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New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11

Aiming to keep pace with Microsoft and advance the computing frontier, the group behind OpenGL has announced a new version of its interface designed to make advanced graphics easier for programmers to handle. Read more »

Sun threatened by Microsoft, Apple over patents

Revealing a bit of previously hush-hush history that's relevant today, Sun Microsystems' former chief executive said that both Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had threatened Sun for infringing their patents. Read more »

Facebook still pitching itself to open-source crowd

Facebook's rep at the Future of Web Apps event in Miami this week was David Recordon, the company's open-standards guru. That's a crowd that the social network still has yet to win over. Read more »

Kaspersky: Target zombie servers too

Russian antivirus tsar, Eugene Kaspersky, says Australian ISPs should not only cut off malware-infected personal computers but also infected web servers run by businesses. Read more »

Google Social Search out of Labs, into beta

Friends on social-networking services who add links to their content inside their Google Profiles will start showing up in search results for Google users. Read more »

Bill Gates shares his notes

Now you have a chance to compare notes with Bill Gates. Read more »

Microsoft brings kids developer tool to the PC

Originally developed for the Xbox, Microsoft now has a Windows version of Kodu -- a tool for letting pre-teens create their own code. Read more »

Microsoft web-graphics move signals IE ambitions

In a new sign of Microsoft's ambitions to make Internet Explorer more competitive with rival browsers, the company said on Tuesday it's joining a group overseeing a graphics format that offers some advantages for today's web. Read more »

Yahoo joins the real-time search parade

Not to be outdone by its rivals, Yahoo is getting into the real-time search business as well. Read more »

MySpace launches new developer tools

Not willing to let Facebook and Twitter completely own the market for searchable, up-to-the-minute information, MySpace announced on Wednesday a set of new developer application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to let third-party sites access more of its content. Read more »

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10 ways to avoid mistakes during project development

The best strategy for dealing with mistakes is to avoid making them in the first place. Here are some tips to help you navigate around common project pitfalls. Read more »

Project management: Escaping the vortex

Have you been on a project where everywhere you look a process or procedure or design is broken? Here's how to deal with it. Read more »

Workflow Patterns

In this serialisation of Chapter 15 from the book Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, we look at some of the more complex, yet common use cases and how these can be addressed in a relatively straightforward fashion by the Workflow Service. Read more »

O'Reilly: The web is at war, and it's making me sad

Web pioneer and conference honcho Tim O'Reilly warned the audience at the Web 2.0 Expo here on Tuesday afternoon that he thinks "we're headed into another ugly time". 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 ways to make sure your conference calls aren't a waste of time

The downturn in travel budgets has sparked an increase in the number of conference calls among those collaborating across distributed environments. Unfortunately, a lot of those calls are poorly handled, by both leaders and participants. These pointers will help keep your calls on track. Read more »

Red Hat announces strategy to 'future-proof' Java

Red Hat announced the JBoss Open Choice application platform strategy, an approach that the company says will redefine the use of Java in the enterprise by making it easier to develop and deploy applications. Read more »

10 ways to be a good manager during a recession

It's tough enough to be an effective manager when the economy is strong. But making the right decisions, keeping staff focused, and maintaining IT service levels may seem next to impossible when you're managing through an economic crisis. Here are some ideas for keeping yourself and your team afloat. Read more »

10 tech mistakes small businesses make

Small businesses must concentrate their time and energy on knowing their own industry -- and that often means that effective technology practices get overlooked. This article explains the most common tech missteps encountered, along with preventive measures IT consultants can take to assist in correcting these problems. Read more »

10+ ways to avoid misunderstandings at work

Miscues happen all the time in business communications, and the results can range from annoying to disastrous. Here are some simple rules to follow that can save you a world of trouble when communicating with colleagues and partners. Read more »

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Oracle announces Exadata 2

At Oracle's OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, CEO Larry Ellison previews the company's Exadata Version 2 computer. He says the new database computer is designed for online transaction processing and data warehousing. He adds that Exadata 2 can do faster processing at a much lower cost than its biggest competitor, IBM. Read more »

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Behind the scenes at Tech.Ed

ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference. Read more »

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Motorola debuts Motoblur and Cliq

At the Mobilize conference held in San Francisco, Motorola unveiled Motoblur, a new user interface based around social networking. The Android OS-based skin will feature live widgets for integrating sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as aggregating contact details and displaying recent status updates during calls. Read more »

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A sneak preview of WWDC 2009

Apple always manages to deliver some surprises at its annual World Wide Developers Conference. Our panel of experts sits down to discuss what it expects to see this year. Read more »

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Project Kenai at JavaOne

At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco, Robert Brewin, CTO for Sun Microsystems, and John Brock, part of the Connected Developer Team for Project Kenai, demonstrate how developers will be able to use this new site to gain visibility, collaborate, and connect on projects over the Internet. Read more »

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Taking security to the cloud

Security-as-a-service was the big theme at this year's RSA Conference in San Francisco. ZDNet.com editor in chief Larry Dignan talks with senior editor Sam Diaz, and security blogger Ryan Naraine about how companies are securing the cloud. Read more »

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Salesforce.com launches Sites

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, announced the company's latest venture. With Force.com Sites, customers can build, host, and allow individual users to customize a public Web page using Force.com technologies. Along with Parker Harris, Salesforce co-founder and executive vice president of technology, he demos the way New Jersey Transit uses Sites to keep their riders updated--even on the go with iPhones or Blackberrys. Read more »

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Ballmer's Best and Firewalls -- Club Builder

With Steve Ballmer in the country this week, its time to present the "Best of Ballmer". Club Builder also looks at the goverment's firewall plans as well as news from Microsoft's PDC conference. Read more »

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Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure. The new OS is a framework that allows you to scale from 10 users to 10 million users without additional coding. Ozzie also discusses what the technology means for developers and businesses. Read more »

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Microsoft hopes 7 is lucky

A two-day Microsoft developer conference begins Monday in Los Angeles, where the company is expected to give details on its cloud platform and Windows 7. In this Daily Debrief, CNET's Ina Fried explains to Kara Tsuboi why consumers can expect more Read more »

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Chrome OS source code unveiled

[blogs:syslog] -- Google has open sourced the code of its web-based Chrome operating system. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Aussie creates iPhone virus

[blogs:syslog] -- An Aussie hacker has created a worm that places a background picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones that have SSH enabled, and released its source code. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »

News from Oracle OpenWorld 2009

[blogs:syslog] -- News from the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Flash comes to iPhone

[blogs:syslog] -- Adobe staged its Max 2009 conference in LA this week. A number of announcements were made during the keynote, including that Flash is finally coming to the iPhone. Read more »

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Pirate Party Hits Australia

[blogs:syslog] -- The Pirate Party has caused quite a stir this week as it battles to become an official party in Australia. The controversial group, which already has success in Sweden and Germany, plans to tackle issues relating to intellectual property. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »

TechCrunch50 Rundown

[blogs:syslog] -- TechCrunch50 hit San Francisco this week with a number of big players announcing new products and features. Read more »

Hackers attack government websites

[blogs:syslog] -- A hackers' alliance staged a denial-of-service attack on websites of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ACMA on Wednesday night. Read more of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Mobile devices get app virtualisation

[blogs:syslog] -- At its annual conference in San Francisco, VMware announced plans to bring virtualisation to smartphones, which will allow users to run applications including those that are designed for different platforms. Read more »

Microsoft and Yahoo join forces

[blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft and Yahoo have united this week to jointly battle Google, and Mozilla revealed plans to make Firefox look more like Chrome. Read more »

Microsoft's altruism just an illusion

[blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft appeared to "get it" earlier this week, but it wasn't all that it seemed. Adobe and Oracle have been targeted by the security minded and the Windows 7 code has gone gold. 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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Microsoft showcases new NUIs

TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »

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Google to dump Gears

Google is about to pull the plug on its Gears project, while Mozilla plans to drop Mac OS X 10.4 support in future versions of Firefox. Read more »

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