Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, is making steady if unspectacular progress in its bid to wrest a bigger share of the lucrative US search and advertising market away from Google.
The head of the US Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules on Monday that would require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally.
TomTom has responded to Microsoft's patent suit by filing a patent claim of its own against the software maker.
Spammers knocked offline two weeks ago when their hosting company, McColo, was shut down are finally coming back online, security researchers said this week.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has thrown a bucket of cold water on the notion that the software giant could return with a new bid for all of Yahoo.
I have seen the NBN, and it looks a lot like Christina Aguilera. Or, at least, it looked like her when I dropped into Ericsson's Melbourne headquarters recently to see a live demo of their NBN solutions. Yet behind the streaming TV, one question lingers -- and not even the government seems able to answer it.
I caved in. I had all intentions of pre-emptively spending my $900 government handout on a $700 HP netbook this weekend. But I was pwned by a shiny little MacBook in about the time it took white hat Charlie Miller to hack its upscale brother, the MacBook Air.
Sprint's WiMAX roll-out in Baltimore will prove the Australian government's decision to worm its way out of the Opel WiMAX contract was a short-sighted, and ultimately damaging, political stunt that has benefited nobody.
You hear a lot about mashups in Web 2.0 -- where one data source is combined with another to produce a new application where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- but the musical version of the term is far more apposite to corporate uses of 2.0 techniques than anything which relies on Google Maps APIs.
The equivalent of an electronic tidal wave -- originating from the Microsoft campus in Redmond -- hammered the ZDNet Australia servers earlier this week.
Twitter coverage of the AFACT vs. iiNet trial is breathing new life into court reporting. Why don't we as a society take the next step and stream it all live to the internet, video and audio?
Twitter is not the great evil for journalists and media. In fact, it is helping to renew the media and bring that great lady called "journalism" back to her rightful throne.
In Washington and Silicon Valley circles, betting has already begun on who will be the nation's first chief technology officer.
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.
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Washington. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts.
Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper explains why the upcoming OS is so important to Microsoft and the rest of the tech industry.
Outlook has been copping some heat lately, largely for attracting virus writers, while Thunderbird has been getting all of the good press. We examine the two products, and other e-mail clients available today, so you can see if replacing Outlook really is an option.
While XP SP2 is a huge step forward for Microsoft, there are important caveats. For example, don't expect the new Windows Firewall to prevent keystroke-logging Trojans from stealing your credit card info.
NewsGator is a worthwhile RSS newsreader for anyone who lives inside Outlook, but the rest of us should look elsewhere.
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