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Mozilla forges ahead with Firefox 3.6

Mozilla debuted Firefox 3.6 on Thursday, introducing significant under-the-hood changes that make it faster, help it render content better and a few visual tweaks, as well. Read more »

Start-up claims Microsoft China took its code

A start-up says that a microblogging service recently launched by Microsoft in China "rips off" its user interface and also contains a huge percentage of similar code. Read more »

Google Chrome 4.0 graduates to beta status

More people will get a chance to try out bookmark synchronisation with the Monday's release of a beta version of Google Chrome for Windows. Read more »

Researchers' protocol denies DoS attacks

Researchers have devised a way to filter out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on computer networks, including cloud computing systems, to improve security on government, commercial and educational systems. Read more »

NSW Govt seeks new ID fraud laws

Tough new laws aimed at clamping down on identity fraud are being drafted by the NSW government. Read more »

Mitnick cleared after customs scare

Since being released from prison eight years ago, Kevin Mitnick's brushes with the law have consisted of a few parking tickets and a citation for driving without a front license plate - that is, until he returned from a trip to Colombia two weeks ago. Read more »

Palin's email gets hacked

Hackers have reportedly broken into US Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account and posted some of the contents on the internet. Read more »

Open source licence victory in model-railway case

A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions. Read more »

Judge halts Defcon hacking speech

A federal judge on Saturday in the US granted the Massachusetts transit authority's request for an injunction preventing three MIT students from giving a presentation about hacking smartcards used in the Boston subway system. Read more »

Indian outsourcers feeling the pinch

India's outsourcing giants suffered sluggish growth in contrast to record-breaking spending on global services in 2008. Read more »

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Firefox: Some security tips

There are several reasons why Firefox is the web browser of choice for many of us. Providing a safe web surfing experience is one of the more important ones. I'd like to offer some tips that will make surfing the web with Firefox even safer. Read more »

Google: Open source lets us control our destiny

Chris DiBona, Google's open source program manager, gave the opening keynote at the Open Source Developer's Conference. Builder AU caught up with him to discuss why Google uses open source, how the company open sources its software and what it is like to be a comic book character. Read more »

Project managers: Stop 'gathering' IT requirements

The failure to gather good requirements is the main cause of project failures. This article says that, instead of gathering requirements, project managers must negotiate requirements among the stakeholders. Read more »

Unit testing options for JavaScript

Unit testing is different from traditional testing because it is performed by the developer and not a tester. This article provides an overview of several options for unit testing client-side JavaScript code. Read more »

Support rich text with the Yahoo! User Interface Library

During a recent project, my team's task was to redesign a Web page that utilised an ActiveX control as a rich text editor. One goal of the project was to replace the ActiveX control with a more standardized approach. Read more »

CVSDude: Queensland one day, global the next

Beginning with hardware bought on eBay, Brisbane-based CVSDude now manages source code for Apple, Intel and the BBC. Read more »

Install Microsoft core TrueType fonts in Mandriva Linux

The default fonts packaged with Linux are definitely passable; however, Microsoft has some freely available TrueType fonts that make Linux look even better. Read more »

Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack

You can't thwart a DDoS attack -- they attack an IP address or service that's available to the Internet. If you can't prevent such an attack, what can you do to protect your organisation? Read more »

Conference savvy for the IT pro

Conferences may be a budget line-item you're willing to cut, but they can be a professional boon if you make the most of your opportunities. Read more »

Building on top of osCommerce

By choosing to modify an existing open source e-retailing system, Damian Hickey was able to accelerate the development process, but also took on board a score of additional problems. Read more »

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Mozilla Bespin tries taking coding to the cloud

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Mozilla Labs on Thursday unveiled a new open-source project called Bespin, a web-based programming environment its developers hope will combine the speed and power of desktop-based development with the collaborative benefits of cloud computing. Read more »

Social media: perfecting the platform to build fantasy

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- It is in the success with which future social computing hosts deliver the tools to help participants construct their online fantasy selves that will divide the space’s winners and losers. Read more »

MySpace in a hot place

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- It seems the now-mainstream MySpace is proving itself just as susceptible to predatory sexual interests as have chat rooms and all manner of other online spaces before it. 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 »

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    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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