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Google adds Android app for Flickr photos

Google adds Android app for Flickr photos

Google's Photostream will let phones running its Android phone operating system view photos stored at Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site.

05/09/2008 02:55 PM

iTunes 8 coming at next week's Apple event?

iTunes 8 coming at next week's Apple event?

Add another possibility to the list of possible announcements at Apple's iPod event next week: a new version of iTunes.

04/09/2008 02:11 PM

Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

A new face recognition feature on Google's Picasa Web Albums will help users label their photos with the names of subjects. That and other changes to the photo-sharing site are joined by a new beta version of the accompanying Picasa 3.0 photo-editing software.

04/09/2008 02:07 PM

Google Chrome faster than Firefox, IE, Safari

Google introduced Chrome in part because it wants faster browsing and the richer Web applications that speed will unlock. So how does Chrome actually stack up?

03/09/2008 11:54 AM

Google's Chrome browser: Screenshots

The first images of Google's new Web browser, Chrome, appear to have leaked via a Flickr user who has published screenshots of the application.

02/09/2008 05:56 PM

Google plans 'Chrome' browser

Search giant Google has confirmed it will shortly unveil a new Web browser dubbed 'Chrome' and based on code from the Webkit project.

02/09/2008 07:29 AM

PC Tools to be poor man's Norton

Computer security giant Symantec this week said it would not integrate the software of recent acquisition PC Tools into its mainstream Norton suite, instead using the products as its low-cost option for countries such as India and China.

01/09/2008 12:21 PM

Symantec wants another chance

Computer security firm Symantec this week claimed 300 changes in the new versions of Norton Internet Security and Antivirus would address past performance problems.

01/09/2008 12:17 PM

Users report IE8 Beta 2 issues

One day after Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8, users have started to report issues with its installation and sites and services that are incompatible.

01/09/2008 11:59 AM

Adobe releases Photoshop and Premiere Elements 7

Adobe has announced the latest offering in its Photoshop line: Elements 7.

27/08/2008 02:03 PM

Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas

Microsoft site makes digital photos into panoramas

Microsoft's newest web tool, Photosynth, is designed to give viewers a much zippier way to stitch multiple images together into a panoramic scene.

26/08/2008 11:38 AM

Internet allowed in Sydney school exam

Internet allowed in Sydney school exam

A Sydney girls' school will let its student use iPods, the internet and mobile phones during exams as a new method of assessment.

20/08/2008 03:27 PM

How Seven blew the internet Olympics

If there ever was an opportunity for a broadcaster to showcase the potential of internet video, this was it, and Seven has blown it. Perhaps its executives should have rung their mates at NBC in the US and gotten some pointers on online coverage.

18/08/2008 12:19 PM

SMS updates gone for Aussie twitterers

Australian and European users of Twitter can no longer receive text message updates on their mobile phones, in a temporary move designed to keep the start-up's telecom bills down.

15/08/2008 04:58 PM

Olympics cybersecurity

At the Beijing Olympics, cybercriminals will be on the prowl for credit card information to steal, and security forces could well direct snooping efforts at unsuspecting travellers, warns the US government.

11/08/2008 10:31 AM

Twitter targeted by malware attacks

Microblogging service Twitter has started to be targeted by online criminals with malware.

06/08/2008 05:09 PM

Google defends Street View coverage

Search giant Google today defended the incomplete Australian coverage provided by its Street View add-on to its Google Maps and Earth tools, after launching the service early this morning.

05/08/2008 05:27 PM

New worm targets Facebook, MySpace

New worm targets Facebook, MySpace

A new worm is spreading via Facebook and MySpace, turning victims' computers into zombies on a botnet, according to security specialists Kaspersky Lab.

04/08/2008 12:35 PM

Sydney's Chatswood to get Apple store

Apple announced today that it would open a second official retail store in Sydney at 9am this Saturday (9 August), in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood.

04/08/2008 10:53 AM

PayPal to reimburse Aussie eBayers

The Australian division of eBay subsidiary PayPal has confirmed it will reimburse customers left out of pocket by the collapse of local eBay seller EBS International.

31/07/2008 10:23 AM

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  • iTunes 8 coming at next week's Apple event?

  • Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces

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  • Google Chrome faster than Firefox, IE, Safari

  • Google's Chrome browser: Screenshots

  • Google plans 'Chrome' browser

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