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'Anonymous' knocks PM, ACMA offline

The loose alliance of internet pests known as 'Anonymous' temporarily knocked websites belonging to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Australian Communications and Media Authority offline last night. Read more »

Australian Twitter use hits all-time high

Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth. Read more »

Lundy: Time is right for open source in government

Open source might get a better look-in within government, says Senator Kate Lundy, if those responsible for purchasing decisions were forced by policy to evaluate all the options on the market. Read more »

MySpace launches Facebook-like app platform

In a bid to keep up with Facebook, social network behemoth MySpace launched its beta application platform to Australian developers last night. Read more »

Porn-blocker hit as Razor Gang slash AU$30m off tech

The Rudd government's so-called Razor Gang has taken the blade to some of the Howard government's pre-election promises for the 2007-08 fiscal year, including AU$30 million sliced from the federal tech budget. Read more »

Google launches local election coverage

Google Australia have launched what they describe as a world-first foray into local elections, with detailed online coverage of the upcoming Australian federal election. Read more »

John Howard's team revise history on Wikipedia

A tool used to discover the source of changes in Wikipedia has uncovered edits made by a number of Australian government organisations, including the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Department of Defence. Read more »

MS delays Yukon and Whidbey -- again

Microsoft has said the forthcoming release of its SQL Server database and Visual Studio.NET development tool will be delayed--again. Read more »

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Aussie IT unions rise from the dead

Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around. Read more »

Labor should promise the kids XO, not XP

Should Labor get into power at the federal election next month, its promised "education revolution" rebate would be better spent on the world's largest single order for Negroponte's XO laptop instead of being a boon for traditional PC retailers and a certain software vendor from Redmond. Read more »

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Hackers attack government websites

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- A hackers' alliance staged a denial-of-service attack on websites of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ACMA on Wednesday night. Read more of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Bloated code is bad for working families

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- It's hard to argue with large and bloated as adjectives, but streamlined is debatable. MinWin comes in at a hefty 25MB and for that price you don't even get graphical output. Read more »

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    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 »

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