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Intel launches broad reorganisation

Intel on Monday announced a company reorganisation that will create five new divisions, including two to focus on technologies in digital health care and its distribution channel. Read more »

Five years of Ballmer--the effect on Microsoft

In the five years since Bill Gates surprised the technology world by announcing he would give up his title as chief executive at Microsoft, has the company changed? Read more »

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The problem with US patents

Commentary-- Many patented ideas required little more than half a brain, five minutes of uninterrupted privacy, a napkin, and a pen for scribbling. We need some changes. Read more »

Totally RAD: we road test five IDEs

Builder AU technical editor, David McAmis gets down and dirty with the most popular IDE's to see how they they stack up as Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. Read more »

You've been hacked: What to do in the first five minutes

There's nothing quite like the mix of fear and adrenaline you get when you realise your system has been hacked. Here's how to best use that rush of energy during the first five minutes. Read more »

Five questions to ask before you hire a freelancer

Outsourcing can be a great way to supplement your in-house capabilities, but you should know what you're doing when you hire a freelancer. Here are five questions that will help you choose the right one. Read more »

Five tips on managing consultants

An outside consultant can offer the expertise that makes the difference between a winning project and a loser. Before your external code guru starts cranking out lines of code, make sure your in-house staff doesn't revolt. 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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