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US Homeland Security e-mail gaffe exposes secrets

A technical contractor may have started a chain of events that led to security professionals divulging classified information 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 Thunderbird 2 takes flight

Mozilla on Thursday launched Thunderbird 2, the latest version of its free, open-source e-mail client featuring message tagging and customisation. Read more »

Web threats to surpass e-mail pests

By next year, Internet users can expect more cyberattacks to originate from the Web than via e-mail, security firm Trend Micro predicts. 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 »

Hotmail to offer 250MB of free storage

Microsoft said Wednesday that it will boost storage limits in its Hotmail Web e-mail service, a move intended to counter similar steps taken by rivals Google and Yahoo. Read more »

PDF spam not a threat: Adobe

PDF spam is more a nuisance than a security risk, according to Adobe, which claims there is "no hard evidence" where the junk e-mail has become a serious issue. 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 »

BlackBerry to get Windows Live apps

BlackBerry smartphones will soon come with Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger, following the announcement of an agreement between RIM and Microsoft. Read more »

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10 secrets to great e-mail marketing

Are you in the process of developing an e-mail campaign? Keep on top of the game with these tips from local expert Fred Schebesta. Read more »

5 tips to avoid e-mail miscommunication

Here are 5 quick tips to communicate better in work e-mails and spend less time during the day in your e-mail inbox. Read more »

Getting things done with mutt

David Allen created the GTD (Getting Things Done) work-life management system and it has really become a way of life for many people. Vincent Danen shows you how to how to implement this system using the email client mutt. Read more »

Cyber-bludging special: Acceptable usage

There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. Read more »

The power of Net words

Many business Web sites try to impress visitors with the latest in multimedia effects and high powered graphics. As ZDNet Australia found, however, they might be ignoring the most powerful lure - good old-fashioned words. 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 »

Debug an application remotely

Debugging can often be handled on a developer's local machine, but some problems exist solely in a test or production environment. This article shows how to debug remotely. 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 »

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 »

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Sending the Inbox into receivership

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- If you've got an e-mail inbox with thousands of e-mails just sitting there, chances are you are living inside your inbox and that you are a slave to mail notifications. To overcome this problem and get on top of your e-mail rather than vice versa, here are a couple of techniques. Read more »

Is your boss wearing their pjs, or perhaps less?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Next time you are on your phone to your boss and they are at home, best probably not to wonder what their attire is. 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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