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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 08:09
Microsoft IE vulnerability to receive urgent fix Wednesday
Tomorrow, the 18th of December at 5am (Australian Eastern Standard
Time), the 0-day security vulnerability that has embarrassed Microsoft
into action will receive the urgently needed patch that will restore
balance to the force and (temporarily) shut Linux zealots up.
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 13:35
PCs for schools: an open source solution
Last year, when Australia went to the polls, one of the major promises held out by the Labor Party - which ultimately returned to government after 11 years - was the provision of computers to school-children, one for each child in grades 9 to 12.
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Open Sauce
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Monday, 08 December 2008 04:40
Fashion Your Firefox released, streamlining browser customization
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A Meaningful Look
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Monday, 01 December 2008 08:50
Why I've got the browser blues
It would be really nice to go back to the days when I only needed one browser. As it is, I seem to need two different browsers to get my routine work done.
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Core Dump
Sunday, 23 November 2008 07:41
IE8 due mid 2009 - but will you use it?
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 browser, currently in beta 2, is due to
receive a release candidate in early 2009, with the final release
planned “after that”. With the popularity of Firefox and the emergence
of Google’s Chrome, will you use IE8?
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Monday, 17 November 2008 03:36
Speed up web surfing in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid)
In a continuing series of articles highlighting that GNU/Linux is a viable replacement operating system, today we're exploring one quick way to speed up your web browsing experience in the popular Ubuntu distribution.
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Apexing the Linux learning curve
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Thursday, 13 November 2008 08:18
More critical holes plugged by Firefox updates
New updates to Firefox 2.0 and 3.0 include fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, some of them regarded as critical. Users are advised to install the updates "as soon as possible."
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Open Source
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 20:18
Pardon me Microsoft Windows 7, your Firefox is showing
Tim Sneath, passionate Microsoft Windows client evangelist, spoke today at the “Power to Developers” rally in Sydney, Australia, promoting Windows 7. Yet, the camera caught more than just Microsoft software on his laptop, with Mozilla Firefox plain to see.
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Development
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Thursday, 06 November 2008 16:23
Chrome, Firefox, IE8: FIGHT!!!
Battle of the Browsers postings are nothing new, but usually are based upon the opinion of a single reviewer. However, if there were cash prizes to uncover bugs in Chrome, FireFox 3.1 and IE8 you might get a broader and more interesting view. Welcome to the Browser Bug Battle...
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Development
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Friday, 31 October 2008 17:52
Fat lady not singing on the iPhone
Once upon a time the big threat to Internet Explorer came in the shape of an alternative browser that wasn't called Firefox. Mozilla effectively squashed Opera out of the serious desktop browser contenders marketplace, and now it looks like Apple is doing the same when it comes to the iPhone.
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Market
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008 20:04
How to sell Linux netbooks to the world
2008 has been the year of the netbook. Since the surprise runaway success of the ASUS Eee Linux PC in 2007 there has been a surge of hardware vendors joining in. Yet MSI users have poo-pooed the use of Linux on these systems. I disagree. Here's why Linux netbooks are the future.
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The Linux Distillery
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 17:37
Firefox 3.1 beta lands on Planet Earth, not ready for most Earthlings
If you love trying out public beta browsers, then you’ll be rushing to
download the beta of Firefox 3.1, and while you’ll lose access to your
favourite plug-ins, there are some interesting new features that all
Firefox users will enjoy once 3.1 goes gold.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Friday, 03 October 2008 07:38
Mac OS X web share cracks 8 percent
New figures show Mac OS X's web share continues to grow at the expense of Windows. Linux might be growing more rapidly, but it's still too small to be significant.
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Core Dump
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Monday, 29 September 2008 12:00
Apple tweaking Safari for iPhone 2.2 software
Is Google about to get a more prominence in the iPhone version of the Safari browser, even though Google's Android platform is just coming to market in the shape of the HTC G1 mobile phone?
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Business Telecommunications
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Monday, 29 September 2008 08:28
Three days between Firefox 3 updates
A new version of Firefox 3 has appeared, just three days after the debut of the version it replaces.
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Open Source
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:33
Is the honeymoon over for Google Chrome users as market share plummets?
Within 48 hours of launching at the start of September, the Google Chrome browser managed to carve itself a pretty impressive one percent share of the global web browser market. That honeymoon period would appear to be over as we approach the end of the month and the market share starts to plummet...
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Open Source
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Friday, 19 September 2008 14:50
Does Exit Reality suck?
Exit Reality – it’s the new plugin that’s going to transform every
single website into a 3D virtual world, and unleash the power of 3D to
everyone. So, why am I stuck in the reality of herky-jerky 3D motion,
which is giving me a really bad first impression?!
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Fuzzy Logic
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Monday, 08 September 2008 15:39
10 reasons to stick with Vista and forget Linux
Windows Vista is in the news again, thanks to the incomprehensible
start to the new campaign featuring Gates and Seinfeld, but also
because of the growing threat to Windows Vista posed by different
flavours of Linux, XP and Mac OS X. But none of those things stop Vista
from being Microsoft’s best OS yet.
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Fuzzy Logic
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Monday, 08 September 2008 13:02
NetSuite first Chrome-plated on-demand business suite: claim
Computing business applications provider NetSuite claims to be the first to officially support Google's new Chrome browser.
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Business Telecommunications
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 09:30
bit.ly hits the URL-shortener deck running hard
URL shorteners such as TinyURL are nothing new, but bit.ly has just entered
the scene with some powerful additional features that promise to really stir
things up.
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A Meaningful Look
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