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Android coders get high-speed graphics ability
Want better games on your Android phone? They may be coming sooner now, at least for Android 2.0 models. Read more »
Mozilla coders join Palm, apparently jabbing Apple
Two prominent web-based programming advocates have left Mozilla for Palm, arguing that the time has come to use browsers to bypass Apple's controlling role in mobile applications. Read more »
Why malware writers are turning to open source
Malware developers are going open source in an effort to make their malicious software more useful to fraudsters. Read more »
MonoTouch lets .NET coders build iPhone apps
Novell on Monday introduced MonoTouch 1.0, a development framework for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that uses Microsoft's .NET with C# and other programming languages. Read more »
Windows 7, Vista zero-day flaw reported
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is investigating reports of a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 7 and Vista. Read more »
Virtualisation gets ready for the mainstream
Virtualisation is a hot topic in the IT industry, to be found in every new processor, every datacentre and on every roadmap. But if the average person on the street has even heard of virtualisation, the idea probably left little impression beyond something to do with running corporate datacentres packed with computing hardware. Read more »
Mozilla switches on Firefox 3.5 update
A month and a half after Mozilla issued a significant update to its open-source web browser, the organisation has begun encouraging users of Firefox 3 to install version 3.5. Read more »
Google Wave picks off bugs as launch approaches
With two months to go before Google opens up Wave access to a larger audience, there is a lot of work still to be done, going by a demonstration last Tuesday at the search company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Read more »
Mozilla calls on coders to build web-tool index
Mozilla Labs has set up the Open Web Tools Directory, a bid to build a comprehensive list of the open-source developer tools available. Read more »
Android developers get native-code kit
A native application development kit has been released for Android developers, offering a way to create certain kinds of high-performing applications for handsets running the platform. Read more »
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10 open source headlines we'd like to see in 2010
At the beginning of a bright, shiny new year, a lot of things seem possible -- or at least worth imagining. Here are a few fantasy headlines. Read more »
FluidHTML seeks to bridge web programming divide
Today's web programmers face a big choice when it comes to fancier aspects of their sites: HTML or Flash? One start-up hopes it can bridge the gap with a technology called FluidHTML. Read more »
10 tips to go from a beginner to intermediate developer
Having trouble finding tips for beginner developers who want to take their career to the next level? This article aims to fill this information gap with his suggestions about how to make that leap. Read more »
Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »
Time to improve application deployment
How many of us pay any attention to the system engineers who need to actually deploy these things? The answer is, quite unfortunately, not enough of us. Read more »
Spry: Standards, Dreamweaver & the future
We caught up with Scott Fegette, technical product manager for Dreamweaver to discuss the ins and outs of the upcoming Spry release. Read more »
CVSDude: Queensland one day, global the next
Beginning with hardware bought on eBay, Brisbane-based CVSDude now manages source code for Apple, Intel and the BBC. Read more »
Check out these Web development tools from Microsoft
Many are often overwhelmed by the number of development tools and options streaming out of Redmond. Here's a rundown of the current Microsoft products that are available for building Web-based applications. Read more »
Teen iPhone hacker predicts two weeks: Interview
Builder AU tracked down the first person outside of Apple to get their hands on the inner workings of the iPhone and asked him the what, the where and the why of hacking the iPhone. Read more »
Metaliq flexes its creative expression
Metaliq build applications with Flex and Silverlight -- leaving them in the interesting position of playing two sides of the rich Internet application platform field. Read more »
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OpenLaszlo: Neutral ground for online developers
Laszlo Systems' OpenLaszlo environment makes it possible for Internet application coders to develop their applications once and run them on any of the top rich media platforms. The downside: it's using an outdated open source license whose terms are widely acknowledged as overreaching. Read more »
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Browsers and operating systems
-- Google is planning to enter the operating system market with Chrome OS, meanwhile Microsoft believes that the browser should start acting more like an operating system. Read more »
Azure: A matter of trust
-- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »
Microsoft's new identity tools
-- One of the topics at this year's PDC in Los Angeles was identity management. Microsoft has taken steps to ensure easier user authentication by announcing new tools for managing identities and the support for OpenID. 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 »
Samba gets an inside look at Microsoft documentation
-- A complicated third-party arrangement means that the open-source Samba project will be able to make use of proprietary documents describing Microsoft file-sharing software. Read more »
Busybox settles a second GPL suit
-- The folks behind Busybox have settled a second lawsuit that argued a company violated the widely used free and open-source license. Read more »
You shall be replaced by a small shell script
-- This week's roundup covers OSDC, Google's attempt to get school kids into open source, the roel of automation in software development, why we hate salespeople and more. Read more »
Code lean and keep it green?
-- Being green doesn't mean waiting for efficient hardware. When every wasted CPU cycle counts is it time to re-evaluate efficient coding techniques? Read more »
Photoshop, Meet Flash
-- It's conference season at the moment in the northern hemisphere and Adobe has been busy demonstrating some of the features of the next version of Flash, code named "Blaze". Designers are going to love this version as it has the ability to import PhotoShop files while preserving layers, editable text, shapes and effects. Read more »
Has Google Crippled Gmail for Safari?
-- One of the true failings of Ajax is that it's a mashup of a number of technologies that relies on various versions of code to support various browsers - that it's not complimented by a single cross-platform runtime like the Flash Player. Google's popular Gmail is likely to be the most used Ajax application today, and it like other Ajax applications it suffers from the inability to offer true cross browser support, especially for Safari. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
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Google launches Apps Marketplace
Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
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