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Is Microsoft a nicer place to work than Google?

Google pays less than Microsoft, uses tricks to get longer hours out of its employees and 'forgets' about 20 percent projects, according to a former Google employee who joined the search giant as part of its Phatbits acquisition. Read more »

Techies take shares over salary in Web 2.0 world

The majority of people looking to work for Web 2.0 startup companies are prepared to sacrifice pay in exchange for shares in the venture they're joining. Read more »

Open-source leader leaving Novell for Google

Jeremy Allison, a high-profile open-source programmer, has resigned from Novell because of objections over its patent deal with Microsoft and is moving to Google. Read more »

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Wooing interns to Silicon Valley

Students working at companies like Google enjoy lots of perks and hands-on training. But a stint at Microsoft gets you a date with Bill Gates. Read more »

Five ways to make meetings bearable

More annoying than even junk mail is the dreaded Outlook meeting invite. Find out how to make meetings more bearable. Read more »

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Take off your suit pants and jacket -- It's Web 2.0

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- With the shortage of talented IT staff on hand the smell of dot-com culture has made a comeback. Welcome to Web 2.0 work culture , the future of yesterday. 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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