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Microsoft offers development tools for Mac, Web
Even as its steers developers toward the forthcoming edition of Windows, Microsoft is building tools to write applications for the Mac OS and the Web. Read more »
Apple drops NDA for iPhone developers
Apple has decided to end the nondisclosure agreement attached to software that has already been released for the iPhone Read more »
Coders win from Android Market
Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system. Read more »
Microsoft ready for Silverlight's second act
Microsoft on Monday announced that it is ready with a final version of Silverlight 2. Read more »
Apple answers call for iPhone applications
Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again. Read more »
Apple's WWDC: New iPhone, new OS X, new .Mac?
Expect to hear new details about the future of Apple's Mac OS X and Web business next week at the Worldwide Developers Conference — and we think there might be a new iPhone, too. Read more »
Apple's Jobs more powerful than Gates
Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs has topped a list of the 25 most powerful business people in the world. Read more »
Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone 3G
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the second generation iPhone at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference and details some of the improvements over the original iPhone. 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 »
Opera takes a lead from Yahoo and Apple
Web applications feature in the latest beta of Opera's eponymous browser. Read more »
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Using AppleScript to build Mac OS X applications
You can easily build applications that use the Aqua UI and interact with other applications on your Mac. We'll show you how. Read more »
How the Mac was born, and other tales
Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. Read more »
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
Panther adds new and useful features, but at the expense of some old standbys. Current Jaguar users need not apply. Read more »
TopCoder: More than competition
Ever wanted to challenge the developer in the next cube to a duel? TopCoder lets you do just that. And it might just land you a new job too. Read more »
Apples vs apples: Chrome takes on beta browsers
The internet has exploded in a single, joyous, mass-hallucination called Chrome. Apparently it's the fastest browser ever and will solve a myriad of problems from slowness within Google Spreadsheet to possibly creating an acceptable carbon trading scheme. Read more »
Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit
Edwin Aoki, technology fellow at AOL, speaks about the impact web applications have had in the enterprise and what trends are emerging. Read more »
Book Review - The Art of Java Web Development
Looking for a book to take your Java Web skills further? President of the Australian Java User's Group, David Bullock, reviews "The Art of Java Web Development" written by Neal Ford. Read more »
Case Study: AppleBox takes rentals into Web 2.0
Simon Gilligan's attempt to breathe new life into the neighbourhood video rental store has become an unlikely showcase for Web 2.0 technologies. Read more »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
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Creating Web apps at iPhone Developer Camp
-- "Apple is not ready to have a developer community yet ... you have to be on the Apple happy list to be a developer," Christopher Allen said. "There has always been this tension with Apple and the developers' community." Read more »
Adobe lead charge for a Java SWT port to Apple's Cocoa
-- Reports out of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference this week indicate a port of Java SWT(Standard Widget Toolkit) to Mac OS X Cocoa is being readied. Read more »
Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?
-- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »
Newbie guide to Google's Android
-- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »
What's a Beta these days?
-- Betas are now so widespread that the term is becoming meaningless. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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ZDNet.com.au chases Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer around Sydney during his recent visit Down Under.

