Australians will inevitably demand improved broadband speeds for both upstream and downstream connections, "father of the Internet" and Google vice president Vint Cerf said today.
On Tuesday in the US, JotSpot, which provides a hosted service mainly to corporate customers for building wikis, announced that it had been acquired by Google. Executives aren't saying how much Google spent on the three-year-old company, but they were, not surprisingly, eager to say how well the two company's online offerings dovetail.
Office Live is still not an online version of Office, but the set of small business tools has a few new tricks and is heading out of beta.
A new Google tool will let people use Google's search platform to create search engines focused on the content of their choice.
In a twist on phishing, cybercrooks are hijacking instant-messaging (IM) accounts to lure people to their information-thieving Web sites.
Gartner analysts predict there will be a large-scale shift in technology influence toward consumers and away from central corporate IT departments.
update: Samsung's US Web site is hosting a Trojan horse that logs keystrokes, disables antivirus applications and steals online banking access codes, according to Internet security firm Websense.
Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders.
Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software.
The next version of Microsoft Office will be "dramatically better" as a platform for creating applications, according to Bill Gates, Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect.
Although it has taken Microsoft five years to develop the next version of Windows, the software maker seems to crank out a new Windows Live service every five minutes.
OS X contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago, according to a security researcher credited with finding numerous bugs in Apple's increasingly popular platform.
Ninemsn chief information officer Richard Ang is set to move to the United States after accepting the role of director of operations for Mobile and MSN Spaces, Microsoft's blog hosting unit.
Aiming to woo users of Lotus Notes, Microsoft is releasing software designed to help companies switch to its own line of collaboration tools.
Microsoft on Thursday in the United States will unveil a beta version of Windows Live Local, which is based on its Virtual Earth aerial image application and integrates local search, mapping, driving directions and yellow pages with a bird's-eye view of major U.S. cities.
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