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Thousands of AU developers protest US trade pact
Almost 3,000 developers from Australia and abroad have voiced their opposition to the proposed intellectual property clauses in the United States-Australia Free Trade agreement. Read more »
Australian students win global software competition
A group of Australian students have just been crowned winners of the Imagine Cup, a global competition in software design. Read more »
Australia number one in Asia Pacific for offshoring
The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations. Read more »
Linux Australia honours IP lawyer
Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall was honoured with an award for service to the open source community Read more »
Renewed Linux trademark bid in the works
The United States-based body responsible for protecting the "Linux" name appears to be making a renewed push to register it as a trademark in Australia. Read more »
Start-up dismisses Australian investment
Australia-based podcasting business The Podcast Network is packing up its local presence and relocating to the United States. Read more »
Internet Godfather makes way for new Don at ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has elected New Zealand lawyer Peter Dengate Thrush as its new chairman, replacing one of the Internet's "founding fathers", Vint Cerf. Read more »
Torvalds trademark looms over Australian Linux industry
Australian companies trading on the name "Linux" may be exposed to copyright claims for the first time as early as next year if the nation's peak open source body gets its way. 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 »
SA government to streamline tender process for SMEs
The South Australian government is moving to streamline its procurement processes for information and communications technology (ICT) to reduce the high opportunity cost of bidding for government contracts, especially for small to medium enterprises (SME)s. Read more »
Features (21)
The importance of IP in Australia
With an increase in patent activity across the globe, we ask if businesses need to be concerned with their intellectual property. Read more »
Why open source is bad for Australia
Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »
Ask Chuck: Displaying graphs in VS.NET (part two)
As part two of Chuck's answer on displaying graphs with VS.NET, Alan Eldridge takes an alternative answer using Crystal decisions. Read more »
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 »
James Gosling Q & A
James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. 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 »
Builder AU's June Top 10
Have you had your head stuck in a project and missed the latest Builder AU news, features and reviews? Keep in touch with our top 10 stories for June. Read more »
Talking IP with Kimberlee Weatherall and Rusty Russell
Law professor and intellectual property expert Kimberlee Weatherall and Linux Australia's IP Policy Adviser, Rusty Russell, talk about the new intellectual property laws Read more »
Special coverage: Linux.conf.au 2004
Adelaide is set to host Linux.conf.au 2004 --one of the world's largest gatherings of open source developers--Builder AU takes you behind the scenes, in this exclusive coverage. Read more »
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Offline YouTube and Gmail Makes Sense: Alan Noble
While there is no plan currently, taking all Google properties offline would make sense eventually to Google's Australia and New Zealand engineering director Alan Noble. Read more »
Blog (5)
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
-- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
What to Expect in Java SE 7
-- At the Sun Tech Days Australia Conference last week, I attended Chuk-Munn Lee's presentation "Java SE 6 Top 10 Features and Java SE 7". Here are some features we can expect to see in Java SE 7. Read more »
Take off your suit pants and jacket -- It's Web 2.0
-- With the shortage of talented IT staff on hand the smell of dot-com culture has made a comeback. Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture , the future of yesterday. Read more »
Be a hero, get a Meego: IT Fund for kids competition.
-- Support the IT Fund for kids and you could win from an entertainment pack worth over $1,000! Read more »
Another day, another patent threat
-- Planning on building an AJAX application that will be hosted in the United States? First, you may need to pay for a licence if the latest patent debacle is enforced. 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
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.