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VMware Australia plays down bug

VMware's Australia and New Zealand division today said the local impact was small from a botched software patch that had left some customers unable to start their virtualised environments. Read more »

Q&A: Debian leader on not being in it for the money

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system continues to generate interest from developers around the world, keen to sign up and contribute code to the open-source project now in its 15th year. Read more »

Microsoft and News Corp to bid for Yahoo

A month after Rupert Murdoch said News Corp is too small to compete for Yahoo, the media giant is teaming up with Microsoft in a joint take over bid for Yahoo, which would see MySpace brought into the mix. Read more »

News Corp too small for Yahoo war with Microsoft

Rupert Murdoch has told investors at a US conference that News Corp is too small to fight Microsoft for Yahoo. Read more »

Researchers hack 'tamper-proof' PIN terminals

Researchers from Cambridge University have succeeded in capturing both PIN numbers and card details from supposedly tamper-proof PIN terminals using a paperclip, a needle and some wire. Read more »

Apple's Jobs more powerful than Gates

Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Read more »

MySpace to acquire Photobucket image-sharing site

Social-networking site MySpace, owned by Murdoch's News Corp., has agreed to acquire Photobucket, the Web's No. 1 photo-sharing service, according to a source close to the deal. Read more »

Chuck D lays down the law on DRM

'Just a lot of fucked-up shit' says rapper on consumer experience of DRM. Read more »

MySpace feels the heat

All talk of global warming aside, the record-breaking heat wave that knocked out power infrastructures throughout California will probably be best remembered for making MySpace.com look really bad. Read more »

Gates, Jobs top leadership list

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are atop a new list of the most admired company leaders, as ranked by business decision makers around the world. Read more »

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MySpace in a hot place

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- It seems the now-mainstream MySpace is proving itself just as susceptible to predatory sexual interests as have chat rooms and all manner of other online spaces before it. 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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