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IBM regains supercomputer bragging rights

IBM has regained dominance on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers and has also landed two unusual prototypes in the top 10. Read more »

Step aside, Chrome, for Squirrelfish Extreme

Just about every browser out there now is trying to grab the crown for fastest performance for running JavaScript, the programming language that powers many increasingly sophisticated Web-based applications. Read more »

The brains behind Apple's Rosetta: Transitive

A Silicon Valley start-up called Transitive is supplying Apple Computer with a crucial bridge to enable the move to Intel-based computers, but skeptics worry about performance problems that have plagued similar products. Read more »

Apple to slow pace of Mac OS X tweaks

Apple Computer plans to continue rapidly bringing out new versions of Mac OS X, but it won't continue at quite the pace it's maintained in recent years. Read more »

Apple confirms switch to Intel chips

After years of trying to get people to switch to Macs from Intel-based computers, Apple Computer itself has switched. Read more »

McNealy keeps busy at Sun

Despite leaving the chief executive role at Sun Microsystems last year, Scott McNealy is staying active with the company as chairman, and remains as outspoken as ever. Read more »

US$100m Apple iFund: Widgets need not apply

Venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) placed a US$100 million bet on Apple's iPhone on Thursday by creating the iFund. KPCB partner Matt Murphy talks about the iFund and the type of big ideas the fund is seeking. Read more »

Open-source divorce for Apple's Safari?

Two years after it selected open-source rendering engine KHTML as the basis of its Safari Web browser, Apple has proposed resolving compatibility conflicts by scrapping that code base in favour of its own. 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 »

Adobe confirms Flash for iPhone

Adobe has reportedly confirmed that its Flash technology is coming to Apple's iPhone. Read more »

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Why Apple's iPhone is like a 1981 IBM PC

Is the iPhone just a clunky 1981 IBM PC in a sexy black case? Rupert Goodwins asks some serious questions about its enduring appeal. Read more »

CVSDude: Queensland one day, global the next

Beginning with hardware bought on eBay, Brisbane-based CVSDude now manages source code for Apple, Intel and the BBC. 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 »

10 Linux desktops you shouldn't overlook

Even if you're happy with the Linux desktop you currently use, you might want to check out some alternatives to see what you could be missing. This article highlights 10 of the best desktops and explains what makes them stand out. 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 »

Cisco administration 101: Configure GRE tunnels

Originally developed by Cisco, generic routing encapsulation (GRE) is now a standard. We'll show you how you can use GRE tunnels to form a secure VPN. Read more »

Review: Java Development from Linux to Mac

Local tech writer, Ben Stringer reviews the move from a Linux development environment for Java to one with an Apple PowerMac G5. Read more »

10 things you should know about every Linux installation

Before installing Linux you must realise that there may be a few "new ways of doing things" to learn. Here are 10 tips to get you started. Read more »

Wireless Visionary: Wi-Fi speeds into the future

Although Wi-Fi has turned into one of the hottest young technologies, Vic Hayes says the real excitement will start after the computer industry hurdles the 100mbps speed barrier. Read more »

Ten tips for PHP scripts

If you've taken a gander at PHP or read through an introductory tutorial, these tips will expand your knowledge a bit further, introducing you to some common uses as well as advanced features of PHP. Read more »

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Apple shipping the Mark Webber of hard drives

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The hard drives within Apple computers seem to pull mechnical failure and random incidents into play whenever you think things are fine -- just like our man in F1: M. Webber. Read more »

Google's Android parts ways with Java industry group

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google's Android software gives Sun Microsystems' Java technology a starring role -- but not the version of Java the rest of the mobile phone industry has been developing since the 1990s. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    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 »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite 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 »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending 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 »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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