News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Adobe has agreed to buy Web analytics company Omniture for $US1.8 billion ($A2.3b) in cash, the companies said this week.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Sep 17, 2009
Microsoft has won an appeal to overturn a $US358 million ($A450m) award it had been ordered to pay to Alcatel-Lucent in the latest ruling on an ongoing patent-infringement dispute that began in 2003.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Sep 15, 2009
Microsoft this week refuted a post by a prominent blogger that said the company designed the first iteration of Bing specifically to help people find items to purchase online.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Sep 2, 2009
Microsoft and Nokia are set to unveil an alliance later today that will likely reveal a plan to deliver Microsoft’s Office applications on Nokia handsets.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Aug 12, 2009
Facebook on Monday said it has agreed to purchase FriendFeed, a social-networking site that lets people share information and media files on the Web in real time.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Aug 12, 2009
Popular social-networking site Facebook was hit with a DoS (denial-of-service) attack Thursday, but the attack did not appear to be as severe as one that crippled Twitter the same day.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Aug 10, 2009
The Twitter micro-blogging and social networking service has been hit with a denial of service attack Thursday morning that rendered the site unavailable for users for a couple of hours.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Aug 7, 2009
Microsoft and Yahoo struck a long-anticipated search deal Wednesday under which Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site, and Yahoo will sell premium search advertising services for both companies.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Jul 30, 2009
Microsoft has removed an online ad for Internet Explorer 8, which showed a woman projectile vomiting, from parts of the Web.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Jul 4, 2009
A Microsoft enthusiast group is calling for the boycott of Opera Software’s products due to the browser maker’s part in the antitrust campaign against Microsoft in Europe.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Jun 16, 2009
Adobe Systems this week is moving its Acrobat.com Web-based productivity and collaboration services out of beta and offer for-fee subscriptions to provide what the company hopes will be a new way for business users to collaborate on document creation.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Jun 16, 2009
Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to build their own customised browsers based on the next version of Firefox, which will be out in a few weeks.
Elizabeth Montalbano | Jun 10, 2009
This morning Apple released a new version of its iPhone SDK for developers. iPhone SDK beta 2 includes Interface Builder, a component of Apple’s development tools that lets developers create the interface for their applications. That seems to be the only major change in the latest build, according to the SDK’s read me, which continues to list some known issues. Apple says “this second beta is known to be incompatible with installation folders other than the default /Developer.” Given the importance of UI on the Mac, Interface Builder is a pretty critical tool in the development process, and some developers had chosen to hold off on their efforts until the SDK was revised. Apple unveiled the iPhone SDK at a special event earlier this month, allowing developers to begin building applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. Several high-profile companies have already jumped onboard, demoing their applications at the event. Highlighting the demos was AOL with a native AIM client; other applications from Electronic Arts, Salesforce.com, and Apple were also shown.
