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Search becomes No. 2 Web activity

Using a search engine is now the No. 2 activity for US-based Web users, research has found. Read more »

Microsoft-Yahoo deal: Playing the numbers game

Examined using several different metrics, Microsoft's bid for Yahoo could create one of the world's largest Web companies. 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 »

Microsoft sues over Google hire

Opening a new chapter in its rivalry with Google, Microsoft on Tuesday sued the search giant and a former Microsoft executive that Google had tapped to run its China operations. Read more »

Sydney's disadvantaged get free computer training and Web access

Disadvantaged Sydneysiders have been given a chance to learn new computer skills and gain free access to the Internet with the newly announced "BootUp Internet Cafés" initiative. Read more »

Microsoft upgrades search

Microsoft is set to launch on Wednesday in the US the beta version of its new Windows Live Search page, which uses the same behind-the-scenes technology as MSN Search but will eventually become the company's sole search offering. Read more »

Yahoo, Microsoft join IM hands

Yahoo and Microsoft have announced plans to make their instant-messaging services interoperable in what analysts called a shot to market leader America Online's AOL Instant Messenger and a defensive jab to newcomer Google. Read more »

Yahoo-eBay deal a Google-buster?

Yahoo and eBay are gunning for Google, whether they'll admit to it or not. Read more »

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Thirty years with computers

I started using computers in 1974, when I was still in high school. My first computer took up an entire room and yet had only five kilobytes of RAM. Read more »

Australian Web sites blasted in usability stakes

The Web sites of some of Australia's largest organisations have been given a poor report card from the world's leading online usability think tank. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • 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

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