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Apple iPad due in Australia in late April

Apple has announced that the iPad in both its 3G and Wi-Fi forms will go on sale in Australia in late April 2010. Read more »

Extensions return to Chrome for Mac

Google released a new version of Chrome for Mac OS X on Thursday that restores a key feature, extensions, that had been missing for weeks. Read more »

Google's Chrome 4 brings extensions to Windows

Google has released its "stable" version of Chrome 4.0, an incarnation under development for months that brings extensions to customise Chrome features and a host of technologies for more powerful web programming. Read more »

Chrome extensions site now open for uploads

Google has opened up its gallery for developers to share Chrome extensions, a step that soon should make it easier for people to customise the open-source browser. Read more »

Google set to promote Chrome extensions

Google is on the verge of launching a website to showcase its extensions to customise what its browser can do. Read more »

Google speeds up Chrome

Google has released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, adding speed improvements, HTML 5 functionality and other tweaks. Read more »

Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services

Statistically, Flock is probably not for you. This web browser, the 2.5 version of which is coming out today, is "designed to be the essential browser for the most active 25 per cent of users," Flock CEO Shawn Hardin tells me. Read more »

Time for Microsoft to fess up on Windows 7 date

With the release candidate for Windows 7 now publicly available, it's entirely reasonable for businesses and consumers to want to know when the final release will be available. Read more »

Microsoft: Lots to turn off in Windows 7

It turns out it is not just Internet Explorer that users will be able to turn off in Windows 7. Read more »

Windows 7 beta: We like it

Windows 7 will be one of Microsoft's greatest operating systems, if it fulfils the promise shown by the unofficial beta version we have been testing for the past couple of days. Read more »

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Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »

Product spotlight: Drupal Ubercart Module

The Drupal CMS platform is much more than a content management system. Drupal can be a web portal, a blog, display image galleries and even an e-commerce site. Read more »

Inside the Exchange Server Profile Analyzer

The Exchange Server Profile Analyzer is a tool that allows Exchange administrators to get a real-time look at a plethora of statistics surrounding your Exchange servers. The statistics generated by the Profile Analyzer tell the complete story behind the way that your Exchange server is used (or abused!) by your users. Read more »

Gallery: Installing and using mono on Ubuntu

A lot of people aren't aware that you can combine Microsoft's .NET Framework with the Linux operating system by using the Open Source mono project. This article will get you started on installing mono and running basic .NET applications on Linux. Read more »

Transform plain text files into Web pages automatically with this PHP script

Learn how you can use PHP to quickly transform plain ASCII text into perfectly readable HTML markup. Read more »

Windows Vista RC1 reviewed

Windows Vista RC1 (build 5564) should mark the final stretch for Microsoft's new operating system, but don't be surprised if Microsoft issues one more public release candidate before making Windows Vista final. Read more »

What's new in Windows Vista?

Don't want to take Windows Vista for a test drive until you know what it has to offer? Join Windows expert Deb Shinder for a visual tour of Beta 2 as she points out some of the more dramatic changes and shares her impressions of the new OS. Read more »

Fedora Core 5 Image Gallery

This image gallery walks through the Fedora Core 5 installation. Read more »

Mac OS X on x86 tested

Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple's latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. Read more »

Create a dynamic photo gallery with PHP

Automatically organise your digital photography by taking advantage of your cameras built-in metadata and PHP's EXIF functions. Read more »

Blog (21)

Microsoft Surface comes to Australia

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft Surface finally to hit Australia, Google adds Buzz to the social networking array and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Apple raises curtain on iPad

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Generating buzz this week is Apple's new tablet device -- iPad. Will Australia be getting the 3G version? Read more »

Bing Maps gets a makeover

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Microsoft has enriched Bing Maps with 3D street-view, but is it a match for Google Maps? More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »

LinkedIn platform opens up to developers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- LinkedIn opens up its platform to developers, a new W3C draft gets published, and another iPhone virus emerges. More news in the Roundup. Read more »

Chrome OS source code unveiled

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has open sourced the code of its web-based Chrome operating system. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Aussie creates iPhone virus

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- An Aussie hacker has created a worm that places a background picture of Rick Astley on jailbroken iPhones that have SSH enabled, and released its source code. More news in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Ubuntu Karmic Koala released

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, was released overnight. More of this week's news in this edition of the Roundup. Read more »

Windows 7 in the spotlight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- After months of hype, Windows 7 was finally released early yesterday morning. Read more »

Chrome in IE

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has come up with a plug-in that runs Chrome inside IE. But what's the point of having a browser inside a browser? Read more »

Google gets a Caffeine Boost

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google is experimenting with a new search algorithm, labelled Caffeine, in an effort to improve the performance of its search engine. And is Microsoft finally becoming interested in web standards? Read more »

Others (2)

Gallery: Jamming it with Web 2.0

"So what is WebJam?" the girl at the bar serving my mate and I a beer asked. She's thinking that maybe there's something to do with music happening tonight, but it's nothing like that. Read more »

JavaOne: Day One Gallery

JavaOne, Sun's developer conference, began today with a series of announcements -- before that could happen though, the lines needed to be traversed. 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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