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IBM teams up with Google over gadgets

IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks. Read more »

IBM joins the 'cloud computing' bandwagon

IBM on Monday launched a major initiative into 'cloud computing', a current term for internet-based services, in an effort it hopes will challenge the early lead of cloud pioneers such as Amazon and Google. Read more »

iFrame attacks: Blame your Web admin guy

With one new Web site compromised every 14 seconds, including some of the biggest names, it's almost impossible to tell what's a "trustworthy" Web site. But who's at fault for exposing Internet users? Read more »

GPL3 welcomed by IBM, Red Hat, Novell, MySQL

Sixteen years after releasing GPL2, Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation launched GPL3 over the weekend. Read more »

Google joins open-source patent network

Membership in Open Invention Network will see it agree to cross-license open source-related patents to other members for free. Read more »

IBM's 'Marvel' to scour Net for video, audio

IBM is devising Internet search technology that could let future generations archive important news footage, or just retrieve old scenes from "Flipper." Read more »

Web 2.0 vulnerable to cookie theft and 0days inside security products

Robert Graham of Errata Security today showed how reverse engineering your security application can uncover a treasure trove of 0days vulnerabilities. Read more »

Do browsers need a 'best-before' date?

Security researchers have suggested that like food, browsers should have a best-before or expiry date. This comes after revealing that 637 million internet users are surfing with outdated and unpatched browsers, which puts them at risk from Web-based attacks. Read more »

Interview: Red Hat's new CEO

Red Hat's new chief executive officer, Jim Whitehurst, talks about the Linux maker in an extensive interview with ZDNet Australia sister site CNet News. Read more »

Microsoft's OOXML 'choice' argument squashed

Microsoft claims that Australia will benefit from "greater choice" if local standards bodies vote this week to accept the Office Open XML format as an ISO standard. Read more »

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What if? an alternative history of tech

Michael Kanellos imagines a world where Apple licenced the Mac and wrestling is a corporate sport. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

It's time to start Web services planning

Will 2003 be the "Year of the Web services" and should savvy tech leaders start constructing their Web services road map today? Read more »

Web 2.0 meets the enterprise

Long set up like a gated community, the enterprise software industry is quickly gaining a populist streak. Read more »

Are open source databases for real?

Free and open-source software is making a splash in the world of databases. But is it reliable enough for your critical applications? Read more »

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Linux.conf.au hits top gear

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- The public holidays and mini-conferences are over -- it was time for linux.conf.au to move into the schedule proper. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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