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Sat-nav back seat drivers on their way
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Sat-navs that warn drivers not to speed or can even slow the car automatically could be as little as a year away. [15 May 2008]
Microsoft users surf the skies from the web
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Microsoft has launched its WorldWide Telescope, a free web-based program that allows web surfers to explore galaxies, star systems and distant... [14 May 2008]
Credit crunch failing to hold tech back
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Confidence seems to be high in the UK tech industry that it can avoid the pitfalls of the credit crunch during 2008. [02 May 2008]
Ballmer on Yahoo!: Price in mind and not "a dime" more
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Microsoft chief executive, Steve Ballmer, told employees he has a figure in mind as to what Yahoo! is worth but doesn't plan to pay "a dime above... [02 May 2008]
Microsoft board meets over Yahoo! - but no decisions
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Microsoft's board met yesterday to discuss its stand-off with Yahoo! over its takeover bid but failed to reach a decision on what to do next... [01 May 2008]
Google: Yahoo! tie-up not anti-competitive
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be "non-exclusive" and falls short of an outright... [29 Apr 2008]
Fifa World Cup to get high-tech makeover
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Indian IT company Satyam is promising to "transform" the way fans watch football on the back of its World Cup deal with the game's governing body... [23 Apr 2008]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. [23 Apr 2008]
Open source: 'World's largest software company'
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Open source software is successfully displacing proprietary applications in many large companies and eating into the annual revenues of proprietary... [22 Apr 2008]
Samsung chief steps down after tax indictment
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive South Korea's most powerful businessman said yesterday that he would step down after 20 years at the head of the giant Samsung Group, following his... [22 Apr 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the... [21 Apr 2008]
Red Hat: Linux consumer desktop not on the cards
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Red Hat has quashed speculation that it was planning a consumer desktop version of Linux to compete with Windows, saying it is focused on... [21 Apr 2008]
Microsoft invites hobbyist developers to light a spark
News Photos: The Colossus WWII codebreaking machine Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive Microsoft is trying to foster more interest in embedded software, encouraging amateur developers to experiment with programmable components in... [17 Apr 2008]
Photos of the Month - November 2007
Photo One of the world's first digital computers creaked into life again this month as Bletchley Park's code-cracking Colossus began running for the first time in more than 60 years. The information gained from around 3,000 of these floats around the... [29 Nov 2007]
