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Where did Microsoft's DRM vision go?

Early this decade, Microsoft weathered unrelenting criticism over a controversial set of technologies known as Palladium, which the company envisioned as creating a kind of secure vault to store passwords or medical records. Read more »

Photos: Synchrotron – Australia's particle accelerator

How many Australian scientists does it take to make the countries' biggest light bulb? Our photo gallery takes you inside the Synchrotron, Australia's only particle accelerator that creates high-intensity light for scientific imaging. Read more »

IBM alphaWorks: From software theory to fact

Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles. Read more »

Thin client phone becomes 'Pocket Supercomputer'

Accenture researchers have been showing off a thin client system, which can recognise objects such as books, pictures and foodstuffs videoed on a mobile phone -- delivering relevant information straight to into your hand. Read more »

Waiting for the OpenSocial hammer to drop

Veteran developer Marc Canter warns industry politics could stymie push to give social network users more control over data. Read more »

Befriend APML -- the new markup for social profiles

What began as a discussion two years ago during a power blackout has led to Attention Profiling Mark-up Language (APML), which is an attempt to create a standardised and open format for consumers to store information about their interests and preferences. Read more »

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Software development to become an automated commodity

Into the future, code generation will become more and more entrenched as software development is further automated. Read more »

Five new developments in storage infrastructure solutions

First there was Ethernet. Then, there was IP over Ethernet. Next came the mixed use of Ethernet, IP, and the SCSI command set to simplify storage and to bring down the cost and complexity of storage. Read more »

Interview: The future of mobile development

In the first instalment of our Web Directions South content, we ask mobile business experts Rob Manson and Alex Young where they think the Australian mobile development market is going in the near future. Read more »

80% of software is no brain work: Ivar Jacobson

Efficiency, Code Reuse and Artificial Intelligence -- we sat down with one of the inventors of UML and the RUP to talk about how the software industry has to change in the next five years. Read more »

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  • Lana Kovacevic What's new in GWT 1.5?

    I recently wrote an introduction to the Google Web Toolkit based on Lars Rasmussen's session at the Google Developer Day 2008 in Sydney. Following the introductory session Lars gave us a deeper insight into GWT, particularly what's new in version 1.5. Read more »

    -- posted by Lana Kovacevic

  • Lana Kovacevic The Portal of the Future

    At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »

    -- posted by Lana Kovacevic

  • Staff Google's new foray into image search

    Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis. In addition images can be matched with display ads and utilise geotagging information for various applications. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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