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Google spotlights news timeline, labs work

Google, perhaps eager to counter any worries that its engine of innovation is sputtering after the down economy triggered the closure of various projects, sheds light on two new projects and on a revamped Google Labs site for bringing others to the public's attention. Read more »

Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June. Read more »

PHP 4 on death row

Version 4 of the popular Web scripting language is on borrowed time, forcing developers to the less successful version 5 Read more »

Mystery surrounds Microsoft's virtualisation flip-flop

For months, the industry has been calling on Microsoft to ease restrictions forcing customers to use only the priciest versions of Windows Vista for desktop virtualisation, which it had planned this week before changing its mind at the last minute. Read more »

Microsoft flip-flops on Vista virtualisation

Company reverses plan to expand rights to allow home versions of the operating systems to run inside virtual machines. Read more »

MS, Adobe war in blogosphere

Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »

Microsoft denies role in Birmingham Linux flop

Microsoft has insisted it did not slash its software prices to encourage Birmingham City Council to abort its Linux project. Read more »

Blue Gene/L to top its own supercomputer record

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer on Thursday and announced it's broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. Read more »

Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog

As Web logs gain in popularity, critics warn that they are increasingly becoming the Internet's new bandwidth hog. Read more »

SCO flops in DaimlerChrysler Unix lawsuit

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3 tips to improve your executive presence

One of the most frequent issues clients ask me for help with is "executive presence". It's one of those beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder issues to some extent. What works for some people is a turnoff to others. Read more »

Embed me: Career opportunities in embedded software

Writing software designed to be embedded in an appliance, phone, or some other real-world device is a growth area, but has its own set of challenges. Read more »

Seven deadly excuses for poor design

Some companies look at customer satisfaction to determine their success while other unwittingly reward their staff for products that don't meet the needs of end users. Read more »

Open source, shared source or secret sauce?

When Microsoft shared its code, only a few people wanted to look. Were the open-source people wrong all along? Read more »

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    This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

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    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

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