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    Microsoft shouldn't be worried about Google's move into the enterprise applications space but Microsoft is shaping up to be more of a challenger to Google's online ads business, according to Gartner.

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    ZDNet Australia searches through the year that was for Google.

  • Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

    Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner?

  • BEA's Liquid dips deeper into data pool

    The chip maker is launching its long-anticipated foray into wireless networking with a new chipset and reference design kit from the nascent Connectivity Solutions division.

  • EMC woos Eclipse developers with US$100k prize

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  • Is there life in Google's Android?

    Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.

  • Photos: Software tools for Google Android

    Google released a software development kit for its Android mobile-phone software on Monday. Google spokespeople have talked of "innovations we can't even envisage yet" in Android. Take a sneak peak at the software development kit.

  • Google's Android head on the iPhone, Linux and the Dream

    Google's Andy Rubin talks nuts and bolts about the Linux-based phone software, the lessons of Sidekick, and the beauty of the iPhone.

  • Siemens and the hand of God

    During the 64 matches to be played in the 2006 World Cup, an estimated 3.2 million spectators will pass through the 12 stadiums to witness the action first-hand. From arrival to departure, the entire experience will be monitored, streamlined and enhanced by multiple systems from Siemens.

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  • Apple eMac (PowerPC G4 1.25GHz; SuperDrive)

    The eMac delivers an attractive, adequately speedy, easy-to-use PC without the flat-panel iMac's relatively high price

  • Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

    After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. Additional reading: IE is evolving, but is it enough?

  • Ulead's fun, value-packed editing tool

    Ulead PhotoImpact has long been known as a fun, powerful, value-packed image-editing program, and the latest version maintains that reputation.

  • Palmtop Perfection

    It has been 12 months since the Test Lab looked at Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and while much has changed, at the same time, many things have stayed the same. The battle still wages between the Windows Powered (WinCE) PDAs and the Palm OS Powered PDAs.

  • Software rage: Our readers vent

    Frustrated software users must often suffer the indignities of sloppy code. We continue to explore the Software Rage phenomenon with contributions from our readers on the subject.

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