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Though the Mozilla Web browser’s share is still small, it’s winning converts wary of security holes in Microsoft’s dominant product. When was the last time you heard about the browser wars? Well, they’re back. The reason: For the first time in more than seven years, Microsoft (MSFT ) is losing Web browser market share. And…

A number of ingenious uses for Google’s capacious free email service Gmail have surfaced since the service’s launch. Gmail was created by the web search company Google in April 2004 amid much excitement as every user is promised an unprecedented gigabyte of storage space for messages. Google encourages users to keep all their old messages…

ALCOHOL is the nation’s ‘drug of choice’, with 5million Australians regularly drinking too much, the Salvation Army has warned. Releasing new research showing 31 per cent of people older than 14 knocked back between six and 30 drinks in one session at least once a month, Major Mark Campbell yesterday said alcohol was ‘out of…

AUSTRALIA is being flooded with pirate DVDs – and the money is helping fund global terrorism. The number of pirate discs recovered by police and customs during the first quarter of this year has already matched the total for last year. And Interpol is warning that counterfeit discs have overtaken drugs as the biggest source…

The Federal Opposition says it will spend $21 million on anti-smoking campaigns if it wins next month’s federal election. Opposition health spokeswoman Julia Gillard says the money will be spent over four years on television advertisements that encourage people to quit smoking. Ms Gillard says Labor wants to drive smoking rates down to 15 per…

The new iMac G5. Yum. you did take a look at it already didn’t you? 

I don’t watch tv. it surprises me that people do watch as much as they do. 

A security flaw in the way many Microsoft applications process JPEG images could allow an attacker to gain control over a computer running the software, Microsoft warned this week. Any program that processes JPEG images could be vulnerable, Microsoft says in Security Bulletin MS04-028. To take advantage of the flaw, an attacker would have to…

NEC Corp is aiming to make more than 10 per cent of the plastic it uses in PCs biodegradable by 2010. The company will release notebook personal computers that use biodegradable plastic this month.

Does John Howard have election dysfunction? He just can’t seem to get it up past 2%! Does he really think his tiny Clean Energy Target is going to satisfy anyone? At the upcoming Federal election, use your vote to tell John Howard that size really does matter. Climate change is already hurting Australia through the…