16th May 2010 Archive
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Microsoft: 'Using IE6 is like drinking 9-year-old milk'
Our cheesy chunky old product is very unhealthy. Bwulp
Microsoft hopes the fear and shame associated with online fraud will elbow browser holdouts off Internet Explorer 6 and onto IE 8. The company's Down Under operation has equated the risk of using IE6 to drinking a carton of rancid - and probably solid - nine-year-old milk. IE6 was released in 2001. Microsoft Australia wants …
Applications 16 May 04:59
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Non-Flash video surges onto the web
Maniacal chuckling at One Infinite Loop
Steve Jobs is one-quarter of the way to victory in his increasingly heated take-no-prisoners assault on Adobe Flash. According to a survey conducted by video aggregator MeFeedia, 26 per cent of all web video is now available for playback with the HTML5 <video> tag and the H.264 codec. That means that 26 per cent of web video …
Music and Media 16 May 07:02
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SAP buys Sybase - but why?
Comment $5.8bn question
German database maker SAP went on a shopping spree last week to buy in rather than build up a mobile platform maker to bolt onto its already bloated business. But why did it drop close to $6bn on Sybase? It was arguably the biggest pure tech news story of the past week, in which German database giant SAP shook money out of its …
Applications 16 May 08:02
