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Google Knol to rival Wikipedia

Google is set to rival Wikipedia with it’s new “web 3.0″ like application known as “Knol”. See the official Google Blog below.

Direct from the Google Blog page:
The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything [...]

Malware doubled in 2007

Analysts with F-Secure and Websense predict an explosive growth of malware, bot attacks, QuickTime exploits, and viruses that target the iPhone..
At the start of 2007, computer security firm F-Secure had about 250,000 malware signatures in its database, [...]

Broadband network top of Labor’s list

While there are many things on Labor’s Policy agenda, implementing a national broadband network to deliver minimum speeds of 12 Mbps to 98 percent of Australians and improving broadband services for all Australians is top of its list.
Senator Stephen Conroy, the newly appointed Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and a member of [...]

Firefox 3 Beta 1 now available for download

Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.
Firefox 3 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes [...]

A first look at Firefox 3.0

Mozilla has officially released the first public alpha build of Firefox 3.0. Codenamed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 includes the new Gecko 1.9 rendering engine which leverages the open source Cairo rendering framework and features heavily refactored reflow algorithms that improve Firefox layout functionality and resolve some long-standing CSS bugs.
The reflow improvements in Gecko 1.9 (included [...]