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  • Google plays with Gears, ready to unveil Docs?

    News from the blogosphere today has indicated that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready Web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears.

  • Software tool smothers sponsored search

    For one software maker, the fight to block overbearing Web advertisements such as pop-ups is shifting to the ad industry's hottest sector: commercial search

  • Vista search changes not enough: Google

    Google on Monday said it's still not convinced that Microsoft's planned tweaks to Windows Vista go far enough to head off its antitrust concerns.

  • Microsoft answering Google's wake-up call?

    Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn't necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft's eyes.

  • Santy worm squished by Google

    Google has responded to calls from antivirus firms to stop the spread of an Internet worm that was using the search engine's technology to spread among online bulletin boards.

  • AltaVista to launch new search software

    AltaVista is set to introduce a new software product designed to help businesses conduct quick searches through multiple sources of corporate data, from their own Web sites to employee emails.

  • Searching for the phantom bendy bus brake bug

    Sydney bus drivers have refused to drive all of the city's articulated or "bendy" buses, because of alleged problems with their electronic braking system.

  • Oracle unveils first hardware product

    Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive.

  • Adobe CS4 hits BitTorrent

    Little more than a week after its global launch, Adobe's Creative Suite 4 has shown up on popular BitTorrent tracking sites in large numbers.

  • Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap

    Adobe is launching an online community with a word processor and file sharing, while adding Flash and interactive maps to Acrobat 9.

  • Google in Australia-wide hunt for top techie talent

    Google Australia will this week run recruitment drives in Australian capital cities as the local arm of the software giant searches the nation for new engineering talent.

  • Callers beware, Customs knows where you are

    Customs plans on rolling out a system to identify a caller's location and what phone system they are using, however it has yet to reveal whether it will cross reference calls with Australia's national caller database.

  • Mozilla's Google deal extended

    Mozilla and Google have extended a search deal through 2011, providing some financial security to the backer of the open source Firefox Web browser.

  • Is your IT department sitting on a gold mine?

    Australian firms can now make money out of software developed in-house with the help of a new intellectual property specialist start-up.

  • Google releases new Android mobile kit

    Earlier this week, Google released a new version of the software developer kit for its Android mobile open development platform.

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