Google Growth Follows Economy & Slows Down According to Reuters, Google earned $US1.25 billion during the three months ended in June. That represented a 35 per cent increase from net income of $US925 million at the same time last year.
Microsoft Appoints Virtual Earth Manager Microsoft Australia has announced the appointment of Peter Ulm as business development manager for Microsoft’s Virtual Earth business across Australia and New Zealand.
Google Profit Up But Fails To Excite Market Googles profit disappointed analysts' estimates for the third time since the Internet company became publically listed as spending on new projects surged, which sent its stock down by as much as 12 per cent according to Bloomberg.com.
Firefox Running Hot On The Internet According to online analysts firm Net Applications, Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 browser is now being used by over 19 per cent of web surfers.
Mac OS X Increasing Its Global Market Share According to reports, Apples OS X operating system market share has increased by some 32 per cent last year, according to data from an Internet metrics company.
Microsoft Says Goodbye To Windows XP For Good As of close of business this afternoon, Microsoft will stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers, regardless of protests from a swathe of PC users who don't want to be forced into using Vista.
Top Asia-Pacific Search Engines Revealed According to comScore, Google sites led the region with 39.1 per cent of all searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! With 24 per cent and Baidu.com at 16.7 per cent.
LinkedIn Gets $56M Injection & Excites Advertisers Business Networking site LinkedIn said that it has received $AUD 56 million in venture capital funding from Bain Capital Ventures and three existing investors in exchange for a 5 per cent stake in the $1 Billion company.
Opera Sings Praises Of New Fast Browser For those that feel the need for speed – browser speed that is, Opera is unveiling its latest browser version tomorrow, which is supposed to soup up this very much underrated browser product.
Forget The iPhone - Apple To Release OS 10.6 According to a number of Mac user blogs and web sites, inlcuding TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog), Apple will provide the first copies of Mac OS 10.6 at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opens on Monday in San Francisco.
Internet Explorer 8 Out By August According to various reports, Microsoft has set the release window for the second beta version of Internet Explorer 8 to sometime in August.
Adobe 9 Upgrade Hits Shelves Adobe has released its Acrobat 9 software, an upgrade that the company claims will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents.
Apple Gives Leopard New Spots Apple has released Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.3 to correct compatibility issues, and a security update that fixes vulnerabilities.
Vista is Officially Dead Here Comes Windows 7 When a Company starts talking about the next model in their line up you know something is wrong particularly if the previous model has been labelled a lemon. Now it appears that the Windows Vista era is done and dusted with Microsoft keen to move onto Windows 7 in an effort to overcome the problems that the ill fated Vista OS will leave behind.
Microsoft Hits Brick Wall With Online Advertising Microsoft has admitted it is struggling to gain online advertisers, with Google gobbling up as much as 60 per cent of the search-based advertising market, according to a report in The Independent.
Microsoft Opens Up Office Support for Open Document Formats (ODF) and Portable Document Formats (PDF) will be included in Microsoft Office Service Pack 2, expected to be out in 12 months, according to a report in techworld.com.
Cyber Detectives Protect Children Online ACMA is partnering with the Victoria Police for the launch of a program, which will take place tomorrow at Coburg North Primary School, giving school children access to the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s (ACMA) online safety activity, Cybersmart Detectives.
PC Piracy Falls Due To Tough Laws Says IDC According to a study released today, software piracy in Australia fell one percentage point from 29 per cent in 2006 to 28 per cent in 2007, amid a global trend in which piracy rates dropped in most countries. Industry losses due to software piracy in Australia also fell to AU $525.4 million in 2007.
MYOB Not Just A Flash In The Pan Flash Advertising has landed account software provider MYOB in a $2.5 million advertising deal that will significantly boost the agency’s revenue.
So Where To Now For Microsoft? With Microsoft's recent decision to drop its purchase of Yahoo, the pressure is on Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losing Internet business succeed against Google, says a report in Bloomberg.com.
Microsoft Makes Users Wait For SP3 They say all good things come to those that wait, but I am unsure that phrase was meant for software updates. So for those waiting for the next service pack for Windows XP, you will have to wait a bit longer.
Dell Says To Hell With XP Deadline According to reports, Dell has said it will sell and support Windows XP to its customers beyond the 30 June cut-off date set by Microsoft.
Web Service For Microsoft Office Updates On Friday, Microsoft announced the launch of Albany a new subscription service of essential productivity and security software and services.
Windows XP SP3 Date Finally Known According to reports from the Neowin.net website, Microsoft will release its long-awaited Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to users via a Windows Update on April 29.
Windows Close To Collapse Too Big Too Slow Two leading Gartner analysts says that Microsoft's flagship Windows, which has dominated desktop computing for decades, is in danger of collapsing.
Google Shocks By Releasing Offline Docs Google says the company will roll out offline functionality to its online office applications over the next few weeks.
Symantec Unveils Norton Ghost 14.0 Symantec has released Norton Ghost 14.0, which backs up and restores a user’s entire PC computer system, including all of its data – applications, settings, folders and files – and offers exclusive remote backup management, encryption and advanced compression features to ensure everything on the PC system is protected.
Adobe Launches Free Online Photo Storage Adobe Systems has released Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects.
Microsoft Beefs Up Security Offering With Aquisition In an effort to beef up their Windows Live One Care offering Microsoft has acquired security firm Komoku who specialise in products that are able to identify root-kits and malicious software.
New Apple Safari Ventures Off To Windows Apple has today released the Safari 3.1, a web browser for Mac and Windows PCs which, the company claims, loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2.
More Bandwidth Chewing Updates For Vista This Week Microsoft is set to release Windows Vista Service Pack (SP1) to the retail channel this week most likely tomorrow, March 19 according to widespread Web reports. And the final release-to-manufacturing (RTM) of Windows XP SP3 is not far behind.
Windows 7 Coming As Vista Bulks Up Bandwidth Costs Court documents in the US have revealed what Microsoft says is not happening; a close to completed version of Microsoft’s next operating system Windows 7 has been coded and exposed to government officials in the USA. It has also been revealed that constant upgrades to the existing Vista OS is costing consumers and business hundreds of dollars in addition bandwidth costs.
Microsoft OZ Cuts Vista OS Price Following lukewarm sales of its Vista operating system, Microsoft Australia is hoping to retrieve lost ground and maybe widen its horizons by slashing up to 40 per cent from the price of boxed retail versions. The price cut is bigger in percentage terms than those in the US, where cuts have averaged 20pc, but lower than than the 47pc UK/EU cuts.
Symantec Launches Improved Norton 360 Computer users will now have a better chance of fending themselves from unknown threats, viruses, and exploit vulnerabilities as Symantec launches its Norton 360 version 2.0.
Intel Chip Performance Blamed For Slow Vista OS, Price Dropped Days after it was revealed by a senior Microsoft executive that the software vendor had made a mistake by underestimating the minimum technical requirements needed to run Windows Vista the company has dropped the price of the underperforming software.
Official Release: Vista Service Pack From March, Vista users will be able to purchase a Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack that aims to secure the over 100 million Vista licenses sold since launch, the owners of which have experienced problems with compatibility and reliability.
Shape Up Your PC For The New Year With a just a little time, effort and very little expense, anyone can make their PC more secure, more efficient and more enjoyable to use this year. Symantec has come up with several tips that will definitely make computing hassle-free this 2008.
Edit HD Content With New Apple Final Cut Software Apple has today released its Final Cut Express 4, a video editing software that has support for the latest AVCHD cameras, allows users to finally put standard and high definition content together on a single timeline.
Convert Speech To Text With Nuance Bundle Nuance Communications will be bundling a Plantronics wireless headset with its Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred Wireless 9 software, giving users the options to create documents, spreadsheets, and e-mail by speaking.
Eset Unveils Total Computer Protection Suite Eset has launched its Eset Smart Security, a software suite that, the company claims, integrates anti-spyware, anti-spam and firewall with a brand new version of NOD32 Antivirus.
Leopard A Leap Ahead Of Vista? Apple has revealed that it sold two million copies of its new Mac OS X Leopard in the first weekend of it going on sale. Microsoft Vista, in its first month since launch sold a total of 20 million copies.
Windows Vista Made To Look Like A Very Sick Puppy Apple has given Microsoft a lesson in software development with the launch of its new Leopard operating system which is faster, slicker and packed with a lot more practical features compared with the slow, underperforming Windows Vista operating system that is prone to crashing or locking-up systems.
Meet The New Apple Leopard OS For Apple the next few months are critical following the release of their new Leopard operating system. Key is whether traditional Windows users will now migrate to their new ambidextrous operating system that allows users to run both the new Mac OS and Windows Vista in a native environment.
Thousands of Windows OS Users Set To Switch To Mac Thousands of consumers and businesses who currently use Windows OS are set to make a switch to an Apple PC, after the release on October 26th of Apple's new Mac OS X Leopard. The move will be driven by the fact that users can run either the Mac OS or Windows Vista under the new software.
Slow & Vulnerable Vista Set To Be Patched Again In an attempt to fix a very slow Vista operating system Microsoft is set to roll out a series of new patches that are designed to fix speed problems.
Adobe To Roll Out New Consumer Image Products After delivering new web and graphic design suites to the Pro markets Adobe is now set to roll out a suite of new products for the consumer market.
Vista Problems To Be Fixed Soon Claim Microsoft Microsoft is only weeks away from releasing a major upgrade for their problematic Vista operating system. We take a look at the changes and the problems that Microsoft say will be fixed.
Apple Tunes Wannabe Rockstars Apple is tuning cadet bands and loner musicians who want to produce their own studio-grade music recordings with a new software suite called Logic Studio.
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