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Google confirms its mobile Linux plans

Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android. Read more »

Safari 3.1 update fixes 13 security flaws

Apple has released Safari 3.1 for users on Mac OS X and Windows. Along with new features are 13 security updates, most of the fixes address cross-site scripting flaws. Read more »

Google dusts off Chrome bugs with developer update

Google released a developer-oriented update to its Chrome web browser on Wednesday that fixes some crashes and video playback issues. Read more »

Google reveals Android source code

A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »

Phone: Google Maps ditches satellites for triangles

Forget satellite -- Google's mobile phone mapping application can give a user's location without being GPS-enabled, but just a little less accurately. Read more »

Google success 'like a space shuttle take-off': Microsoft

Google "is perhaps the most notable example of how open and competitive the software industry has become," with "prospects ... so bright that the capital markets value the company at approximately US$231.5 billion, making it the fifth most valuable company in America". Or so says Microsoft. Read more »

Google: No Web browser plans

Google executives said they have no plans to build a browser and downplayed threats from Microsoft's new advertising system and plans to bundle search into Vista. Read more »

Google mulls RSS support

Google is considering renewing support for the popular RSS Web publishing format in some of its services, marking the latest twist in a burgeoning standards war over technology that could change how people read the news. Read more »

MIT to launch Kerberos Consortium

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is to launch the Kerberos Consortium to provide funding and input for development of the protocol. Read more »

Mobile Linux standards rocked by merger

The attempted standardisation of mobile Linux has been put on hold indefinitely, after the Linux Phone Standards Forum announced it was to merge with the Linux Mobile Foundation. Read more »

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Ballmer: From the frying pan to the firing line

In these eBay days, buyer's remorse is increasingly common. Less common is the remorse of the unbought — a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat. Read more »

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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- 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 »

Builder AU widgets for all

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Want the latest Builder AU tips, tutorials, news and blogs in widget form? Here's Builder AU's cross platform widget to insert on your Web site or blog, Netvibes account, Windows Vista, Apple's Dashboard, or your favourite social networking Web sites. 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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