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Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser
A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »
CIOs not testing Chrome
Despite the hype, it seems few IT departments are testing Google's recently launched Web browser Chrome — yet. Read more »
Google: No Web browser plans
Google executives said they have no plans to build a browser and downplayed threats from Microsoft's new advertising system and plans to bundle search into Vista. Read more »
Take browsers to the limit: Google
The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding edge features in browser software, the creator of Google Maps says. Read more »
Google debuts Gears for Firefox 3
Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon. Read more »
Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank
Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet. 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 »
Offline YouTube and Gmail makes sense: Google
Taking all Google properties offline would make sense eventually to Google's Australia and New Zealand engineering director, Alan Noble. Read more »
Sun and Google shake hands
Sun Microsystems and Google announced a multiyear partnership on Tuesday to help spread and develop each other's software, a deal that includes OpenOffice.org, Java and OpenSolaris from Sun, and Google's Toolbar. Read more »
Adobe blasts Apollo into beta through AIR
Adobe Systems on Monday released a beta version of AIR, a software download formerly called Apollo, that makes Web-native applications operate like desktop programs. Read more »
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Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »
What does Google Chrome offer developers?
This article discusses Chrome's tools for working with Web pages and weighs in on whether you should ditch IE or Firefox for Chrome. Read more »
Automate and extend Firefox with the Chickenfoot add-on
Chickenfoot is a Firefox add-on that allows you to automate user actions within the browser environment. It also lets you extend the browser interface to provide additional features to a Web page. Read more »
What is cross-site scripting?
Cross-site scripting, also known as "XSS," is a class of security exploit that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the last few years. This article explains what it is and where the dangers lie. Read more »
Interview: The future of mobile development
In the first instalment of our Web Directions South content, we ask mobile business experts Rob Manson and Alex Young where they think the Australian mobile development market is going in the near future. Read more »
AJAX and the Microsoft approach
Let's take a closer look at the AJAX revolution, including Microsoft's involvement and approach. Read more »
The Seven Deadly Sins of AJAX application development
The AJAX bandwagon is a good place to be. It takes you to faster, more efficient, more dynamic apps. But it also has pitfalls all its own. 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 »
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 »
Flex: The new face of design and development
Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »
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Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone
-- 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 »
AJAX applications and security
-- Douglas Crockford, the creator of JSON, gave a talk entitled "AJAX Security" at the recent Web Directions South conference. In this talk, Crockford discussed some of the security concerns with AJAX applications and what can be done to address them. Read more »
Web - the next frontier... again
-- Web is making a comeback. But are developers ready? Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.