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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 »
Yahoo opens up geographic data to Web sites
Yahoo is letting outside Web sites use information from its own catalogue of geographic information, thus allowing programmers to employ Yahoo data and services in their own applications. Read more »
Oracle announces Database 11g beta
Company says beta includes 482 new features designed to add flexibility to database administration. Read more »
MySQL hits US$50 million revenue, plans IPO
Open-source database maker hopes going public will raise funds for acquisitions, CEO Marten Mickos says. Read more »
Sun floats open-source database idea
Sun Microsystems has raised the possibility that it might offer customers its own database, a move that could trigger displeasure at Oracle but curry favor with open-source advocates. Read more »
Microsoft prepares for Yukon, Longhorn
The software company readies new development tools before planned releases of revamped database and Windows operating system software. Read more »
Microsoft says new database coming by end '05
After numerous delays, the next editions of Microsoft's main software development products SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 will be available in November. 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 »
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 »
VMware dangles next-gen virtualisation goodies
VMware has some new ideas for tackling an age-old problem for system administrators: how do you keep a computing service available when the server it's running on fails? Read more »
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IBM unveils toolkit for talking computers
IBM on Wednesday announced the general availability of a software toolkit developers can use to build speech-recognition and other "multimodal" applications for Linux computers. Read more »
Oracle's Jarvis: Unplugged--but not unarmed
In an interview with ZDNet, Oracle marketing chief Mark Jarvis managed to critique most of the competition. Ariba, Commerce One, I2, and Siebel? All history. IBM? A copycat. Microsoft? Vulnerable. Read more »
Innovative multimodal interfaces with SALT technology
Handheld devices with wireless network connections are increasingly prominent. Software developers are creating applications for these devices that take advantage of new technologies like Speech Application Language Tags. Are you developing one? Read more »
Develop a VoiceXML solution using BeVocal
VoiceXML (VXML) is a markup language like HTML. The difference is that a phone browser rather than a Web browser renders VXML. Get started with this article. Read more »
Are key performance indicators a true measure?
Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development? Read more »
Web 2.0 meets the enterprise
Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »
The benefits of the Web ontology language in Web applications
To reach the visionary goal of a Semantic Web, the W3C must develop a Web ontology language. Get an overview of this farsighted concept and contemplate the various use cases that make this language vital to the future of the Web. Read more »
Aussie coders changing the world
Though they may not be household names like Thorpie or Lleyton, Aussie developers rank among the world's best. Simon Sharwood profiles our top five geeks. Read more »
James Gosling Q & A
James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »
Cyber-bludging special: Acceptable usage
There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. Read more »
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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.