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Mozilla refreshes its open-source backbone

Ten years on, Mozilla has concluded that its open-source underpinnings are due for a refresh. Read more »

Google's Chrome 4 brings extensions to Windows

Google has released its "stable" version of Chrome 4.0, an incarnation under development for months that brings extensions to customise Chrome features and a host of technologies for more powerful web programming. Read more »

Microsoft loses Word patent appeal, will change code

Microsoft has lost an appeal in a patent case that will force it to alter Microsoft Word to avoid an injunction on sales of the product. Read more »

Microsoft fixes Office 2003 bug with patch

Microsoft says it has a fix for a bug that was keeping Office 2003 users from being able to access some rights-managed files. Read more »

Bug keeps some Office users from their files

Some users of an older version of Microsoft Office may find that their protected documents are now not only protected, but completely inaccessible. Read more »

Office 2010 beta gets LinkedIn

Microsoft has released a beta of Office 2010 at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. The beta integrates social network LinkedIn with Outlook, offers a stripped back Excel for browser editing, and video editing tools for PowerPoint. Read more »

Google Docs adds live sharing to folders

Google Docs has long let users share documents between one another, but folders -- a feature Google begrudgingly added to Docs back in mid-2007 -- have largely been left out of the picture. Read more »

Microsoft creates social computing sandbox

Ray Ozzie has set up a new social computing lab at Microsoft, to be headed by Microsoft Research veteran Lili Cheng. Read more »

Native Client in Chrome: Google flexes web muscle

Google has built its Native Client technology into its newest version of Chrome, endowing the browser with new processing power for running web applications. Read more »

Google Wave greets conferencing with help from Ribbit

It's becoming clear that Google Wave, which is slowly emerging from closed beta, has the potential to be much more than a text-messaging platform. As the telecommunications platform company Ribbit shows -- as does a video-conference app from 6 Rounds -- Wave's architecture makes it a compelling platform for real-time streaming communication. Read more »

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Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »

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 »

Parse and process HTML with WebBrowser

The author describes how he used the WebBrowser control to parse HTML to extract data from it. Here are some of the issues he faced on this simple project. Read more »

10 things you shouldn't do when working with an upset customer

Nobody likes dealing with an angry user, but it comes with the tech territory. Here are a few ways to keep things from going from bad to worse. Read more »

10 open source Windows apps worth checking out

The open source community has a lot to offer, and not just to Linux users. These 10 outstanding Windows tools can make your life easier (for free). Read more »

10 old-school Linux tools I refuse to let go of

No matter which platform you prefer, there are probably a few old tools you just can't part with. Read more »

10 things you should never do on a consulting job

There are plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot when you're out on a job. This article lists a few of the worst offences. Read more »

Preparing for Exchange Server 2010's hardware and software requirements

Exchange 2010 is out and about and ready to deploy. This article provides you with some assistance on getting prepared for this latest release in the Exchange line. Read more »

10 questions to ask when selecting open source products for your enterprise

To make sure you realise all the benefits of open source, run these simple background checks on an open source project. Read more »

Code concepts: Parallel extensions

The Parallel Extensions library from .NET (PFx) supports a range of parallel programming paradigms. Here's an overview of the three main concepts in PFx. Read more »

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Microsoft Office executive claims OOXML provides greater security than alternative document formats

Redmond-based group project manager of Microsoft Office, Gray Knowlton, told ZDNet Australia that OOXML provides higher levels of security. "One of the benefits we have with the OpenOffice XML formats is that we know when we read and write and document because we have an XML based representation of what's in that content -- we know what should and should not be there," he said. Read more »

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Microsoft in hot water over stolen code

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has been accused of stealing code from a microblogging start-up called Plurk. Read more »

Chrome OS source code unveiled

Staff [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 »

Non-professional Oracle wrestling

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into. Read more »

Yahoo's Outlook alternative: Zimbra Desktop

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you could collect your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and corporate messages into a single in-box, would you switch? Read more »

Playing with semantics

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Semantic Web, Microsoft's upcoming app store and a security flaw in Google Docs are amongst some topics that made news this week. Find out more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Gmail grows up with offline e-mail access

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Significantly increasing the utility and competitiveness of its web-based e-mail service, Google is enabling an experimental ability to read, write, and search Gmail messages even while not connected to the network. Read more »

Down to Semantics

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Web Directions South conference in Sydney, David Peterson presented "Semantic Web for Distributed Social Networks". Read more »

Microsoft's PDC Potpourri

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- While not game-breaking in their own right, these little titbits complete the picture from Microsoft's recent PDC conference at Los Angeles. Read more »

Flash vs. Silverlight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we take a look at the latest versions of Flash and Silverlight, Windows 7 and what's new in the world of open source. Read more »

.NET looks to REST

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »

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