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Google reveals Android source code

A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »

VMware: Microsoft has 'no car'

Microsoft's virtualisation offering was like tyres without a car, according to Paul Harapin, VMware's Asia Pacific vice president, who today said his company's future direction would put it in increasing conflict with Redmond. Read more »

Gates: Privacy a 'challenge' as software advances

As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose an "interesting software challenge," says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

Q&A: Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield

In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant. Read more »

When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache

Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of open source software's biggest supporters. Read more »

Virtualisation to drive staff-owned PCs at work

Virtualisation's ability to separate the operating system from hardware will give companies the choice to let staff run their own devices at work, according to analysts — but security remains problematic today. Read more »

Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

.NSW, .Uluru, .Oz, .footy domains coming in 2009?

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said. Read more »

Holograms beamed to handsets by 2010

Holographic mobile handsets capable of projecting, capturing and sending 3D images have been developed by an Indian tech company. Read more »

IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips

Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »

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Carla Fiorina's mouth, meet Carly Fiorina's brain

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina's gift of glib gab backfired on her Tuesday when she became too candid for her own political good. Read more »

Are you going to upgrade to Windows Server 2008?

There is a lot of hype in the IT industry when it comes to new releases of products. Look at the iPhone, Windows Vista, WiMax, OS X Leopard. This article digs through the hype to help you make a decision for yourself whether migrating to Windows Server 2008 will be worth it in the next 18-24 months. Read more »

Inside the San Fran network lockout

A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears. Read more »

Vista is sunk

It's not really a mid-life crisis, not really. But eighteen months after Vista appeared - and eighteen months before Windows 7 - Vista has bought a metaphoric red sports car and a new pair of tight jeans, and is getting ready to go on the pull. Read more »

Handling conflicts of interest

Because conflict of interest decisions sometimes have to be made in the spur of the moment, I advise conservatism when making them. It may lead to a missed opportunity, but I would rather miss out on a -good deal" than deal with the repercussions of a bad choice. Read more »

Define project scope to include deliverables, boundaries, and requirements

There are two places that scope is defined on your project. High-level scope is defined in your project charter. Low-level scope is defined in your business requirements document. Read more »

Showing off at JavaOne

While the hype has been elsewhere in the software world over the past number of years, Java has continued to find it way into an increasing number of places. Read more »

Interview: Microsoft's security guru, Steve Riley

Before the start of Tech.Ed 06 Builder AU caught up with Steve Riley who works at Microsoft as a Senior Security Strategist to talk about Vista's new networking stack, security vs usability, and the uptake of IPv6. 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 »

Interview: Iain McDonald

Born and bred in Australia, Iain McDonald works at Redmond as director of the Windows Server Group. We caught up with McDonald briefly before TechEd 2005 to talk about the future of Microsoft's platforms. Read more »

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Jobs unveils GPS for the 3G iPhone

At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs demonstrates GPS on the new 3G iPhone. Jobs shows how an iPhone travelling in a car going down San Francisco's famously crooked Lombard Street can be tracked as its user navigates the curves. Read more »

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Sex will solve IT skills shortage

20 years ago Indian students sweated for degrees in engineering and science, but today these courses are not being filled. The problem is sex appeal, says Gartner research fellow, Andy Kyte. It will take programmers driving sports cars to inspire kids to get degrees in the field. Read more »

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Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- 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 »

StartupCamp Melbourne: The review

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- 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 »

NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »

Hack attack week

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- It wasn't a good week to be an Alaskan vice-presidential candidate, an online publication or even a multinational science project -- as all were compromised by hackers this week. Read more »

The Portal of the Future

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, I attended Gene Phifer talk: "Portal of the Future: What's Beyond Web 2.0?". Read more »

Outsourcing made wrong

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Outsourcing is hot! Every major corporation around the globe is outsourcing all or part of their software development -- and unfortunately the result is lots of unsuccessful projects. Read more »

How soon is Semantic?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At some point in the future you will be able arrive at work George Jetson-style. Your electric flying car will be streaming content to you from the new Semantic Web while your son in the backseat will be enjoying Duke Nukem Forever. Read more »

Linux.conf.au hits top gear

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The public holidays and mini-conferences are over -- it was time for linux.conf.au to move into the schedule proper. Read more »

Apple shipping the Mark Webber of hard drives

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The hard drives within Apple computers seem to pull mechnical failure and random incidents into play whenever you think things are fine -- just like our man in F1: M. Webber. Read more »

How Microsoft dealt with GPLv3

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The easiest way for Microsoft to avoid the snare of the Free Software Foundation is to step around GPLv3 and leave it to their partners -- this is certainly the case for Silverlight. Read more »

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LCA Open Day

Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »

Mini-Confs Day 1

Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering a range of topics 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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