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Yahoo opens up search, invites developers to party

Yahoo announced on Thursday that it is opening up its search platform to third-party developers. The company also says it will be supporting the semantic Web. Read more »

Green IT is number one priority: Gartner

The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner. Read more »

Thin computing: Low-fat but is it green?

Desktop virtualisation can address IT budgetary and environmental pressures but datacentre experts warn that the technologies can simply create similar problems elsewhere. Read more »

CA executive pleads guilty

A former Computer Associates executive pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice charges Wednesday in the US, marking yet another company executive to be swept up in the controversial financial fraud case that marred the reputation of the software company. Read more »

Oracle: Linux adoption to accelerate in medium term

Linux adoptions are to grow in the next three to five years at nearly triple the rate of Windows, according to Oracle. Read more »

New ACS president named

Technology lawyer Philip Argy has been elected president of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for the next two years, taking over the reigns from Edward Mandla. Read more »

Internet2: 2004 and beyond

Internationally acclaimed violinist and conductor Pinchas Zukerman doesn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in the way of reaching his students. Read more »

Oracle joins Microsoft developer program

Oracle has pledged to make its database software work better with Microsoft's development tools. Read more »

CA pins hopes on open source

The software company will announce a financial and development commitment to open source at its user conference later this month. Read more »

Blog (2)

Yahoo open search: Good for users, but great for Yahoo

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Yahoo is making a big deal of its new open search initiative. This program, not yet live, will allow site publishers to influence the way the Yahoo search engine displays results for their sites. Read more »

LinuxWorld Conference

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is bearing down upon us! Read more »

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