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Your new Facebook friends: The police?

Last week, the UK's Greater Manchester Police launched a Facebook application — much to the consternation of privacy advocates. Read more »

Gender gap not crossed in IT pay

The pay gap between male and female tech professionals has narrowed but striking differences remain, according to the latest UK government research. Read more »

Open source Aussies: Not poor, bearded loners

Typical Australian open source developers are 26 years old and spend their days being bored in Canberra. Despite that, free software enthusiasts have more sex and earn more money than you might expect, a new survey reveals. Read more »

Gender diversity at all costs: Microsoft Australia MD

Microsoft Australia has implemented a "diversity council" to ensure it attracts and retains quality female staff. Read more »

Wired but not Web 2.0? That's normal, study says

Although most U.S. adults have a cell phone, a computer and Internet access, a study says only a small percentage are participating in Web 2.0 activities. Read more »

Women flock to Linux talkfest

Female registrations have hit an all time high for Linux.conf.au Read more »

Discrimination common for IT applicants: survey

Age and sex discrimination are common among IT employers when evaluating job applicants, according to a survey of industry professionals. Read more »

Microsoft demos advertising lab

Microsoft on Friday debuted its AdCenter Incubation Lab, providing a peek at some of the ad-based technologies the lab is cooking up. Read more »

Amazon patents gender stereotyping

Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filing on Tuesday. Read more »

Debian group encourages female developers

The number of female developers working on Debian is set to rise in the next few months thanks to the work of Debian Women. Read more »

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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 »

Usability skills for every developer

It's easy to get lost in creating clean, efficient code and forget why you're writing it in the first place. Here's how you avoid falling into the trap of forgetting usability. Read more »

Beyond the barriers: What women want in IT

Is it time to accept that females lack IT or is lack of support and enduring stereotypes keeping women away? Ella Morton investigates. Read more »

Persist data with the XMLSerializer class

In this .NET "how-to" from Tony Patton, learn how to convert an object's public properties and fields to XML. Read more »

Q&A: Steve Mann

Professor Steve Mann just may be the world's first cyborg rights activist. It is a future, he says, that is no longer the exclusive preserve of science fiction. Read more »

Breaking the gender code: Builder talks to DataGrid girl

Marcie Robillard, a.k.a. DataGrid girl, tells Builder AU why more women should be cutting code but why most leave the industry. Read more »

Tech.Ed Australia 2003

Microsoft's Tech.ED 2003 technical conference runs in Brisbane this year from August 10-13. Builder AU will cover the event live in this special report. Read more »

Take aim at taming these 10 types of techies

There are certain personality types you're bound to encounter among tech staff. Here are 10 types and suggestions for effectively dealing with them. Read more »

Stop team war

When an employee refuses to be a team player or always shows up late for work, your other team members will resent it--and you'll have to deal with the fallout. We offer guidance on these two issues Read more »

IBM's P3P Policy Editor

P3P is a standard that allows Web site managers to describe their Privacy and Preferences Polices in XML format. Builder.com looks at IBM's release of its P3P Policy Editor. Read more »

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Web survey confirms the obvious

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- Web Design blog A List Apart has published the results of their first annual survey of web professionals, and the results should surprise absolutely nobody. I'll take this opportunity to break down the results (Warning: statistics ahead). Read more »

Think Wiimote to engage users?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Nintendo's Wii remote control proves that bigger, faster, and louder aren't necessary to build the best experience for end-users. Read more »

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    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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