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    2Clix's decision to take legal action against Whirlpool means the company has already lost the battle to hide negative comments about its accounting software.

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    According to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's 2007 annual report, Australian consumers should feel pretty safe but that's because it's full of crap.

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    Apple resellers cast doubts on iPhone release

    The founder of Apple community site MacTalk has either uncovered the biggest Australian tech news story of the year. Or he's one mischievous bugger.

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    Welcome to Reality Check -- the blog that demystifies Web 2.0 and what it means to your organisation.

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    Now I don't want to call myself a prognosticator -- much less intimate that I had any influence over the following decision -- but in the weeks since I blogged about Channel Ten's lack of an online strategy, things have certainly changed.

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    The popular Web syndication's brand of flexibility promises to make life difficult for all those attempting to bring order to the natural chaos that defines the Internet.

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    Microsoft has staff investigating software that will find and summarise all the news items in which an individual is interested.

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  • Tech Guide: How to read RSS feeds

    Want to know how to set up and use an RSS feed? Here's the low-down.

  • FeedDemon

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  • No time to surf? Download the Web to your PDA

    If you want to browse the Web but don't have time, why not download what you need to read to your PDA and look at it later? Here's three apps that'll let you do just that.

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