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Developers want Ballmer to show money

Australian developers have asked Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer what the company will do to address a Microsoft coding landscape that hasn't offered financial rewards like those available to iPhone and Facebook developers. Read more »

Mozilla warns on Adobe, Microsoft hidden Web agenda

Companies building Web sites should beware of proprietary rich-media technologies like Adobe's Flash and Microsoft's Silverlight, the founder of Mozilla Europe has warned. Read more »

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Adobe opens up tech warchest in fight with Microsoft

Adobe Systems detailed a number of technology projects and products at its Max 2007 developer conference on Monday and gave glimpse of how it intends to make more money from online services. Read more »

Adobe plots its path on the Web

Best known for apps like Photoshop, Adobe is relying on Kevin Lynch to break out of the shrink-wrapped software business. Read more »

Adobe sees its future on the Web

Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards. Read more »

Flash celebrates 10 years

Can '90s-era technology for cute Web animations lead a new generation of cutting-edge Web applications? Read more »

Ballmer tells Oz: get with the broadband

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday tip-toed around Australia's broadband debate but said that if the country was to engage in cloud computing business that telcos and the government needed to 'get on with' delivering high speed broadband — at a fair price. Read more »

Counting down to the iPhone SDK

While Australia waits for the iPhone, time is quickly closing in on the beginning of a new chapter in the history of the iPhone, one that could signal just how far Apple can take its maiden voyage into the smartphone world. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Safari, Firefox charge towards a more colourful Web

Apple's Safari browser is able to display richer, more deeper colours than either Internet Explorer or Opera -- but Firefox is expected to catch up in the next month. Read more »

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Taking developers into the interface

In the second half of our interview with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, we discuss JavaFX phones, Sun's view of Google and Adobe, Swing's appearance and just how much of a bubble the industry is in. Read more »

The Mobile Future

The next battle for the hearts and minds of internet developers will be fought on the mobile phone. Read more »

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Spry Interrogation

Greg Rewis, Senior Evangelist for Web Tools at Adobe, discusses their designer centric Ajax framework Spry. Read more »

Did Ballmer hint at a Windows AppStore?

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday appeared to hint at the possibility of a Windows application marketplace that would be similar to the Apple iPhone AppStore. But the idea is not without its share of problems. Read more »

Mobile Case Study: Podmo

Che Metcalfe got so fed up with the limitations of mobile phones and network operators for distributing content that he built a network platform of his own Read more »

Create Flash effects fast--without Flash

Don't have the time or money to learn Flash MX? Here are some alternatives that can help you start creating Flash animation without the expense and hassle of MX. Read more »

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You've got patched flaws!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Patents and Symantec were made to look very silly this week. Microsoft said that open source was a bigger threat than Google and no prizes for guessing which month the final version of Firefox 3 will appear in. Read more »

Does ApolloCamp Equal Apollo Release?

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Adobe will be hosting ApolloCamp this Friday night San Francisco time and the smart money is that a public alpha of Apollo may be announced sometime around that date. Read more »

Aussie software pros code for the Fred Hollows Foundation

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Software professionals in Australia have coded together a blitz Web-based charity campaign to raise money for the Fred Hollows Foundation -- donations are now open. Read more »

Flash vs. Silverlight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we take a look at the latest versions of Flash and Silverlight, Windows 7 and what's new in the world of open source. Read more »

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