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Net neutrality is an 'American problem'

The leaders of three of Australia's largest ISP's have declared the Net neutrality debate as solely a US problem — and further, that the nation that pioneered the internet might want to study the Australian market for clues as to how to solve the dilemma. Read more »

Google's math == FAIL!

Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number. Read more »

Microsoft to tip off partners on security flaws

Microsoft will be giving companies that sell security software and services to its customers a sneak peek at the technical details of the vulnerabilities in Microsoft software before the company releases its monthly 'Patch Tuesday' updates. Read more »

IBM breaks petaflop barrier with PS3 and AMD chips

Computing giant IBM has built a supercomputer that can operate at one petaflop — 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second — twice as fast as the world's previous fastest computer, IBM's Blue Gene. Read more »

Sun to launch first MySQL update

The next version of MySQL won't contain bugs of the past, according to Sun execs who have promised not to change the culture of the open-source database organisation that was acquired by Sun for US$1bn in January. Read more »

What's Microsoft's next move in fight for Yahoo?

After a resounding "no" on its unsolicited buyout offer for Yahoo, Redmond will either up the ante or ready a one-two punch. Read more »

Yahoo set to reject initial Microsoft bid

Yahoo's board has decided Microsoft's $31-per-share offer "massively undervalues" the company, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Yahoo is expected to formally reject Microsoft's offer, the Journal reported. Read more »

NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud

Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud. Read more »

Microsoft seals Facebook deal with US$240m stake

It's official: Microsoft will take a US$240 million equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing, valuing the company at a whopping US$15 billion. Read more »

Safari, Firefox charge towards a more colourful Web

Apple's Safari browser is able to display richer, more deeper colours than either Internet Explorer or Opera -- but Firefox is expected to catch up in the next month. Read more »

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How do I ... convert images to greyscale and sepia tone using C#?

The Microsoft .NET Framework provides developers with many different libraries that enable them to create and modify images. This article demonstrates two methods for converting an image to grayscale and sepia-tone using built-in .NET Framework functionality from C#. Read more »

Unleash the power of dynamic proxies in Java

Find out how dynamic proxies in Java work, and then learn how to create a proxy that implements a list of interfaces. Read more »

Different types of Dreamweaver CS3 layouts

At this year's WebDU conference, Stephanie Sullivan, founder and principal of W3Conversions and Adobe community expert gave a thorough presentation named "CSS Layouts & Dreamweaver CS3". Read more »

Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC

The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »

A closer look at Firefox 3 developer features

We take a closer look at some of the Firefox 3 developer features. Read more »

Programming smartcards with the Java Card platform

The Java Card is an open, interoperable platform for smartcards and secure tokens; the technology is also widely used in SIM cards (it's used in GSM mobile phones) and ATM cards. Read more »

Process images in Java with JAI

The Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API provides a professional approach to the imaging in Java. It offers many advantages to the developer through high-level programming model. Read more »

Are key performance indicators a true measure?

Some managers love to look solely at numbers when assessing performance, and key performance indicators are right up their street. But how useful are they in the context of software development? Read more »

Generating functions rather than lists in Python

There are situations where list comprehensions are useful, but also situations where you're better served by using some other form. In this article we'll take an example of where a function factory is the better choice. Read more »

Kicking off with Ruby

What is Ruby and why is it useful? This article will touch on the history and features of the Ruby language, and some of the reasons you might want to have a deeper look at Ruby. Read more »

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Widgets - Revenge of the shiny things

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- In a world without widgets, would you start up separate applications for the weather, a dictionary, a screen ruler, a gmail peeker and an app that checks your favourite web comic everytime your machine boots up? Read more »

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  • Staff Microsoft prescribes more REST

    Details have begun to emerge about the next versions of Visual Studio and Windows Server this week -- and the message from Redmond is to REST up Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Chris Duckett .NET looks to REST

    With news that REST will play a big part in the next version of the .NET Framework, it is timely to take a look at ADO.NET. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Renai LeMay Spellr.us needs a new dictionary

    One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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