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auDA introduces new rules to block domain hogs

In a series of reforms announced this week, the Australian Domain Name Administrator (auDA) has regulated against domain traders by outlawing the practice of registering a domain name for the sole purpose of reselling it. Read more »

Businesses advised to register .asia domains

Companies with an Asian presence should consider registering .asia domain names to prevent cybersquatting, internet registries have argued Read more »

Web domains hit new high

If the size of the World Wide Web was measured by the number of domain names then it is growing faster than at any time in its history, according to figures released by research and analysis firm Netcraft last week. Read more »

Legal war heats up over porn claims

The domain administration for the Pacific island nation of Niue is so incensed by a study which says its sites are amongst the most prolific sources of pornography online that it has threatened legal action. Read more »

Kaminsky details DNS flaw

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky has offered more details about a fundamental flaw in the Domain Name System and the extent of the vulnerability. Read more »

Adobe Flash 9 update to destroy and save Web apps

Adobe is issuing an update to Flash Player 9 that it hopes will prevent Flash-based Web applications being used to launch attacks against consumers — but the update may also stop Flash apps working if developers don't heed Adobe's recommendations. 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 »

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 »

DNS servers 'vulnerable to attack'

Many DNS servers are wrongly configured or running out-of-date software, leaving them vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to a survey published on Monday. Read more »

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Microsoft makes consumers suffer: EU court

A European court dealt a severe blow to Microsoft's competitive ambitions in Europe on Monday by siding with regulators in an antitrust case against the company. Read more »

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Beef up Active Directory security with these three steps

The Active Directory (AD) structure and the data contained in it are the keys to a Windows domain, and it's vital to implement the proper security. Here are three simple steps you can take to boost AD's security. 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 »

The benefits of agile development

I recently spoke to Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, Rational Software from IBM about the benefits of the agile development method. Read more »

Disable NetBIOS and SMB to protect public Web servers

Serving data to users outside of an internal network, public Web servers are typically the first point of contact for an external attack. You need to make sure you've disabled the services that are specifically for intranets. Read more »

80% of software is no brain work: Ivar Jacobson

Efficiency, Code Reuse and Artificial Intelligence -- we sat down with one of the inventors of UML and the RUP to talk about how the software industry has to change in the next five years. Read more »

Initial Planning for an XP Project

In this article our resident Builder AU columnist Steve Hayes highlights the need for initial planning on XP projects Read more »

Designing for application quality

Quality is such a ubiquitous goal in software engineering. Scott Withrow takes identifies a number of primary quality attributes for consideration in your project. Read more »

Pair programming - it takes twice as long

Pair programming is one of the most contentious practices within Extreme Programming - both supporters and detractors can become quite emotional. So what is pair programming, and why do people become so emotional about it? Read more »

Consuming Web services in Flash MX

More than a tool for Flashturbation, the latest version of Macromedia's Web development environment can have plenty of serious uses too. Read more »

The future looks PHPerfect

With versions on most Web platforms, a library of databases and Web/XML services, PHP may be the next-generation Web language for your network. Read more »

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Google plans new Internet measurement tool

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google is expected to unveil a tool Tuesday that measures Internet use to help advertisers identify the best places to buy ads that will reach its target audience. 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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