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Google in ACCC sights, Sensis wriggles

The Federal Court has set a hearing date for the ACCC's allegations against Google of misleading and deceptive conduct, while the Trading Post is hoping to settle with the regulator. Read more »

Sensis settles with ACCC, Google takes dock in June

Sensis has settled with the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC) regarding a number of alleged breaches of the Trade Practices Act, committed online by its classified advertising publication The Trading Post. Read more »

Google denies ACCC's deceptive conduct charges

Google Australia has labelled claims of misleading and deceptive conduct made against the search engine provider by consumer watchdog ACCC as being without merit. Read more »

Google accused of selling search results

Google claims to rank search results by relevance, but the search engine engages in deceptive conduct by selling off the top positions to commercial partners, a Sydney court has heard. Read more »

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  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

  • Staff Adobe briefly considered its own browser

    Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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