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  • Paedophiles force NineMSN chatroom closure

    Australia's NineMSN has announced it will close its chat-rooms in the interests of child safety, effective 14 October.

  • Microsoft overhauls Window Live

    Microsoft has announced an overhaul of its Windows Live products, Hotmail and MSN Messenger, which the new products being available from February 2009.

  • MSN Messenger users get idle chat

    Microsoft’s MSN messenger service has been sitting idle all day due to a technical glitch, which occurred during maintenance upgrades in the US. Meanwhile, Aussie users remain out of touch and ill-informed.

  • Microsoft livens up instant messaging

    The joint venture in Australia between Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd, ninemsn, said today it had publicly launched Windows Live Messenger, a next-generation instant messaging program that automatically updates contact information and lets people share files by simply dragging and dropping them onto a contact list.

  • Aussie developer encrypts corporate IM

    A small Australian security software developer has found itself a niche in the instant messaging market dominated by big-guns Yahoo, MSN and AOL, encrypting a product for corporate use.

Blogs (1)

  • Read the blog post - Ella Morton

    Channel 10 & the Web

    Channel 10's threadbare online presence stands out among the other TV networks' swish Web sites. But why?

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  • Yahoo tries to out-Google Google

    Yahoo continues to struggle behind Google in the US but in Australia, it's a slightly different story -- NineMSN, the partnership between Kerry Packer's PBL and Microsoft, remains a major stumbling block for the online giant.

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