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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has launched a new on-demand Internet broadcasting service.

A project launched Wednesday aims to create what is in essence a medical Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia focused on explaining conditions, drugs, procedures, medial facilities and other medical topics written by physicians and PhDs.

Google has launched Knol, its user-generated online encyclopedia, which it announced in December but had kept under wraps in private testing.

Security vulnerabilities in the iPhone's e-mail application and Safari Web browser can be used by phishers to dupe users into visiting malicious sites or by spammers to flood the phone's inbox with junk mail, a researcher warned Wednesday.

Yahoo has added a button on its main Web site linking to a page that lobbies shareholders to vote against Carl Icahn's plans for the company, stepping up its rhetoric in the days leading up to its annual meeting.

One of the fundamental data structures in the networking subsystem is the transmit queue associated with each device. The core networking code will call a driver's hard_start_xmit() function to let the driver know that a packet is ready for transmission; it is then the driver's job to feed that packet into the hardware's transmit queue.

Web-based office suites are coming into their own at last. For quite a while, Web-based suites -- which offered word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and other tools associated with desktop office suites -- were extolled not because they did these things well, but because they could do them at all. But the three major competitors, Google Docs, ThinkFree, and Zoho, have all made major improvements in recent months. They're becoming both broader, with more applications, and deeper, with more features and functionality in existing apps.

Microsoft's Windows beat operating system rivals Mac OS X and Ubuntu in a three-month test of update server uptime, a Swedish uptime monitoring company said.

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The author of several security books is slated to demonstrate how he could take advantage of flaws in Intel's chips to launch a remote attack against a computer - regardless of what software platform it's running.

The eye of tech-artist Benjamin Males' custom-made surveillance camera is engineered for a black and white world.