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MPAA blames Linux Australia notice on 'human error'
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has blamed Linux Australia's wrongful receipt of a copyright infringement notice on a worker's "bad day". Read more »
Google Summer of Code coming to Australia
Google plans to expand its Summer of Code program for university students into the southern hemisphere this year, making it possible for Australian undergraduates to participate during their summer break. Read more »
Optus 3G iPhone pricing announced
Optus will sell Apple's 8GB 3G iPhone for the outright price of AU$729 and AU$849 for the 16GB model, when purchased with Optus prepaid SIM cards. Read more »
Brisbane game developer shuts shop
Australian developer of Fury goes into administration; all staff laid off. Read more »
Dell and HP still the life of the XP party
Facing a 30 June deadline to stop selling PCs with Windows XP, the world's largest computer makers are getting creative, with Dell and HP's Australian offices staying cagey about their intentions. Read more »
SCO finalising plans for Aust Linux onslaught
Australia's corporate community will get their first real taste of the SCO Group's campaign for compensation for alleged intellectual property breaches involving Linux before the end of the first quarter. Read more »
AU developers to get MS betas next year
Microsoft is to release to Australian developers next year betas of its new operating system, Longhorn, its next version of SQL Server, Yukon and Whidbey, the next version of Visual Studio. Read more »
Aust government signs agreement to see Windows code
The Australian government is to gain access to the source code underlying Microsoft's Windows operating system after signing an agreement with the software heavyweight in Canberra yesterday. Read more »
J D Edwards' Ian Hodge: Straight to the source
What sets J D Edwards apart from the likes of Siebel and PeopleSoft? We speak with Ian Hodge, managing director Australia/New Zealand, about the future of business software and services. Read more »
VMware Australia plays down bug
VMware's Australia and New Zealand division today said the local impact was small from a botched software patch that had left some customers unable to start their virtualised environments. Read more »
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VS.NET Debugging Made Easy, Part 2
In the second part of this series on debugging in Visual Studio, Nick Wienholt explores some more advanced features to help debug your .NET code. Read more »
The impact of the software evolution
Software development seems to have progressed from a creative art-form to just another business tool. Nathan Brumby traces this change in perception, and looks to what the future will bring for developers. Read more »
Can Borcon 2002 survive the event industry shake-up?
The IT industry conference circuit has been through tough times recently. Once-powerful trade shows have merged, become dramatically smaller and, in many cases, have disappeared altogether. It is in this uncertain climate that Borland Australia is set to roll the dice, playing host to the company's fifth annual conference, dubbed Borcon 2002, which is being staged in Sydney from July 27-30. Read more »
Make the most of mapping down under
Map-based mashups are appearing everywhere. Whether you're planning a bike commute or looking for hotels, Andrew Muller shows how Aussies can incorporate maps into applications. Read more »
Windows Vista SP1 beta lacks 'wow'
If you've been waiting for Windows Vista SP1 to come out before you make the leap to the new operating system, don't, says Microsoft. Read more »
Designing software for distant shores, Part 1
In the first part of a two part series, Angus Kidman examines the technical challenges of building applications for the international market. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Prashant Sridharan
Prashant Sridharan is the group product manager for Visual Studio Team System at Microsoft. With the release of the tools later this year Builder AU caught up with Shridharan to talk about the long-awaited release. Read more »
Developer skills outlook 2007: What training do you need?
Angus Kidman examines whether you need a university degree to find a job as a developer and which, if any, certifications you'll need to remain a desirable candidate. Read more »
Microformats and Mapping
We begin by looking at what a microformat is and how they are useful, then progress to introducing the Google Maps API and finally putting it all together to produce the user group map Read more »
A patently bad idea?
So you've developed software that is going to change the world only to discover another company holds the patent for your idea. Are patents protecting or destroying the software industry? Read more »
Blog (18)
Silicon Beach Australia
-- A group of Australian Web technology thinkers and entrepreneurs have started a new Google Group to build the Down Under version of California's famous high-tech development locality. They call it: Silicon Beach Australia. Read more »
Google Maps discovers Australia
-- Aussies have missed out on much of the mash-up madness with Google being slow to deliver Australian maps to its popular mapping service. However, local developers will have to wait no longer, GoogleGoogle have launched Google Maps with Australian maps.
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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 »
Plugger.com.au gets Wotif backer
-- Australian business news aggregator Plugger.com.au will re-brand as 'Wotnews.com.au' following a licensing and investment deal with high-profile Wotif.com founder and local multi-millionaire Graeme Wood. Read more »
ExitReality's CEO exits, really
-- Melbourne-based technology start-up ExitReality confirmed yesterday that it had lost its chief executive just before it formally launched last week. Read more »
StartupCamp Melbourne: The review
-- StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0. Read more »
Windows 7 is Vista--
-- The prevailing consensus is that Windows 7 will be Vista++, but it may actually be Vista--, as Microsoft confirmed that they would be removing the built-in programs for e-mail, photo editing and movie making Read more »
StartupCamp comes to Melbourne
-- In early October, Melbourne will get its own version of the StartupCamp project that saw three new technology start-ups launched last weekend. Read more »
Spellr.us needs a new dictionary
-- One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »
Cinergix waves Australian flag
-- Just one Australian start-up appears to have made the final cut for the US-based DEMO and TechCrunch50 conferences this week: Melbourne-based firm Cinergix, which has produced an online collaborative process design tool dubbed Creately. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending 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 »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.