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  • Yahoo search flags dangerous Web sites

    Yahoo is using McAfee's SiteAdvisor to warn users of harmful Web sites appearing in its search results but a security researcher warns the technology has a repuation for giving false positives.

  • Mobile ads: A threat to your privacy?

    Your mobile phone is a potential gold mine for marketers: It can reveal where you are, whom you call and even what music you like.

  • Intel + Linux = iPhone killer?

    Intel is looking to succeed where others including Noka and Palm have failed to set the world alight, and deliver a Linux-based Internet device by 2010, which could challenge the success of the iPhone.

  • Google Desktop released for Linux

    Google has today launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux, a sign of growing support by the Internet giant for Linux on the desktop.

  • Canonical refines mobile Ubuntu Linux

    Ubuntu backer Canonical has pinned down some broad feature lists for its upcoming version of Linux for smaller mobile devices.

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  • How Telstra recovered when BlackBerry went pear-shaped

    Many times, service providers don't know anything has gone wrong until they're hit by a flood of user complaints. Such was the case for Telstra when its BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in Sydney came crashing down one day.

  • Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog

    A U-turn by Microsoft on abbreviating Web logs may portend a looming bandwidth crunch.

  • A billion PC users on the way

    By the end of the decade, a billion people will be clicking away at computers, but generating a profit out of newly wired portions of the world is going to take a lot of work.

  • Best practices for monitoring Exchange 5.5

    Here's a group of tips that can help an administrator get up to speed on what to monitor on a Microsoft Exchange 5.5 system.

  • SharePoint: Why not?

    In many organisations, expansion of Microsoft's SharePoint technologies seems to be inevitable due to unofficial grassroots adoption and standardisation on Microsoft Office. However, other options should still be evaluated, says Meta Group.

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  • Tech Guide: Timesaving Outlook tips

    Most of us have to use Microsoft Outlook for our day-to-day organisation and communication, so it's a good idea to learn some of its secrets. Here's a guide to get you started.

  • 2004: The year of the smart phone? Yes and no

    Smart phones have been one of the big subjects of 2003. But how close are we to the dream of a single device, great for voice, multimedia and various data apps, one equally at home in a high-powered meeting or down the pub?

  • The laptops that come in from the cold

    For those organisation who lose hundreds of thousands dollars worth of laptops to thieves each year, the humiliation of the loss is possibly as infuriating a burden to bare as the financial costs associated with it. However these organisations can assuage some of their distress knowing that their problems are shared by one of the world's most powerful law enforcement agencies. In May, thieves reduced the size of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's laptop fleet by 182, in one operation. If the FBI can't keep its laptops safe from thieves who can?

  • Microsoft's biggest Office XP fear: Pirates

    Pirates ahoy! Microsoft prepares to do battle. When Microsoft releases Office XP in a few months, the company will face off against its two toughest competitors: software pirates and, well, Microsoft.

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