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Microsoft offers ten reasons to shun Google

Microsoft has launched an attack on Google in which it seeks to dissuade businesses from downloading Google Apps. 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 »

Google Apps attack: FUD and loathing in Redmond?

Software-as-a-service pundits and analysts have hit back hard at Microsoft's criticisms of Google Apps Premier Edition as backwards looking and fear mongering. 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 »

It's Adobe's game to lose, CEO says

Bruce Chizen discusses open source, the importance of video and increasing competition from the likes of Google. Read more »

Service links Gmail and Outlook, bypassing Exchange

If you like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client software but hate the expense of licensing and running Exchange Server, there is another alternative: a subscription service that effectively lets people dump Exchange in favour of Google's cloud-computing infrastructure. Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

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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 »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. 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 »

Setting up a simple Web service using Java

Web services form the basis for machine interoperability over a network. This guide aims to provide an insight into quickly setting up and deploying a simple Web service using Java, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat and Axis2. Read more »

Review: NetBeans 5.0

The new version of the open source Java IDE adds new UI layout capabilities, and vastly improves its Web Services handling. We take a look at the changes. Read more »

Make the most of AJAX

AJAX has changed the way Web apps are developed and used. It allows for interactive Web pages and is on the cutting edge of current web trends. Read more »

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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 »

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 »

Where is Web 2.0 going, and from where?

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- The Web 2.0 Innovation Map is a mashup based on Google Maps which shows a slice of current Web 2.0 developments coming down the path. Read more »

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