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Google tools to help users keep ISPs fair

Google is developing a suite of tools to help broadband users identify traffic discrimination by their internet service providers (ISPs). Read more »

Speedy Opera 10 beta reconfigures as web suite

Opera 10 has entered beta with the unexpressed goal of becoming more than a mere browser. Read more »

Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source

It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it's releasing BrowserPlus software as open source software. Read more »

Ad dollars for the Star Wars Kid?

Forget Google. The Internet's real killer app has always been the strange little amateur videos, like the Star Wars Kid or the Numa Numa Dance, that find explosive popularity almost overnight. Read more »

'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says

The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"--a large network of zombified home PCs according to Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies. Read more »

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Google VP's view of the Web

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf spoke to an enthusiastic crowd overflowing into the halls of the University of New South Wales this morning Read more »

Get in quick for Microsoft Office Beta

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- Want a copy of Microsoft's latest Office 2007 Beta? Get in quickly 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 »

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  • 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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