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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 »

Numbers game: Macs safe but not so secure

The scalp of Mac OS X has been waved trophy-like after being hacked in controlled environments, yet security researchers are hard pressed remembering the last time a Mac was compromised in the wild. 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 »

Mozilla's Google subsidy to last three more years

Mozilla and Google have extended a search deal through 2011, providing some financial security to the backer of the open source Firefox Web browser. Read more »

A Firefox for music?

If digital-music veteran Rob Lord wanted to court controversy with his new open-source start-up, he probably couldn't have done much better than to compare Apple Computer's iTunes software to Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser. Read more »

Piggyback developers in a bind over IE

Internet Explorer's state of suspended animation has never much bothered Web entrepreneur Adam Stiles, but now he's worried. Read more »

Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy

After eight months of rapid growth, Firefox approaches its 1.0 release with new challenges in converting IE users. 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 »

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The spider's Web of CSS

Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »

Use metrics to drop browser support

Browser version support is a difficult issue but a few metrics and testing tools can provide the hard data you need to choose which Web browsers your Internet site will support. Read more »

Sun refuses to relinquish control over Java

While Sun Microsystems struggles to maintain control over Java, other companies say they should be allowed to develop their own platforms without interference from Sun. Here are some of the hot issues. 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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