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Alliance turns up heat on spam

Yahoo, Microsoft, Comcast and others announced a proposal of best practices for filtering and sending e-mail. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Palin ordered to save e-mails

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin must save any emails she sent from private accounts regarding state business, a US judge ordered late last week. Read more »

Yahoo buys e-mail software firm Zimbra

Yahoo is buying e-mail software provider Zimbra for about $350 million, the companies announced on Monday. Read more »

Microsoft moves on after Yahoo break-up

In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo offer, executives are trying to make the case that Redmond's online business can go it alone. Read more »

Microsoft resumes bashing open source

Will Microsoft lay down its arms, embrace open source and help Thunderbird programmers get their software working with Microsoft's Exchange e-mail server software, or fight them on the beaches? Read more »

Microsoft denies flaw in Vista

Microsoft has confirmed that Vista can be affected by malware from 2004, but argues this is not a flaw in the operating system. Read more »

Will NineMSN or Yahoo7 be Australia's biggest loser?

If Microsoft acquires Yahoo, the deal may leave the pair's joint venture partnerships with PBL Network and the Seven Network on shaky ground. Read more »

Gmail knocked offline for majority of users

Google's Gmail service was knocked offline on Tuesday in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of email users. Read more »

Yahoo uproots HQ from London to Switzerland

Yahoo has confirmed that it is moving its European headquarters from London to Switzerland, even though its possible purchase by Microsoft may alter the plan. Read more »

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Hack attack week

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- It wasn't a good week to be an Alaskan vice-presidential candidate, an online publication or even a multinational science project -- as all were compromised by hackers this week. Read more »

XP stays on life support for longer

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's Roundup looks at Microsoft's decision to extend the life of Windows XP, the release of Microsoft Surface SDK, Firefox's new Geode plug-in, Yahoo's new tool -- Smush It and more. Read more »

The Portal of the Future

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »

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  • Staff Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

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

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett 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 »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff 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 »

    -- posted by Staff

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