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Ex-Googlers join queue in crowded search market

Cuill, a search upstart founded by ex-Googlers, said Tuesday that it raised US$25 million in a second round funding led by Madrone Capital Partners. The company had previously raised US$8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners. Read more »

Scared or oblivious: Australia's SMEs on Linux

Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today. Read more »

Adobe server adds smarts to PDFs

Looking to garner more sales to business customers, Adobe has beefed up its server software for handling the flow of business forms based on the PDF format. Read more »

Business apps battle Java deadline

Developers of online business applications are racing to meet an industry-imposed deadline that could create security problems for their software. Read more »

JBoss salivates over Drools

JBoss announced on Tuesday it will soon add a business rules engine, known as Drools, to its open source software stack. Read more »

Researcher to expose Intel security flaws

An independent security researcher has flagged plans to reveal a proof of concept security exploit that could work remotely against any machine using Intel processors, including those used in Apple's famously secure Macs. Read more »

Novell CEO: We made Microsoft open up

Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery. Read more »

Browser faceoff: IE vs Firefox vs Opera vs Safari

Web 2.0, with its complex sites and rich Ajax applications, is an increasingly demanding platform for a browser. In this review feature, we look at how the leading browsers measure up. Read more »

Ballmer: Google is leader in advertising

Microsoft's chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has said that the software giant has a long way to go to compete with Google when it comes to search and advertising. Read more »

IDC Web site defaced by 'eco-terrorists'

The Web site of Global IT research firm IDC has been hacked by a group purporting to be Brazilian environmental terrorists to serve a message urging people to take action over global warming. Read more »

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Designing for distant shores, part 2

In our final part in our series on selling software overseas, Angus Kidman identifies the business issues you'll need to address. Read more »

Web services B2B implementation demonstration: Part 5

In the fifth article of our continuing Web services series, Kevin Koch implements the business logic and Web services associated with Tom's business tier, including the implementation of security protocols and asynchronous notification. Read more »

Can't J2EE and .NET just be friends?

The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer. But can they play nicely together? Read more »

Building the Linux business infrastructure

IBM has the Linux middleware tools you need today--but so do Oracle, BEA, and many other enterprise software vendors. Why the rush, and what's in it for you? Read more »

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What Ray Ozzie sees in Azure's cloud

In an interview after his keynote at the PDC, Ozzie talked about what Azure means for developers, businesses, and even the everyman. Read more »

Asia's open source hangup

One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. Read more »

Choose the right JDBC driver for your database interface

Picking the right driver can optimise connectivity between your Java apps and database. Read more »

10 things you should do near the end of a project

When it comes to the end of a project, many project managers come up just short of the finish line. Failure to handle the final steps can add confusion to an initiative and may lead to customer dissatisfaction, unhappy staff, and a project dragging on longer than necessary. Read more »

Nokia's big plans on the Qt

With the acquisition of Trolltech, Nokia has made its largest bet yet on changing the course of the industry. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Hitting the Seam with Gavin King

Gavin King is the founder of Hibernate and JBoss Seam, open source projects that attempt to make life as an enterprise Java developer easier. We sat down and discussed enterprise Java, open source and other tidbits related to Java. Read more »

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LinuxWorld Conference

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo is bearing down upon us! Read more »

Windows XP's last hurrah

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    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 »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase 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 »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay 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 »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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