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  • Apple devices hit cafe sweet-spot

    Nearly 50 per cent of devices used to access free wireless across inner city Melbourne and Sydney run Apple operating systems, according to ISP Unwired.

  • US tech stocks bounce back

    The beleaguered Dow Jones Industrial Index surged back up above 9,000 in its largest single-day point gain ever Monday in the US, with Apple, Microsoft, Dell, and other tech companies capturing double-digit gains.

  • Ubuntu debuts Jaunty Jackalope

    The Ubuntu project has detailed plans for the April 2009 version of its Linux distribution, continuing its habit of naming its software after animals by dubbing Ubuntu 9.04 "The Jaunty Jackalope".

  • 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.

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    The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry.

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    The remaking of the post-Trujillo era of Telstra continues apace, with Catherine Livingstone starting to put her own stamp on what was a fractious and fractured boardroom.

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    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • SanDisk CEO flashes forward to phones

    SanDisk co-founder and CEO Eli Harari continues to fight the good fight against Apple's iPod juggernaut, but even he's starting to look toward the future.

  • Squashing bugs with an Apple fix a day

    Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.

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    Ten years ago, Microsoft executives worried that an Internet platform could threaten Windows. The nightmare now has a name: Google.

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    Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla, talks about the race for the fastest browser engine. Google, Microsoft and Apple are all competing with Mozilla. The competition, he says, is good for users and developers.

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  • Microsoft trying to make Vista iPod friendly

    Microsoft released several patches for Windows Vista on Tuesday, including one designed to put the iPod and the new operating system back on speaking terms.

  • Apple-Intel: Winners and losers

    Apple's move to adopt Intel chips will inevitably result in new victors and casualities in the desktop battlefield. Here's a sample.

  • Will iPod suffer fate of the Mac?

    Apple Computer's apparent cold shoulder to RealNetworks this week has once again put the company's "go it alone" strategy in the spotlight.

  • AOL trumpets new Winamp

    America Online on Tuesday released an upgrade for its free Winamp multimedia software, and a fee-based "pro" version that encodes songs into MP3s is expected to follow.

  • Apple tunes up iSync, QuickTime

    The company updates the two software applications as part of an effort to make sure that Macs and mobile phones have plenty to talk about.

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