Australian students win global software competition

Australian students win global software competition A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in software design.

  • Apple's MobileMe to be relaunched

    Apple's MobileMe service is to be relaunched this week, ahead of the Friday launch of the iPhone 3G.

    09 July 2008 10:00 AM

  • Microsoft gears up Web apps for big business

    Microsoft detailed on Tuesday its road map and pricing for Web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses.

    09 July 2008 09:35 AM

  • Gmail gets free Yahoo phishing protection

    Google on Tuesday said it is now using an email authentication technology to keep phishers from luring Gmail users to fake eBay and PayPal Web pages in order to steal usernames and passwords.

    09 July 2008 09:16 AM

  • Ex-Microsoft executive becomes VMware CEO

    VMware on Tuesday announced the abrupt departure of founder and CEO Diane Greene, replacing her with former Microsoft executive Paul Maritz.

    09 July 2008 08:41 AM

This is coming from one who claims Optus' second largest shareholder is an unbiased referee for structural separation.

From: Telco separation: more than meets the eye

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  • Business Objects and SAP plan Australian blitz

    The local division of business intelligence vendor Business Objects has outlined ambitious goals for the Australian market as it settles into its new relationship with parent SAP.

    08 July 2008 03:42 PM

  • Aussie students close in on Microsoft prize

    A group of Australian University students, including one of Australia’s most well-known technology bloggers, has progressed to the finals of the Microsoft-sponsored Imagine Cup software development competition in Paris.

    07 July 2008 12:02 PM

  • Gates is gone but the fight goes on: Stallman

    To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.

    07 July 2008 09:41 AM

  • LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging

    Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a member of the LiMo Foundation, has bought the browser and messaging side of Openwave's business.

    07 July 2008 08:23 AM

  • Australia sends troops to combat Microsoft prices

    The Department of Defence's CIO Group, headed up by Greg Farr, will represent the Commonwealth of Australia when negotiating a procurement template for all government agencies.

    04 July 2008 04:18 PM

  • NSW puts out feelers for new Tcard, fare restructure

    Tcard, or some variant of it, is again on the cards as the NSW government looks to its options for getting Sydney's electronic ticketing back on track.

    04 July 2008 12:05 PM

  • Google RatProxy looks for cross-site flaws

    Google released a free tool Tuesday that should help Web developers find and fix cross-site vulnerabilities.

    04 July 2008 10:25 AM

  • Judge orders YouTube to reveal 12TB of user logs

    Dismissing privacy concerns, a US judge overseeing a US$1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the online video sharing service to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

    04 July 2008 08:09 AM

  • E-way "human error" costs beep tag users AU$100

    A changeover error transferring beep tag customer accounts to E-way systems has caused some people, who thought they had closed their toll accounts, to be falsely charged AU$100.

    03 July 2008 04:51 PM

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