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Yahoo hopes to charm developers with Go 3.0

Yahoo is hoping to prove it can be as mobile and open as its rivals. Read more »

Net applications speak 'wiki'

Excite.com co-founders will announce a new start-up geared toward letting developers build Web applications. Read more »

Google debuts Gears for Firefox 3

Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon. Read more »

Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser

A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »

Thunderbird gets Mozilla US$3m to 'do a Firefox'

Mozilla wants to reproduce the Firefox Web browser's success with Thunderbird, its open-source e-mail software. Read more »

Microsoft readies VoIP software beta

After months of anticipation, corporate customers will soon get their hands on a beta version of Microsoft's VoIP software, an event that marks an important step in the evolution of corporate communications. Read more »

IBM updates Notes, Domino

IBM's Lotus division has introduced the latest updates to its desktop messaging and collaboration server software. Read more »

Tool time for Longhorn

Later this year, Microsoft will release tools to grease the skids for Longhorn, and next year will unveil new Exchange and BizTalk lines. Read more »

Alliance turns up heat on spam

Yahoo, Microsoft, Comcast and others announced a proposal of best practices for filtering and sending e-mail. Read more »

Mozilla previews e-mail program

Weeks after the successful launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released an e-mail application in another salvo on Microsoft's home turf. Read more »

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Essential bookmarks for the .NET developer

Check out these online links that Tony Patton highlights as essential bookmarks for .NET developers. Read more »

The LAMP development toolkit

Need to dust up your Linux, Apache, PHP, Perl, Python, and MySQL (LAMP) software stack skills? Our LAMP development toolkit is just what you need. Read more »

10 tech skills you should develop during the next five years

If you want a job where you can train in a particular skill set and then never have to learn anything new, IT isn't the field for you. But if you like to be constantly learning new things and developing new skills, you're in the right business. In the late 80s, NetWare and IPX/SPX administration were the skills to have. Today, it's all about TCP/IP and the Internet. Read more »

10 things you should do near the end of a project

When it comes to the end of a project, many project managers come up just short of the finish line. Failure to handle the final steps can add confusion to an initiative and may lead to customer dissatisfaction, unhappy staff, and a project dragging on longer than necessary. Read more »

Special report: Tech.Ed 2005

This year Builder AU will be updating all the latest news, blogs, and interviews from Tech.Ed 2005 live from the Gold Coast. Read more »

How to design a service-oriented architecture using Web services

If you're a consultant preparing for the Web services revolution, this is the advice that will make you the architect and most trusted adviser on the project. Read more »

Getting the mail in: receiving in JavaMail

While sending e-mail from an application may be more common, you'll probably want to fetch mail from a server at some point as well. Here we show you JavaMail's receiving functions. Read more »

The 10 worst ways to communicate with end users

To be successful in a technical role, you have to become a skilled communicator. See if you recognise any of these 10 common missteps, which are guaranteed to impede your ability to work effectively with your users. Read more »

Smart planning reduces Web services security risks

Web services have great potential, but security concerns are preventing many organisations from taking advantage of the technology. Here are several suggested policies that CIOs can follow to develop a solid Web services plan. Read more »

The Age of Automation

The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the electronic butler. Read more »

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You've got patched flaws!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Patents and Symantec were made to look very silly this week. Microsoft said that open source was a bigger threat than Google and no prizes for guessing which month the final version of Firefox 3 will appear in. 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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