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Microsoft Surface sold in Oz next week

Microsoft will start selling its Surface tabletop multi-touch system in Australia next week after a formal launch. Read more »

Google to make Gmail a little more social

Google is getting ready to add social-networking features into Gmail as it attempts to jump-start its social Web strategy. Read more »

Microsoft denies Windows 7 battery problem

Although some users have been grumbling about a variety of battery issues related to Windows 7, Microsoft says that its testing shows that nothing is amiss. Read more »

Mozilla drops Mac OS X 'Tiger' support

Mozilla has announced that future versions of the Firefox browser will no longer support Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger'. Read more »

Microsoft readies Office 2010 upgrade program

It is not uncommon for Microsoft to launch a "technology guarantee" program ahead of a new version of Office or Windows, offering buyers of a product late in one cycle an upgrade to the new version once it comes out. So it's not a shocker that Microsoft has one planned for Office 2010. Read more »

Google Apps gains remote admin controls for mobile

Google has launched new controls that let businesses remotely manage their employees' iPhone, Nokia E-series and Windows Mobile devices from the Google Apps control panel. Read more »

Microsoft investigates new Internet Explorer flaw

Microsoft said on Wednesday that it is investigating another flaw in Internet Explorer, this time a vulnerability that could result in an unauthorised disclosure of information for users running its browser on older operating systems. Read more »

Why Facebook's HipHop for PHP is important

Facebook formally announced a long-rumoured project it has been working on called HipHop for PHP. Read more »

Windows 7 market share tops 10%

Windows 7 hit another milestone this past weekend, with the operating system accounting for one in 10 computers accessing the web, according to Net Applications. Read more »

Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas

Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS. Read more »

Greasemonkey comes to Chrome

Greasemonkey scripts are an easy way to create single-serving enhancements for Firefox, and now they work natively on Google Chrome, too. Read more »

Office 2010 hits the release candidate stage

Microsoft has provided some early testers with a near-final "release candidate" version of Office 2010 as the software maker works to make the suite broadly available in June. Read more »

IT Jobs: Are you paid enough?

Hudson ICT has released its annual salary guide with a breakdown of salary ranges across the IT industry from senior managers to graduate developers. Read more »

Kaspersky: Target zombie servers too

Russian antivirus tsar, Eugene Kaspersky, says Australian ISPs should not only cut off malware-infected personal computers but also infected web servers run by businesses. Read more »

Tide turns against IE6 as usage drops

Firefox usage remained level and Google's Chrome continued to pull ahead of Apple's Safari, but the most notable change in January's browser usage statistics is that the reviled Internet Explorer 6 no longer is the most common. Read more »

Aussie execs speak out on Apple's iPad

Key figures in Australia's information and communications technology community have been exuberant about the Apple iPad, calling it everything from "kick-ass" to a device that would be a tool for executives. Read more »

Chrome 5 debuts more settings options

Google updated its Chrome browser's developer's builds to version 5 for Windows and Mac today, the first time any version of Chrome has reached that milestone. Read more »

Google phasing out support for IE6

Google has clearly had enough with Internet Explorer 6. Read more »

Aussies get iPad in March, 'can't confirm' 3G

Apple has today declined to reveal whether the iPad 3G model would be available in Australia. Read more »

Google Social Search out of Labs, into beta

Friends on social-networking services who add links to their content inside their Google Profiles will start showing up in search results for Google users. Read more »

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