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Microsoft's Europe prices attract lawsuit
A Dutch software dealer has filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission, arguing that the company's pricing policy in Europe violates antitrust laws. Read more »
Yahoo to chop at least 1,400 jobs
Yahoo yesterday in the US reported a 64 per cent drop in net income for the third quarter, issued cautions about a weakening advertising market, and confirmed that layoffs were indeed on the way. Read more »
Firefox and Chrome speed up
With new beta versions out for Firefox and Google Chrome, it's time to see how things have changed when it comes to testing the speed of JavaScript, the programming language that powers many cutting-edge Web applications such as Gmail and Google Docs. The answer: both browsers made big strides, but Firefox still beats Chrome on one widely-used performance test. Read more »
UK beefs up huge snooping database
The UK Home Secretary has stressed the need for even greater snooping powers for government, even as the country is planning a massive interception database of all communications. Read more »
Microsoft tags Tech.Ed delegates
Microsoft today announced plans to track Australian delegates attending its annual Tech.Ed conference in Sydney next week using RFID tags embedded in conference badges. Read more »
IBM Australia faces strike action
IBM's Australian operation is facing the possibility of strike action amongst its workforce after a secret ballot opened yesterday between employees in a Baulkham Hills facility. Read more »
Data breach laws years away
The Australian Law Reform Commission yesterday released a report recommending Australia introduce data breach disclosure laws — but Senator John Faulkner said that bridge would not be crossed by government at least for the next 18 months. Read more »
UK govt to monitor all telecoms
UK internet service providers will be invited to tender for a British government scheme to monitor all internet communications and telecommunications in the country. Read more »
Samba 3.2 adds cluster support
The Samba project on Tuesday released a major update to the file and print components of the server software, adding clustered file system support, compatibility improvements and other changes. Read more »
Google tools to help users keep ISPs fair
Google is developing a suite of tools to help broadband users identify traffic discrimination by their internet service providers (ISPs). Read more »
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Control null data in Oracle using the ORDER BY clause
NULL data, which is sometimes called "absent" data, can be difficult to work with in relational databases. Learn how to control null data in Oracle using the ORDER BY clause. Read more »
Creative uses for COALESCE() in SQL Server
COALESCE() accepts a series of values and a value to use in the event that all items in the list are null; then, it returns the first not-null value. We describe two creative uses of the COALESCE() function in SQL Server. 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 »
Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople
Like the rest of us, salespeople and consultants are only doing their job -- but why do they have to be quite so annoying? Read more »
Open source for government
Despite the UK government's reluctance to embrace open source, Martin Brampton points out the many ways they're suited to each other -- the least of which is cost. Read more »
The open-source techie who means business
Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »
Why VB6 still matters
Visual Basic 6 code is something Microsoft needs to take another look at if it wants legacy applications to play nice with .NET Read more »
ColdFusion's Java connection
In this article we'll show how a ColdFusion developer hooks into the underlying power of Java with the help of a few simple functions. Read more »
Making an open source living, part 2
Steven Noels, a Belgian consultant and member of the Apache Software Foundation claims running a business based on open source software is possible. Read more »
Testing, testing: the overlooked aspect of development
Software testers can be vitally important to the success of a project, so why don't they need to be accredited? Read more »
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How useful is OpenSocial?
-- This week's coverage was all over the local MySpace developer launch, we took a look at Google's AppEngine, had more videos than we knew what to do with and can someone put us out of our misery buy Yahoo already! Read more »
Feeling fines with Microsoft
-- This week had Microsoft-related news coming at us from left, right and centre -- fines, launches and more Steve Ballmer than you can handle. Read more »
Microsoft says "open sesame"
-- While you may have been out last night watching the latest Rambo adventure with Sly Stallone making war for war's sake, Microsoft was busy declaring a truce with the open source community. Read more »
Conference time goes Hollywood
-- Conference season hit a high this week with three major conferences underway. Read more »
One Vista to rule them all?
-- Does the world need five versions of the one operating system? 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.