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Assuming that Saturday's public walkaway by Microsoft doesn't prove just to be a high-risk negotiation tactic against Yahoo -- after all, the companies are rumored to have been talking about some sort of merger or acquisition for almost three years -- then what we have is a software vendor suddenly awash in tens of billions of unspent dollars that it can now lavish on other Internet firms.

For the first time, Australians in 2007 were spending more time online than they were spending watching TV (an average of 13.7 hours per week compared with 13.3 hours of TV) according to Nielsen Online's 2007 Australian Internet and Technology Report.

Baffled by Microsoft's push to acquire Yahoo? These frequently asked questions provide the lowdown on the contest for the Internet company.

Brisbane based Clickfind.com.au has launched a competitive attack on the established Yellow Pages Online and Microsoft's Mylocal business models offering advertising-free directory listings that help secure top Google rankings for Australian business owners.

Few reports have surfaced of security breaches in virtual-server environments, but the potential looms large.

End-user adoption is often cited as a key stumbling block in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) implementations. But Microsoft is asserting that improvements in its Dynamics line of software will have users swooning with passion, not seething with frustration.

Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application (RIA) platform has yet to gain traction among companies or programmers, according to two indirect measures of popularity.

China Central Television (CCTV) will allow two China-based Web sites to offer streaming broadcasts of Olympic events, the companies announced Wednesday.

In a move that many described as signaling the official death of the page view, Nielsen/NetRatings last July announced that it would no longer use page views as the primary metric for comparing Web sites. At the time, the Internet benchmarking firm cited that the growing popularity of Asynchronous Java and XML, or AJAX - which can refresh content without completely reloading a Web page - as the main reason for the change to measuring time spent on a site.

The most popular hours for watching network TV video online falls between noon and 2pm, and women are nearly twice as likely as men to be watching the video streams, according to a new type of study released by Nielsen Online.

In 2006, Massachusetts' then CIO, Peter Quinn, described the open source community as the "sandal and ponytail set," and claimed that image and appearance made open source a harder sell for use in his state government. While those are some pretty powerful words, it begs the question: is there such a thing as a "Linux person?"