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Our iPhone 2.0 wishlist

The first generation iPhone was a work in progress, with numerous common functions noticeably absent. So check out our wishlist for the iPhone 2.0.

IPTV off the radar in Oz

Although Internet video seems to be going mainstream in the US, the idea of tuning in to IPTV content without needing to connect to a next gen console or home theatre PC is not catching on with Australian vendors, let alone consumers.

Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client finally gets calendar

Mozilla Foundation has finally integrated the Lightning calendar to its latest incarnation of open-source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3.0. Users can also expect improved search.

Samsung's BlackJack cousins

AT&T may have given the US the Samsung BlackJack, but today at CES Samsung showed two similar devices, the Samsung SGH-i620 and the Samsung SGH-i780.

Apple's Tiger and Leopard get patched up

31 new security fixes are available for Mac OS X.

Please don't steal this Web content

Movement is afoot to stifle "scraper sites," which scrape content off blogs and repost it on other sites to profit from ad impressions.

Microsoft Popfly service does mashups

Microsoft on Friday introduced a Web mashup builder for the rest of us.

A fresher, faster Hotmail

Some 280 million Hotmail users are getting a brand-new in-box. If you're already using Hotmail, a green button will invite you to try the new service when you log in, while the beta tag disappears for testers

Joost goes one beta better

Commercial launch of on-demand Web program to feature Anderson Cooper, "Aqua Teen Hunger Force," ads, new partnerships.

Microsoft sheds light on Flash rival

Looking to dethrone Adobe's Web video tool, Redmond to unveil a browser plug-in called Silverlight.

Adobe to take Flash videos to desktop

Adobe Media Player, set for release later this year, can play back downloaded video files, rather than browser-based video streams.

Yahoo: Pipe in data, then mash it up

Beta Web service Yahoo Pipes is designed to make it easier to manipulate data feeds from Web sites in creating applications.

With Vista, seeing is believing, says Gates

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates speaks with CNET News.com's Ina Fried in New York about the long-awaited launch of his company's new operating system, Windows Vista.

CES 2007: At CES, Gates tells what a geek wants

Bill Gates says his house is already wired to the hilt, with touch screens and high-definition displays. But, in the second installment of a two-part interview with CNET News.com, the Microsoft chairman admits he's ready to revamp his system to add "some vision and speech-type things."

CES 2007: Bravia Internet Video Link brings online video to Sony TVs

Sony today unveiled the Bravia Internet Video Link, a small accessory designed to deliver online video to compatible Bravia flat-screen HDTVs.

Google's ambitions going mobile

Deep Nishar, Google's director of product management, sees mobility as the new frontier of the Internet.

Minor issues surface after IE 7 launch

Reports of a security bug are flawed, Microsoft says. However, there are some compatibility woes and Microsoft servers are buckling under high IE 7 demand.

Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky number for IE

The software maker launches its first major update to the browser in years, offering tabbed browsing and security additions.

Yahoo beats Microsoft to punch with IE update

Yahoo posts an optimized version of Internet Explorer 7 before Microsoft's own final release of the browser.

Is Firefox still gaining on IE?

One recent set of statistics shows Firefox increased its market share against Internet Explorer, while other figures suggest Microsoft is fighting back.

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