Microsoft has confirmed more details of its forthcoming Live Drive service, which will offer free online storage. Speaking at a blogger’s breakfast before the opening of Microsoft’s Tech Ed conference in Sydney on Tuesday,...
Mozilla has accepted Microsoft’s offer of help in porting Firefox to Vista, but some issues still need to be ironed out Mozilla has accepted Microsoft’s offer of help towards ensuring interoperability between Firefox and the...
At least five employees of Apple’s retail stores have been fired after downloading copies of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard from the Internet that were distributed to developers at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference two weeks ago....
Microsoft may offer cheap copies of new operating system Vista in a bid to get people to upgrade. Although Vista has been beset with delays and is now not expected until January at the earliest, Microsoft bosses have told US media that...
The key to any successful Web 2.0 deployment is the availability of an open API. It’s a key that Google is now giving out for its base — Google Base that is. The Google Base Data API is now freely available from Google, allowing...
Red Hat and Novell, the two top Linux sellers, have only just begun building Xen virtualisation software into their products. But they’re already planning to add a higher-level option. Xen is a “hypervisor” that lets...
Yahoo is testing a new security feature that lets users customize their login page, a measure designed to thwart information-thieving phishing scams. The feature requires people to create a unique “sign-in seal” on a specific...
No more trips to the shop Nokia has quietly introduced a DIY firmware upgrade service so phone owners can update their phones over the air, or via a PC connected to the internet, and no longer need to visit a service centre to update the...
Offers Vista support olive-branch… but does Mozilla need its help? The head of Microsoft’s open source business has offered help to get Firefox to work with the upcoming Vista operating system but it remains to be seen if Mozilla...
The search giant’s online word processor will compete with Microsoft’s Office Live strategy, and a host of other players jostling for a slice of this billion-dollar market Five months after being bought by Google, the Writely...
Web 2.0 technology provides ‘desktop-like functionality’ US communications company AT&T and internet giant Yahoo have launched a web-based photo community service designed to make it easier for people to share digital photo...
Young people using Windows Live Messenger or MSN Messenger to chat online with friends can now makes a report to police with one click if they are concerned their online ‘buddy’ is a sex offender. Microsoft has partnered with...