Microsoft Fires Up DreamSpark For Students Microsoft has released the DreamSpark student program, a broad range of free development and design software tools for students.
Is Microsoft Setting Up Its Own App Store? According to a report in macworld.com, Microsoft is set to launch a Web site called Skymarket to sell Windows Mobile OS applications.
Microsoft Releases More Secure Version Of IE8 Microsoft this morning released the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser without much of the usual fanfare but it has stopped short of naming an official ship date for the final consumer version.
QuickBooks Goes Online For The iPhone According to macworld.com, QuickBooks Online for the iPhone has been released, which allows the viewing of all financial information from iPhone?s Safari web browser.
Sensis Ready For War Over Being Free Following our story last week on the impending legal stoush between Telstra subsidiary Sensis and online auction upstart OZtion, it seems the term ?free? is all up to the interpretation.
Sensitive Sensis Gets Touch Feely Over Freebies It looks like the online auction space is getting a bit snippy, as Melbourne-based online auction site OZtion has released a copy of a demand letter it has received from rival online auction site owner Sensis.
Sanity Goes Crazy With Online & Kiosk-Based Music Store Sanity Entertainment has announced the launch of what it says is the first online music subscription service in Australia for Microsoft?s Windows Media Player, and one that will be available through retail kiosks soon.
GPS Vendors Combine To Provide Electronic Traffic Control The main GPS & Navigation vendors in Australia have been brought together this morning under the umbrella of SUNA and will be providing enhanced, value-added traffic management services to urban areas and advice to purchasers of such well-known GPS systems as TomTom, Navman, Garmin, Mio and Pioneer.
Ice TV Releases iPhone App Ice TV has the released its iPhone application, which allows users to do everything the IceTV Interactive website does.
Google Finally Admits That Size Matters According to reports, after many years of dodging the question of how big is its web index, Google has finally come clean and announced it has found 1 trillion unique Web pages.
ACCC Punishes Fairfax Over Not So Free Service What?s in a word?---plenty it seems as Fairfax Digital has been rapped over the knuckles by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over its advertisements representing the Domain mobile phone property listing search service as 'free', which were found to be misleading.
Google Growth Follows Economy & Slows Down According to Reuters, Google earned $US1.25 billion during the three months ended in June. That represented a 35 per cent increase from net income of $US925 million at the same time last year.
Microsoft Profit A Bit Light Thanks To Credit Slump Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, posted a fourth-quarter profit that gave a disappointing forecast after the U.S. credit crunch crimped sales, sending its shares down 5.7 per cent.
Customer 2.0--Social Networking Sites The New Business Tool According to a recent survey by Gartner and other analysts, the majority of users of social networking sites are motivated mainly by ?personal needs and a desire for entertainment, rather than business and practical objectives?. However some have seen the potential of such sites for business.
Pioneer To Finally Launch Blu-ray Recorders According to Reuters, Pioneer plans to launch Blu-ray DVD recorders by the end of the year, taking aim at a rapidly growing market after the end of a bitter format battle.
Firefox Running Hot On The Internet According to online analysts firm Net Applications, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 browser is now being used by over 19 per cent of web surfers.
Mac OS X Increasing Its Global Market Share According to reports, Apples OS X operating system market share has increased by some 32 per cent last year, according to data from an Internet metrics company.
Adobe Rolls Out Web-Based Rich Media Search Adobe Systems has announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).
Top Asia-Pacific Search Engines Revealed According to comScore, Google sites led the region with 39.1 per cent of all searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! With 24 per cent and Baidu.com at 16.7 per cent.
LinkedIn Gets $56M Injection & Excites Advertisers Business Networking site LinkedIn said that it has received $AUD 56 million in venture capital funding from Bain Capital Ventures and three existing investors in exchange for a 5 per cent stake in the $1 Billion company.
Telstra Launches Small Business Service Telstra is launching a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform called T-Suite to supply on-demand business applications more efficiently to Australian businesses.
Adobe Profits Edge Towards $1 Billion In the second quarter of 2008, Adobe has achieved sales revenue of $AUD 943.6 million, compared to $AUD793.1 million reported for the second quarter of fiscal 2007 which represents 19 per cent year-over-year revenue growth.
Opera Sings Praises Of New Fast Browser For those that feel the need for speed ? browser speed that is, Opera is unveiling its latest browser version tomorrow, which is supposed to soup up this very much underrated browser product.
TomTom Rolls Out Map Sharing Software As roads are changing by as much as 15 per cent every year, TomTom has introduced Map Share in Australia, which allows users to easily improve their maps as soon as they spot changes in the roads with a few touches on the screen of their device.
New Apple OS Designed For Business Users As channelnews reported last week, Apple will be releasing new version of its Mac OS X dubbed "Snow Leopard?, which will be aimed at not just home users, but the enterprise market as well.
Forget The iPhone - Apple To Release OS 10.6 According to a number of Mac user blogs and web sites, inlcuding TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog), Apple will provide the first copies of Mac OS 10.6 at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opens on Monday in San Francisco.
Internet Explorer 8 Out By August According to various reports, Microsoft has set the release window for the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 to sometime in August.
Easybiz Search Engine Platform For SMBs Easybiz, a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)-based business directory has released its commercial platform that provides small businesses with a value-for-money means of building the type of SEO-enabled website.
Apple Gives Leopard New Spots Apple has released Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 to correct compatibility issues, and a security update that fixes vulnerabilities.
Viacoms Anti-Google Lawsuit Has Huge Implications Be afraid, be very, very afraid, for if a lawsuit by Viacom against Google is successful, it will potentially have far-reaching and massive implications for internet users everywhere, including Australia.
Microsoft Opens Up Office Support for Open Document Formats (ODF) and Portable Document Formats (PDF) will be included in Microsoft Office Service Pack 2, expected to be out in 12 months, according to a report in techworld.com.
MYOB Moves Into Online Services MYOB has moved into the online services sector with its new business grade web hosting solutions, paving the way for its back office business management systems to integrate with small business websites, the company says.
Apple Sprouts And Helps Microsoft Out According to a number of reports, Apple is selling more computers than ever before in its history, which is then having unexpected flow on benefits for a number of Microsoft products.
New Search Engine Service Launched Today Fairfax Digital and Melbourne IT have combined to form a new joint venture called Advantate, designed to give the SME market in Australia and New Zealand simple, cost-effective access to search engine marketing services.
Is Microsoft Now Eyeing Facebook? Like a spurned Hollywood starlet, the list of suitors to which Microsoft has been linked to in the past 10 days since it walked away from its intended marriage to Yahoo is growing by the day, with AOL, Facebook and MySpace among the better known candidates.
MYOB Not Just A Flash In The Pan Flash Advertising has landed account software provider MYOB in a $2.5 million advertising deal that will significantly boost the agency?s revenue.
So Where To Now For Microsoft? With Microsoft's recent decision to drop its purchase of Yahoo, the pressure is on Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losing Internet business succeed against Google, says a report in Bloomberg.com.
Internode Launches Free Usenet Service Broadband company Internode is now providing its customers with free access to Australia?s premium Usenet service.
Microsoft Makes Users Wait For SP3 They say all good things come to those that wait, but I am unsure that phrase was meant for software updates. So for those waiting for the next service pack for Windows XP, you will have to wait a bit longer.
Dell Says To Hell With XP Deadline According to reports, Dell has said it will sell and support Windows XP to its customers beyond the 30 June cut-off date set by Microsoft.
Web Service For Microsoft Office Updates On Friday, Microsoft announced the launch of Albany a new subscription service of essential productivity and security software and services.
Windows XP SP3 Date Finally Known According to reports from the Neowin.net website, Microsoft will release its long-awaited Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to users via a Windows Update on April 29.
Reboot Redux Coming Up For Microsoft According to techworld.com, within days Microsoft will resume the automatic distribution of a failed Windows Vista update that some two months ago sent many PCs into an endless and frustrating wave of reboots.
Say Hello To Yahoo Yahoo last week unveiled their enhanced oneSearch software that allows users to surf the Internet simply by speaking into their mobile phones.
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