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IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon

IBM on Monday launched a major initiative into 'cloud computing', a current term for internet-based services, in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google. Read more »

Magnet allows tongue driven PC

Engineers have developed technology that would allow people with severe disabilities to operate a wheelchair or computer by moving their tongue. Read more »

In China, Microsoft eyes innovation

Innovation can often come unexpectedly, so researchers should be given the freedom and opportunity to explore new ideas, says the head of Microsoft's research lab in Beijing. Read more »

Gates: Privacy a 'challenge' as software advances

As software gets more powerful, privacy issues pose an "interesting software challenge," says Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

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Stateless computing to become core to cloud computing?

As companies glom onto cloud computing, stateless computing is likely to emerge as a core tenant within the cloud and one that can deliver cost savings, predicted the chief technology architect for Merrill Lynch. Read more »

Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »

JobWatch: What goes up is now coming down

The sharp rise in demand for IT skills throughout 2007 is well and truly in retreat according to the latest figures from the Olivier Job Index. Read more »

Sun sheds light on its open-source future

Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development. Read more »

Q&A: Debian leader on not being in it for the money

The Debian GNU/Linux operating system continues to generate interest from developers around the world, keen to sign up and contribute code to the open-source project now in its 15th year. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

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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 »

First impressions of ASP.NET's MVC framework

Find out why you may want to use Microsoft's Model View Controller (MVC) framework instead of Web Forms. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

RIFE with possibilities

Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC

The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »

HTML 5 aims to formalise Semantic HTML

It's kind of hard to believe that it's almost been a decade since HTML 4.01 was made official. However, it has taken browsers a while to recognize the standard, and this process continues today. Read more »

Red ring of death is closer than you think

It can seem hard to believe that a company with all the resources of Microsoft can make make a billion-dollar mistake with a small chip-design fault. Yet chip design is not an exact science and Rupert Goodwins, who has been there himself, details how it can go horribly wrong. Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

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Model Driven Development

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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- 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 »

Gartner: Social software projects lack purpose

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Social software projects fail because IT management lack purpose of their deployment according to the industry analyst firm. Read more »

StartupCamp comes to Melbourne

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- In early October, Melbourne will get its own version of the StartupCamp project that saw three new technology start-ups launched last weekend. Read more »

Everyone wants to be agile

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- During a recent trip to China and Australia I observed that everyone wants to be agile. In a round table meeting with CIO’s, I usually ask what people are particularly interested in right now. Five years ago a common answer was we are trying to adopt the Unified Process. Now, the same question returns the answer we are trying to move to agile. Thus you would assume that people know what agile is. Read more »

Is that $500 million in your wallet?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Have we officially returned to the silly season of the late 1990s? If not, there was a momentous step closer taken this week. Read more »

CodeGear ready Ruby release

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear have announced this week they will be releasing an integrated development environment(IDE) for Ruby on Rails developers in the second half of 2007. Read more »

Microsoft tips for pitching to Linux geeks

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Sometimes something appears that makes you scratch your head so much that you fear that you may inflict a self-imposed scalping Read more »

Will OLPC change Linux?

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- If OLPC is successful then the next generation of programmers will come from an environment that is a vast change from the fringe desktop that we live in today. Read more »

CodeGear Q&A

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- CodeGear is the new name for Borland's developer tools business. Builder AU spoke to CodeGear about the handover and direction of the developer tools business under the new banner. Read more »

The break-up of Borland

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- This week I caught up with David Intersomone, VP of developer relations worldwide, and Malcolm Groves, regional product director for Asia Pacific, from Borland's Developer Tools Group to talk about the immediate and planned future of the group once this division is sold by Borland. Read more »

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LCA Open Day

Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff 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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