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Opera looks to India for emerging talent

Opera Software is opening its own office in India to take advantage of local coding talent. Read more »

Microsoft hands out antidote to poisoned URLs

In response to a heightened security alert, Microsoft has updated its customer advisories for protecting its server software against DNS cache poisoning attacks. Read more »

Sun ekes out profit, but revenue slide returns

Sun Microsystems reported on Thursday a profit of US$19 million, or 1 cent per share, for the last quarter of 2004, but the server and software company's revenues once again declined. Read more »

Hotmail rolls out 250MB storage capacity in AU

Microsoft has followed through with its long-awaited plan of increasing Hotmail users' storage capacity to 250MB. Read more »

Norwegian hacker takes a bite out of Apple's iTunes

The Norwegian hacker who broke the DeCSS DVD encryption has now cracked Apple's AirPort technology, which encrypts music sent between iTunes and wireless base stations. Read more »

Users fume over Yahoo-Trillian scuffle

As the IM wars escalate again, consumers are claiming they're the casualties. Read more »

Microsoft to issue security patch for IE

Microsoft will release a software update to Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer designed to protect Web surfers from being lured to Web sites that might contain malicious code, the software giant said this week. Read more »

Suit up or ship out?

Leave the jeans at home, get a haircut and shave those sideburns because the IT industry is tightening its grip on the -dot-com culture" and everything it stands for as managers know that they don't need to compete to hold on to their best employees. Read more »

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Delphi 2005 Architect Review

Borland's Delphi 2005 has just hit the streets here in Australia. Glenn Stephens takes the new IDE out for a spin. Read more »

Take Java 1.5 beta out for a spin

This tip highlights some of the more important changes in Java 1.5 and will hopefully convince you that the new version is worth taking out for a spin--if only to get an idea of what it can do. Read more »

Suit up or shut up

A recent article suggesting that the days of informal dress codes for techies were over has created a storm of controversy. Builder Australia's Brendon Chase has his say on the future of the denim-clad workforce. 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 »

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