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Google debuts Gears for Firefox 3

Gears, Google's project to make Web browsers a better foundation for elaborate online applications, now supports Firefox 3, the company plans to announce soon. Read more »

Take browsers to the limit: Google

The only way to transform the Web into the desktop platform of the future is to fully embrace bleeding edge features in browser software, the creator of Google Maps says. Read more »

Flock woos Netscape users with its social skills

With Netscape edging closer to its doomsday, the Flock browser is hoping its social networking skills will divert users from migrating to the natural alternative, Firefox. Read more »

Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client finally gets calendar

Mozilla Foundation has finally integrated the Lightning calendar to its latest incarnation of open-source e-mail client, Thunderbird 3.0. Users can also expect improved search. Read more »

With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed

Mozilla officially released Firefox 2, adding security features and a new interface. Read more »

Mozilla: we'll pay developers where we can

The not-for-profit organisation says it is looking at how to share its newfound millions with the volunteers who work on Firefox and Thunderbird. Read more »

Mozilla plans to fund developer community

The Mozilla Foundation is planning to use some of its millions of dollars in revenues to fund active members of its developer community, the organisation said on Tuesday. Read more »

Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0

A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed 'Flock', which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today. Read more »

Google reveals Android source code

A year after announcing Android, the open source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile Internet, Google has begun sharing the project's underlying source code. Read more »

Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser

A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »

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What does Google Chrome offer developers?

This article discusses Chrome's tools for working with Web pages and weighs in on whether you should ditch IE or Firefox for Chrome. Read more »

Automate and extend Firefox with the Chickenfoot add-on

Chickenfoot is a Firefox add-on that allows you to automate user actions within the browser environment. It also lets you extend the browser interface to provide additional features to a Web page. Read more »

Aussie coders changing the world

Though they may not be household names like Thorpie or Lleyton, Aussie developers rank among the world's best. Simon Sharwood profiles our top five geeks. Read more »

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Startup Camp Sydney: The review

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". 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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