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Study: businesses start to embrace Windows 7

A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. Read more »

Will Google Buzz be Wave's demise?

If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch, consider its demise an inside job. Read more »

Going beyond Flash, Adobe shows off web tech

Sure, Adobe Systems spends a lot of effort developing and promoting its Flash technology. And sure, a lot of the new "Open Web" technologies are a competitive threat to Flash. Read more »

Microsoft Outlook makes friends with MySpace

If you use both Outlook and MySpace, you are part of an interesting demographic. But you are also in luck. Read more »

Microsoft IE7's zero-day hole

Microsoft warned of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that has been targeted in attacks, and released fixes for eight holes in Windows and Office as part of Patch Tuesday. Read more »

Chrome dev gets rudimentary HTML5 geolocation

In an update to the development build of Chrome, Google on Thursday introduced a rough version of the native HTML5 geolocation API. Read more »

Microsoft warns of Win XP security hole

Microsoft warned of a new zero-day hole that could be exploited by attackers to take control of older Windows systems running Internet Explorer and for which proof-of-concept exploit code has been released publicly. Read more »

Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5

Internet Explorer fans can now get a taste of the video elements in HTML5 without having to switch browsers. Read more »

Microsoft Outlook intros social-network link

In a move to marry its old-school Office product with the newer trends of the internet, Microsoft has issued beta software that brings social-network information into Outlook. Read more »

Ninemsn injected with malicious code: Websense

Security technology company Websense this week claimed that one of Australia's most highly trafficked websites, ninemsn, had been compromised by an outside party and injected with "malicious code", although the problem area has now been removed from the site. Read more »

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Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC

This article makes the case for using Linux Resource Containers (LXC), which provide the ability to create containers to virtualise processes or systems isolated from the host operating system. Read more »

Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »

Parse and process HTML with WebBrowser

The author describes how he used the WebBrowser control to parse HTML to extract data from it. Here are some of the issues he faced on this simple project. Read more »

When to use mount points for Windows servers

Windows mount points are a common practice in the Exchange world, yet are sometimes misunderstood elsewhere. Here are a few more use cases for mount points. Read more »

Windows Server 2008 R2 changes for core installation

This article outlines the new features in the core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 and discusses which components were removed. Read more »

Five tips for tackling a one-time project

Don't let a one-time project derail your career. Here are tips on how to successfully manage a "once-in-a-career" event. Read more »

Get the most out of your yearly performance review

What you say in your performance review is not all that different than what you would include in your resume. Here are some tips. Read more »

10 things you should never do on a consulting job

There are plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot when you're out on a job. This article lists a few of the worst offences. Read more »

Preparing for Exchange Server 2010's hardware and software requirements

Exchange 2010 is out and about and ready to deploy. This article provides you with some assistance on getting prepared for this latest release in the Exchange line. Read more »

10 questions to ask when selecting open source products for your enterprise

To make sure you realise all the benefits of open source, run these simple background checks on an open source project. Read more »

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Enable 'GodMode' in Windows 7

You don't need to pray to Bill Gates, or even Steve Ballmer, to activate some pretty cool powers in Windows 7. This simple folder hack puts nearly every Windows 7 customisation tweak in one place. Read more »

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Google Apps adopted by 3,000 firms every day

Google Apps has "over 10 million active users" and every day, 3,000 new businesses are signing up, according to Matthew Glotzbach, product management director of Google Enterprise. Read more »

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Captain Obvious vs the Crackpots -- Club Builder

In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference. Read more »

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Russian criminals prefer Australian banks

Russian cyber-crooks prefer targeting Australian banks because we have fewer brands relative to the population, which means social engineering attacks require less customisation, according to Kimberly Zenz, a specialist in criminal activity originating in the former Soviet Union. Read more »

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Microsoft Surface comes to Australia

[blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft Surface finally to hit Australia, Google adds Buzz to the social networking array and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

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Non-professional Oracle wrestling

[blogs:betaliving] -- The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into. Read more »

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Chrome gets bookmark sync with version 4.x

[blogs:syslog] -- Google has issued the first developer preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, a phase that should bring some advanced features in the forthcoming HTML 5 specification for web pages but that for now just sports a cloud-based bookmark synchronisation tool. Read more »

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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

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Google launches Apps Marketplace

Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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