2007 was an eventful year for Microsoft, with the company playing what it considered to be its trump card (only to discover Vista wasn't trumps, XP was). But the lovable giant had its fingers in many other pies -- making for a year of management changes, entry into unclaimed markets and new alliances.
ZDNet Australia searches through the year that was for Google.
Google rejiggered its search algorithm 450 times last year, in an effort to improve the quality of results.
It's taken a while, but it's finally here: Google Maps now includes real-time Australian traffic info.
Google's Chrome and Apple's Safari web browsers have continued to steal market share from their much larger rivals Internet Explorer and Firefox over the past six months, according to internal ZDNet.com.au statistics.
Watching the latest, hilarious stage in the Jimmy Kimmel-Matt Damon "feud" -- which racked up 2.5 million YouTube views in one day -- I was struck by a thought: who in the world is paying for all this bandwidth?
One of the big problems of the internet is that is practically impossible to keep up-to-date on preferred topics. You can limit your sources, but this can mean missing a lot of valuable data.
Feeding Snow Leopard with juicy Office 2008 discs caused a few problems for our New Zealand correspondent.
Given that the new iPhone 3G S is rated at up to 7.2Mbps, you'd think Telstra would be all over it as a potential show pony for Next G's purported high-speed performance. Yet the opposite seems to be true.
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Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?
Since lifting its university-only restrictions in September 2006, Facebook has become the poster child for social networks and attracted more than 65 million users. But will it survive 'the next big thing'?
Google denies the information it collects from users of its Google Election platform causes any tension between its commercial interests and its promise to protect users' privacy.
Electronic government took centre stage on the second day of CeBIT Australia 2007 in Sydney, with Ann Steward, chief information officer for the Australian government and special minister of state Gary Nairn addressing a full house. Extras: video and photo gallery.
Electronic government took centre stage on the second day of CeBIT Australia 2007 in Sydney, with Ann Steward, chief information officer for the Australian government and special minister of state Gary Nairn addressing a full house. Extras: video and photo gallery.
If you need to make sleeker-looking documents and presentations, Microsoft Office Standard 2007 is a worthy upgrade. But stick to your current software if you don't feel that it lacks anything.
Google Docs is a fantastic free online application that offers some exciting features. However, by virtue of being an online application, users with a slow connection will experience lag, and Docs still doesn't contain enough functionality to be a replacement for today's mainstay office suites in most businesses.
The online Google Spreadsheets is free, easy to use, and handy for collaboration, but stick with Excel for complex spreadsheets.
The UX30 gets oh so close to what it strives to achieve, but small design choices like the stippled touchpad and port covers, and large issues like the low battery life prevent it from achieving greatness.
We like the Toshiba Satellite L500D, it's amazing value for its price. However, we think it's worth paying the extra AU$200 for the version with the less power hungry GPU.
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