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  • Microsoft Threatens Yahoo Board with Proxy Fight

    Just when it seemed like things had gone quiet on the Yahoo acquisition front, Steve Ballmer, CEO at Microsoft has threatened a proxy fight should Yahoo continue to resist the negotiating table.

  • IBM Deploys Private ‘Second Life’ Virtual World

    IBM has announced a partnership with Linden Lab, creators of the virtual world Second Life to host a private section of the virtual world on big blue’s own servers and to explore future enterprise solutions.

  • One Fifth of all Spam Hails from Storm

    MessageLabs has released their latest Intelligence Report which puts the blame for one fifth of the world’s spam emails squarely at the feet of the Storm Botnet.

  • HP Introduce Forms and Document Automation

    Hewlett Packard (HP) has announced a forms and document automation solution which looks to enable Government and educational institutions to make the move away from pre-printed forms.

  • Microsoft OOXML Document Format Wins Approval

    The final skirmish has come to a surprisingly bloodless conclusion in the document format battle that Microsoft has been fighting since 2005, with the announcement that Office Open XML has won the ISO vote.

  • Government Dumps Rural Broadband Scheme

    The Federal Government has scrapped the $958 Million contract with OPEL, the joint Optus-Elders venture that had been charged with setting up a rural WiMax broadband network.

  • The Third Generation of Search

    IDM kicked off 2007 with a look at Wikia’s new social search engine project, at the time informally dubbed Wikiasari, which was taking its first steps into a brave new world of search. Now, one year later an Alpha version of Wikia Search h...