Internet applications & software stories

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

    Norton Internet Security 2010 builds on the immense progress it made in last year's version, maintaining a low system profile while strengthening its security framework. It's not perfect, but even Symantec's detractors should check it out.

  • 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.

  • LogMeIn Pro and LogMeIn Ignition for iPhone

    Remote access doesn't get much simpler than LogMeIn, but don't expect it to do absolutely everything for you.