsoft of spreading “FUD” (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about their competitor’s solutions. But it looks like that the FUD has been flying back the other way, with some industry analysts hypothesising that the new IP features in Windows Vista will bring the Internet to it's knees with an overload of traffic. Read more »

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    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

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    Worldwide Blog Action Day is 15 October, in 2008 the goal is to raise awareness and conversation around the worldwide topic of poverty and in the process raise money for the cause. Who's in? Read more »

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