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Google stingy on malware handout?
To entice security researchers to look for holes in the Chrome browser, Google has announced it will pay US$500 for bugs found in the code. But several experts have said that's not enough money to motivate skilled vulnerability researchers. Read more »
iPhone virus adds botnet powers
In a similar fashion to the relatively benign ikee virus that was recently released, another iPhone virus is targeting jailbroken Australian devices and builds botnet functionality into it, according to computer security firm, Sophos. Read more »
Microsoft releases Silverlight 4 beta
Microsoft's fourth-generation answer to Adobe Flash, Silverlight 4, was released overnight at the software giant's 2009 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Read more »
Rickroll virus targets iPhones
An Australian has released a virus for the Apple iPhone, ikee, which replaces the infected device's background picture with an image of Rick Astley. Read more »
Twitter hack strikes Obama, Britney Spears
An unknown party has hacked into the Twitter accounts of high-profile users of the micro-blogging and social networking service such as US President-Elect Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and Fox News anchor Bill O'Riley. Read more »
IE7 under attack from 'accidental' zero-day exploit
Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) users are threatened by a zero-day exploit that may have been "accidentally" let loose by Chinese security researchers, is expected to cause havoc over the holiday period, according to several security companies. Read more »
Microsoft shows Singularity with OS from the lab
Microsoft used its annual TechFest gathering of research lab technicians in Redmond last week to launch a new prototype operating system called Singularity. Read more »
War rages on over Microsoft's OOXML plans
What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other? Read more »
Hack turns iPhone into spy-phone
US security consultant, Rick Farrow, has used H D Moore's security testing tool, Metasploit, to crack the iPhone, which allows a hacker to do anything the iPhone user can, but remotely. Read more »
Dell buys in to Microsoft-Novell pact
Dell has become the first PC maker to put its support behind Microsoft and Novell's effort to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux server computing. Read more »
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Don't make assumptions about co-workers based on their behaviour
There are a lot of things you can control at your workplace, but a fellow employee is not one of them. Read more »
Reviewing scheduled task inventory for Windows Server 2008 R2
Default installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 enumerate a number of default scheduled tasks, many of which you may not need. Read more »
The pros and cons of using Twitter as a server notification tool
Twitter is breaking out of its "look at me" shackles and has real business value. This article suggests using Twitter for server notifications. Read more »
Hyper-V R2 scalability and cross-processor migration features introduced
Microsoft has been racing to catch up in the enterprise virtualisation space, and the company's efforts appear to be bearing fruit. Feature sets and scalability are quickly making gains against market leader VMware. This article introduces two new Hyper-V R2 features that are coming and contrasts them against similar VMware offerings. Read more »
10 midyear resolutions for net admins
We've put together a list of resolutions aimed at helping net admins line up their priorities, effectively deal with the day-to-day issues, and plan and execute improvements. Read more »
Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge
With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »
The Mobile Future
The next battle for the hearts and minds of internet developers will be fought on the mobile phone. Read more »
Aussie coders changing the world
Though they may not be household names like Thorpie or Lleyton, Aussie developers rank among the world's best. Simon Sharwood profiles our top five geeks. Read more »
Designing for distant shores, part 2
In our final part in our series on selling software overseas, Angus Kidman identifies the business issues you'll need to address. Read more »
Australian open source winners announced
The winners of the annual Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group's open source awards were announced in Sydney this week. Read more »
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Aussie creates iPhone virus
-- An Aussie hacker has created a worm that places a background picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones that have SSH enabled, and released its source code. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Get Ready for This
-- It seems software developers are quite a musical bunch. Microsoft
have a band called "band on the runtime" which play cover songs like
"VB.NET" to the tune of the Villiage People's YMCA, and Richard
Stallman sings his woeful Free Software song. Read more »
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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 »
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Google launches Apps MarketplaceGoogle 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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