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Microsoft moves first elements of Office online
Microsoft will soon release a beta of Office Live Workspace, a free tool for viewing, sharing and storing, but not editing, Office documents online. Read more »
Google joins OpenDocument group
Search giant may be planning to support the ODF file format in its online word processing and spreadsheet packages. Read more »
ODF guerillas rally for document freedom
Twenty-two organisations across 60 countries are taking part in DocumentFreedomDay (DFD) to raise awareness about what happens when formats are no longer supported by proprietary software. Read more »
Google open sources 'Protocol Buffers'
Google has open sourced an internal development tool called 'Protocol Buffers', a data description language that forms a basic part of the operation of the company's vast computing cluster. Read more »
Microsoft squares up to Google with Office for Web
Microsoft's answer to Google and other competitors in the online application market entered widespread beta testing on Tuesday. Read more »
Free Google Analytics: A spammer's best friend
Spammers are taking advantage of Google's free Analytics service to track the performance of spam campaigns and boost their business. Read more »
Google begins Gears-enabling its office apps
The Google Docs' word processor will be the first Google app to be made available offline using the free Google Gears extension, which means users will soon be able to read and edit their documents even without an Internet connection. Read more »
Google takes spreadsheets, presentations offline
Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix. Read more »
FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Read more »
Google: OOXML makes a mockery of ISO process
The head of Google's open-source programs on Monday urged international delegates to vote against certifying Office Open XML as an ISO standard, saying the Microsoft-led effort poses a risk to users who want unfettered access to documents. Read more »
Features (38)
Using Google as an application platform
Find out why Google Apps is a powerful alternative to more established products such as Microsoft SharePoint and IBM Lotus Notes. And, if Google Apps doesn't offer the applications you need, see why the Google App Engine might fit the bill. Read more »
Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit
At the Google Developer Day conference 2008 in Sydney, Lars Rasmussen, the head of engineering for Google Australia gave an overview of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) with his presentation "AJAX with Google Web Toolkit". Read more »
Make the most of mapping down under
Map-based mashups are appearing everywhere. Whether you're planning a bike commute or looking for hotels, Andrew Muller shows how Aussies can incorporate maps into applications. Read more »
Microformats and Mapping
We begin by looking at what a microformat is and how they are useful, then progress to introducing the Google Maps API and finally putting it all together to produce the user group map Read more »
Why open source is bad for Australia
Open source is actually anti-industry, and protecting it is not in Australia's interests, says one industry observer. Read more »
Navigating Oracle's public online documentation
Here's a quick guide to navigating Oracle's public online documentation library, which contains hundreds of books. Bob Watkins also offers a rundown of his favorite offerings in the collection. Read more »
Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »
Disclose data collection practices via privacy policies
Since Web site visitors are (understandably) wary of providing personal data, a common practice for Internet sites is to provide a privacy policy. Read more »
HTTP and HTML: The paradox of dominance
The saying, "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail," makes me think of the mess that we're in when it comes to the dominance of HTML and HTTP. Read more »
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Google Developer Day yet to fill
-- Past experience would suggest that if Google restricts access then people will clamour for it -- remember GMail invites back in the day? It is therefore surprising that places for Google's Sydney Developer Day have not been snapped up. Read more »
Google's Secret Sauce
-- A new Googler has offered a rare glimpse into the process by which the search giant turns ideas into products. Read more »
Newbie guide to Google's Android
-- Google's platform for mobile devices has been announced and ready for developers to get their hands dirty. Here's the basics of what it's all about and the core architecture overview. Read more »
Melbourne clichés: Things of stone and code
-- It's fair to say that the weather in Melbourne has changed as often as speaker's laptops have failed -- and I'd expect nothing less. Read more »
Google brew Java with Ajax
-- This week Google released a new toolkit for Java developers to make writing AJAX applications easy. Read more »
Do you trust data in the cloud?
-- Cheap hosted storage, app engines, and hosted code libraries. Can you really trust your data, or your client's data in the magical Web 2.0 cloud? Read more »
Debugging the manual #1
-- The most taxing part of solving most problems in IT is taking the effort to read the user manual and find the right documentation, right? Read more »
While the big guys scrap at the big end, who's creating the little guy's computer heaven?
-- Having sampled Google’s new calendar, I, for one, can’t wait until full synchronisation between it and Outlook’s calendar is full and fluent, so I can dispose of another chain to my desk. Read more »
The return to the king
-- Does the arrival of Web applications on the desktop warrant the death pronouncement of the desktop or is it just hot air? Read more »
The audience is the application
-- In a near-perfect feedback loop, the audience for software developers is now becoming part of the process, a primary development tool able to feed back its wishes and bend the outcome of developers’ efforts to better suit to its needs. Read more »
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Startup Camp Sydney: The reviewThree new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »
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Apple to developer: Fart jokes aren't funny
When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »
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Club Builder: Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox
In this episode of Club Builder: a new Firefox plug-in makes browsing more powerful, computer viruses enter orbit, and Microsoft gets a three-way serve of soapboxing.
