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eBay backs down on PayPal mandate
eBay yesterday withdrew its mandate that customers exclusively use PayPal. The auction site's decision came just weeks before consumer watchdog the ACCC was due to pass judgement on its decision. |
Virtualisation: The key to a green datacentre?
Virtualisation is the key technology for creating less power-hungry datacentres, according to numerous speakers at the Energy Logic symposium in Sydney. |
Does Yahoo need its search to survive?
A fresh look at Yahoo's search results on Thursday by Hitwise Intelligence raises the question of whether Yahoo could survive just fine without its search engine. |
FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deals antitrust scrutiny
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. |
Linspire getting swallowed by Xandros
Linspire, the Linux company started by Michael Robertson, is ready to fully assume its place as a footnote in operating system history. |
Photos: Dubai's shape-shifting skyscraper
Architect David Fisher says that by the end of 2010, an 80-storey tower in Dubai will stand tall as the world's first-ever shape-shifting skyscraper. |
ATO gets tech head from OECD
The government has appointed David Butler as the new second commissioner of the Australian Tax Office to oversee its AU$700 million a year technology budget. |
CBS closes US$1.8bn CNET Networks acquisition
CBS announced Monday it completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET Networks, publisher of many Web sites including CNET News.com, setting the stage for expanding its CBS Interactive division into five categories. |
Govt to quiz 'sectoral behaviour' of digital economy
The federal government has plans to fill "big gaps" in its knowledge about IT usage in specific sectors of Australia's digital economy. |
Yahoo executive exodus causes reshuffle
Yahoo, under intense pressure, reorganised its upper management on Thursday in a plan designed to improve its products, underlying technology, and operational execution, the company said. |