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Will Google Buzz be Wave's demise?
If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch, consider its demise an inside job. Read more »
Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job
Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee, has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. Read more »
Google announces business app store for Google Apps
Google is bringing the app store concept to business cloud computing, giving software developers a store front for Google Apps customers. Read more »
Office 2010 business launch in May
Microsoft has said that it plans to finalise the code for Office 2010 next month and, as expected, it kicked off a program enabling those who buy Office 2007 in the coming months to get a free upgrade to the new version. Read more »
800 IBM jobs at risk: Union
The Australian Services Union (ASU) claimed yesterday that IT giant IBM was looking to offshore around 800 jobs, many more than the 150 positions the union had originally believed affected. Read more »
IBM to offshore 150 jobs, says union
The Australian Services Union claimed today that IT giant IBM is planning to offshore jobs from a number of its operations centres to China and India. Read more »
Microsoft readies Office 2010 upgrade program
It is not uncommon for Microsoft to launch a "technology guarantee" program ahead of a new version of Office or Windows, offering buyers of a product late in one cycle an upgrade to the new version once it comes out. So it's not a shocker that Microsoft has one planned for Office 2010. Read more »
Google Apps gains remote admin controls for mobile
Google has launched new controls that let businesses remotely manage their employees' iPhone, Nokia E-series and Windows Mobile devices from the Google Apps control panel. Read more »
Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice
A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch web video or host it on their own sites. Read more »
Microsoft fixes 8 IE holes, including one used in attacks
Microsoft on Thursday issued a cumulative critical patch for Internet Explorer that fixes eight vulnerabilities, including a hole targeted in the China-based attacks on Google and other US companies. Read more »
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Talking smack about former employers not advisable
The author cautions those who leave their jobs (willingly or otherwise) to be careful about those farewell messages they leave behind. Read more »
Don't make assumptions about co-workers based on their behaviour
There are a lot of things you can control at your workplace, but a fellow employee is not one of them. Read more »
Get the most out of your yearly performance review
What you say in your performance review is not all that different than what you would include in your resume. Here are some tips. 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 »
Development trends to watch in 2010
What will be important development trends in 2010? This article covers .NET 4, Visual Studio 2010, cloud computing and more. Read more »
Don't volunteer if you can't close the deal
The best thing you can do for your career is the one thing that renders all on-the-job competition irrelevant, and it requires no special tools or intelligence: take action. Read more »
Are employee self-evaluations worthless?
A study from Cornell brings the value of employee self-evaluations into question. Judging by the results of the study, can self-evaluations be trusted? Read more »
10 mistakes that rookie IT consultants make
IT consulting is a tough, competitive field, and there are ample opportunities to mishandle the job. This article offers some cautionary advice for IT consultants who are just starting out. Read more »
Five job search tips for discouraged job seekers
Few things are as discouraging as a long, seemingly futile search for a job. Nothing quite drags the self-esteem down than the long silence after you’ve sent out a resume. Read more »
10 ways to train your boss to give you the support you need
If your boss routinely ignores you, withholds praise, or offers little direction or feedback, you might need to take action. See how you can get your boss on the right track. Read more »
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Google gets Bing'd
The Ratbags ambush Google employees and offer them a free search with Microsoft's Bing. Read more »
Google feeling the pinch?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's financial future according to one analyst. Diaz also discusses what the outlook may mean for the company's employees and its competitors. Read more »
The Sun sets for 6,000 employees
Sun Microsystems is the latest tech giant to announce dismal numbers for the fourth quarter and the need to layoff a significant portion of its workforce. On this Daily Debrief, CNET's Kara Tsuboi and Dawn Kawamoto discuss the 6,000 expected layoffs and possible next steps for this Silicon Valley institution. Read more »
Ivar Jacobson, Bill Gates and the weekly poultry -- Club Builder
On this week's Club Builder: Ivar Jacobson talks about what he dislikes with the software industry, Bill Gates returns, and blackmailing a former employee wins a researcher some poultry. Read more »
Hyperconnectivity -- REMIX08 Keynote
Mark Pesce, Futurist and Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, delivers the keynote for REMIX08 and says that thanks to services such as Twitter, employees can instantly relay bad experiences outside the normal confines of the office. Read more »
NICTA's clarinet playing robot
NICTA and UNSW have collaborated to create a clarinet playing robot designed to demonstrate the versatility of embedded systems. The robot won the ARTEMIS orchestra competition in Athens. Video courtesy of NICTA. Read more »
Explaining Google's BigTable
Google uses a proprietary, high performance and scalable database called BigTable. Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, explains BigTable and how it get the best out of it with AppEngine. Read more »
Gates' tearful good-bye
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Washington. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts. Read more »
Bill Gates' greatest hits and misses
June 30 marks Gates' last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant's founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet's editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates' many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed... Read more »
Blog (30)
Microsoft creates open source foundation
-- Microsoft has created the non-profit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open source communities and software companies. Read more »
Aussies to pay more for Win 7
-- If you are looking to make some money in these troubled times, perhaps importing copies of Windows 7 could be for you. Read more »
Google App Engine gets Java support
-- Google's App Engine gets Java support, Debian users get the choice of running the operating system on both Linux and FreeBSD kernels and Pia Waugh departs from her advocacy duties. Find out more in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Microsoft's new identity tools
-- One of the topics at this year's PDC in Los Angeles was identity management. Microsoft has taken steps to ensure easier user authentication by announcing new tools for managing identities and the support for OpenID. Read more »
2Vouch refers well
-- Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... 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 »
The future remains yesterday
-- Remember when MySQL was blazingly fast and cared little for SQL standards? When MySQL regarded a view as something nice from your window and a trigger was treated as a weaponry component? Those days are set to return with a MySQL fork called Drizzle. Read more »
Google App Engine sort of getting Perl support
-- Google programmers are adding support for the Perl programming language to its App Engine service for hosting Web applications, but so far it's not really an official project. Read more »
Omnidrive: Alive and kicking?
-- Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies. Read more »
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