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Google Mobile for iPhone breaks App Store rules

Google Mobile lets you search the Web using your voice in a way that is technically off-limits to iPhone developers, according to a report. Read more »

Yang's departure could open Microsoft door

Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo opens the door wide for another Microsoft offer, analysts and shareholders said this week. Read more »

Google launches limited API support for OpenID

On Wednesday Google formally announced its support as a provider for the OpenID 2.0 protocol, offering some site owners a way to let users log-in and register for new accounts using existing Google account information. Read more »

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App stores shift power balance in mobile market

New mobile app stores launched by Apple, Google, and Research In Motion could shift the balance of power in the mobile market away from wireless operators and toward device and platform developers. Read more »

Coders win from Android Market

Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system. Read more »

Seinfeld and Gates hit the road for Vista

Those left scratching their heads after Microsoft's first new ad may find themselves just as itchy after the follow-up spot. Read more »

Google's Android gets app market

Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system. Read more »

Google co-founder books trip to outer space

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put down a US$5 million deposit to book a flight into space with the space tourism company Space Adventures. Read more »

Google stews over new Microsoft offer

Google's top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft's new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google's potential ad deal with Yahoo. Read more »

Sydney's free Wi-Fi plans scrapped

The NSW government has scrapped plans to offer free Wi-Fi in Sydney, citing spiralling costs and overseas failures for killing the project. Read more »

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Facebook left friendless by Google MySpace deal

Facebook's lack of involvement in Google's new OpenSocial developer initiative has left it out in the cold while big competitors like MySpace, Bebo and Friendster jump onboard. Read more »

Will search keep Google on the throne?

Unlike rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, Google is focused on core search and thus will be the main infrastructure provider for Web services and information going forward. Read more »

Faster XML ahead?

The Net's top standards body is getting closer to speeding up XML-based software, a move that could benefit everyone from mobile phone carriers to television broadcasters to the military. Read more »

How the Mac was born, and other tales

Steve Jobs will be the star attraction when the Macworld Conference and Expo opens to the public Tuesday, but many Mac fans might be just as interested in hearing from one of the original Mac's creators. Read more »

Sprucing up open source's GPL foundation

Modernisation is coming to the General Public License, a legal framework that supports a large part of the free and open-source software movements and that has received sharp criticism from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. Read more »

IBM's service science

For years, IBM has been one of the world's leading research bodies when it comes to semiconductors, databases, electron microscopes and other "hard" sciences. Now, Big Blue is getting into social sciences. Read more »

Who says standards are sacred?

The latest Java dispute opens the window on a little-discussed truth: Standardisation usually favors bigger companies. And many companies are much better off without them. Read more »

UNIX programming and open source Q&A

Eric Raymond's upcoming book on UNIX Programming discusses the principles that guide UNIX development. Find out what his thoughts are on the state of UNIX programming and other issues that face the open source community. Read more »

Inside the open-source development model

Programmers contribute to free software and open source projects for many reasons. In this article we take a closer look into the development models of three open source projects. Read more »

Study: Open source produces best results

A consulting group has found that a key networking component of Linux is of higher quality in several ways than that of competing closed-source software. Read more »

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Is Google sharing your information with US govt?

Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday admitted that the US government has made "requests" for the search giant to share information about its users – and he said Google would comply if the requests were legal. Read more »

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Looking forward to IIS7

We caught up with Eric Deily and Eric Woersching to discuss the new modular IIS7 and the features that developers can look forward to. Read more »

Blog (6)

The best news Linux could ever receive: LinuxWorld's a bust

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The latest proof that Linux has conquered the corporate data center crowd: LinuxWorld is a dud. Read more »

Schmidt happens in Sydney

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The scene was set: harbour views from the Sydney Opera House and Eric Schmidt , the Chairman and CEO of Google, was about to front the throng of media assembled. Read more »

Is public domain software open-source?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When writing earlier this week about Adobe's sponsoring of the SQLite project, I ran into a complicated issue: is software released into the public domain also open-source software? Read more »

Adobe bashes open source alternatives

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Adobe Systems has embraced open source software for some products, but its core Creative Suite line looks like it'll remain proprietary. Read more »

How Microsoft beat Linux in China and what it means for freedom, justice, and the price of software

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Thanks to some major concessions on source code and a precipitous price drop, the Chinese government has now thoroughly embraced Windows and Office, what does this mean for the world? Read more »

Digging deeper into AJAX

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Lately I've been doing some further reading into how all this AJAX technology works. Read more »

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    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 »

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    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 »

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    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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