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Google's Android gets app market

Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system. Read more »

Google feels the Force with Salesforce deal

Today Salesforce.com announced a "global strategic alliance" (also known as a partnership) with Google, introducing a new integration point, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. Read more »

Google takes spreadsheets, presentations offline

Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix. Read more »

Microsoft safe from Google in apps: Gartner

Microsoft shouldn't be worried about Google's move into the enterprise applications space — but Microsoft is shaping up to be more of a challenger to Google's online ads business, according to Gartner. Read more »

Google Web storage coming soon?

Google's much-rumored online storage service should be available in a few months, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that cites unnamed sources. Read more »

Google takes Web apps offline

Google today announced the availability of a new open-source browser plug-in, Google Gears, that promises developers the ability to create applications that work within a browser -- even without Internet connectivity. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Google Android's new battleground: Developers

Google executives have a lot of work ahead of them as they court application developers skeptical of the search king's new open software platform for mobile devices. Read more »

'Spammy' social network apps on the way out: Google

Developers of social networking sites are considering sharing blacklists of annoying and 'spammy' applications with each other in an effort to prevent users from switching off Web 2.0 technology. 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 »

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Using Google as an application platform

Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »

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 »

Make the most of HTTP headers

By understanding how to take advantage of the information in HTTP headers, you can build more effective Web applications. Here's what you need to know. Read more »

It's time to start Web services planning

Will 2003 be the "Year of the Web services" and should savvy tech leaders start constructing their Web services road map today? Read more »

Firefox 3.5rc2: Why I am not so impressed

I decided it was time to see what the developers of Firefox had been doing with my favourite open-source browser. The verdict so far? "Meh". Read more »

Java on Google App Engine? Not yet

Reports out of a Google developer conference in India indicated that Google was primed to add support for Java programs running on its presently Python-only Google App Engine. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit

At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »

Google's Android not what you think

If you were looking for an iPhone-killing handset from Google's new mobile strategy, you were definitely hoping for the wrong thing. Google is warmly neutral towards Apple and really has a certain software giant in their sights instead. Read more »

Why Chrome will win and why it will lose

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of Chrome. We spoke to industry experts and Google's new rivals to find out why Chrome matters and whether the browser reality can deliver on the hype. Read more »

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Performance and large scalable applications

Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, describes the factor that developers should think about when creating large applications that have good scalable performance. Read more »

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Behind the Apple-Google API dustup

Google acknowledged breaking the official rules of Apple's iPhone software development kit when it created the latest version of the Google Mobile application for the iPhone. What are the implications for developers and for users? Join Charles Cooper and Tom Krazit on the CNET News Daily Debrief. Read more »

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Demo of Google apps on Salesforce

Here's how it looks when Google applications Gmail, Docs, Talk, and Calendar operate on the Salesforce platform. The two companies announced a joint cloud computing venture at a press event in San Francisco on Monday, April 14, 2008. Read more »

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Palm announces WebOS platform, Mojo messaging service

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm Senior Vice President of Applications and Services Michael Abbott announced an early access program of the company's new developing platform, WebOS. The new platform will run apps natively on the device and enables greater integration with cloud applications like Google and Facebook. Abbott stressed that the company is looking for developer feedback and that the platform is evolving. Read more »

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Google Developer Day scheduled in 2008

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has announced that it will host a free new event for developers in 2008 in Sydney. Read more »

Wolfram Alpha makes an entrance

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we look at the launch of Wolfram Alpha, a new file-synchronisation service for Ubuntu and more. Read more »

How Google's App Engine stacks up with Amazon's EC2

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- We compare Amazon's approach to providing infrastructure services to Google's. Read more »

Adobe develops Strobe

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Adobe unveiled an open framework, called Strobe, while Mozilla released version 1.0 of it's Prism, and Google added new features to its search engine. More in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Google faces down Apple

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- What's the point in following Apple's rules on the iPhone SDK if other developers will just flaunt them? We check the answer out and cover the other issues from the week: OLPC, IE, Ballmer and the Internet in space. Read more »

Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google already has customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read more »

3D coming to your browser

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Is 3D web finally becoming a reality? Are we a step closer to Berners-Lee vision of a Semantic Web? We answer these questions and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network. Read more »

Google's Secret Sauce

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- A new Googler has offered a rare glimpse into the process by which the search giant turns ideas into products. Read more »

Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project. Read more »

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LCA Open Day

Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »

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