Google's Android developer team has started selling the Android Dev Phone 1, the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software.
A new front has opened in the ongoing arms race between Apple and iPhone hackers, with one hacker group making the iPhone boot with a Linux 2.6 kernel.
Just two days after Apple released its iPhone 2.2 update, the independent iPhone Dev Team has released a jailbreak of the firmware.
Just a week after its launch, there are more ZDNet.com.au readers using Google Chrome than Apple's Safari browser. Meanwhile, Microsoft Internet Explorer now accounts for just 53 per cent of all browsers.
A little more than a week after the release of Apple's iPhone 3G, an unofficial development team has announced the release of software that "jailbreaks" the new device, allowing unauthorised third-party applications to be loaded.
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Last week, I lamented the growing tendency to slam perfectly valid technologies as unsuitable for new uses, just because they prove to be unsuited for applications for which they are inherently unsuited.
It's just two months until Microsoft plans to pull the plug on Windows XP arguably its best operating system to date.
The Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson claims that one of the reasons he hasn't deployed much open source software is due to security fears, with the code not subject to enough "technical scrutiny".
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Renowned security researcher Mikko Hypponen talks to ZDNet.com.au about the pros and cons of law enforcement using hacking techniques to fight crime.
Long overshadowed by its GNOME and KDE-based brethren, Xubuntu is a handy Ubuntu solution for older PCs or for users that want a lighter desktop footprint.
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If the Touch is the player that you want, that you really, really want, you've probably got one already. Fence-sitters should stay there until next year when third-party apps or version 2.0 comes out.
The name suggests more of the same but with more space and better value. Hard disk lag issues, video out controversy and just okay sound stop it from being a true classic though.
Honey, I shrunk the iPod! The new nano has all the features of its big brother, the Classic, but in a smaller package with fewer gigabytes.
Short of setting up duplicate systems, testing new software can be a hairy exercise. Here's another way: use virtual OSes like VMWare and Virtual PC as your testing platform.
Microsoft's Windows Services for Unix will be most useful if you've already made the decision to switch platforms. This free download will also make life easier for Unix experts who need to use a Windows desktop system.
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