Internet applications & software stories
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Opera 10
07 Sep 2009 5:25 PM
What's new in Opera 10? Oh, just a major compression engine, better customisations, and dual identity for tabs.
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Facebook 3.0 for iPhone pours on the features
28 Aug 2009 11:42 AM
The third major edition of Facebook for iPhone pours on a heap of new features, and many of them focused on friends and photos. Get a glance of what's in store.
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Tweet for bread
27 Aug 2009 5:26 PM
In what's being claimed as an Aussie first, Modular Records is seeking submissions for a social media savvy intern via Twitter.
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Google links Apps to Groups for quicker sharing
19 Aug 2009 4:19 PM
Until now, Google Apps users wanting to share items had either to make them entirely public, or share them on a person-by-person basis.
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Mozilla switches on Firefox 3.5 update
18 Aug 2009 10:17 AM
A month and a half after Mozilla issued a significant update to its open-source web browser, the organisation has begun encouraging users of Firefox 3 to install version 3.5.
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Study: Twitter is 40% 'pointless babble'
17 Aug 2009 12:30 PM
Also notable in data firm Pear Analytics' breakdown of tweet species is that there's less spam than expected.
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Google building next-generation search engine
12 Aug 2009 4:22 PM
A major overhaul is under way behind the scenes at Google that it says will improve search results, but could also change the way sites are ranked in Google's index.
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uTorrent prepares for version 2.0
12 Aug 2009 2:02 PM
The first beta of the next generation of the uTorrent client is available and contains some useful upgrades that address how torrenting has changed in the past few years.
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Facebook gets Twitter-like search; buys FriendFeed
11 Aug 2009 1:57 PM
The giant social platform gets two key features: Real-time search and the Everyone filter. The company also announced plans to buy social media aggregator FriendFeed.
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Twitter, Facebook attack targeted one user
07 Aug 2009 11:58 AM
Accounts of pro-Georgian blogger were targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to an outage at Twitter and problems at Facebook, Blogger and LiveJournal, Facebook CSO says.
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Norton Internet Security 2010
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Opera 10
Featuring a compression engine to boost speeds for slow computers, a cool new treatment for tabs and a gaggle of other enhancements, the Opera 10 browser is nothing to sneeze at.
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