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Google Mobile for iPhone breaks App Store rules
Google Mobile lets you search the Web using your voice in a way that is technically off-limits to iPhone developers, according to a report. Read more »
Google's Gears gives laptops location smarts
Google has updated its open source Gears project so Web sites can take advantage of location services in Gears-enabled Web browsers. Read more »
First Android phone: The details
US carrier T-Mobile and Google overnight detailed the first-ever mobile handset running Google's new Android operating system. Read more »
Google defends Street View coverage
Search giant Google today defended the incomplete Australian coverage provided by its Street View add-on to its Google Maps and Earth tools, after launching the service early this morning. Read more »
Google: No such thing as complete privacy
Google's Street View service didn't invade a Pittsburgh couple's privacy, the search giant said in a response to the couple's April lawsuit over the matter. Read more »
When worlds collide: Microsoft funds Apache
Microsoft, one of the biggest rivals to open source programming, has begun funding the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of open source software's biggest supporters. Read more »
Firefox 3: New front in the browser war
Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »
Google's changes rely on guinea pig users
Google is using users as crash test dummies to measure exactly what changes it should make to its main search website — both to its famously Spartan search box and to the results it produces. Read more »
Browser faceoff: IE vs Firefox vs Opera vs Safari
Web 2.0, with its complex sites and rich Ajax applications, is an increasingly demanding platform for a browser. In this review feature, we look at how the leading browsers measure up. Read more »
Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser
A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »
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Why Chrome will win and why it will lose
Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of Chrome. We spoke to industry experts and Google's new rivals to find out why Chrome matters and whether the browser reality can deliver on the hype. Read more »
Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »
Location-based publishing and services
Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »
What is cross-site scripting?
Cross-site scripting, also known as "XSS," is a class of security exploit that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the last few years. This article explains what it is and where the dangers lie. Read more »
Setting up a simple Web service using Java
Web services form the basis for machine interoperability over a network. This guide aims to provide an insight into quickly setting up and deploying a simple Web service using Java, Eclipse, Apache Tomcat and Axis2. Read more »
The future of mashups
While at Web Directions South we took the opportunity to talk to Adrian Holovaty, creator of the Django framework and founder of EveryBlock, and asked him where he saw the mashup trend heading. Read more »
MAX 2006 Report
Max 2006 was staged in Las Vegas on 23rd - 26th October, Andrew Muller was there for Builder AU. Read more »
Build a carousel with JavaScript
Next time you are thinking about using Flash, perhaps you should consider Javascript to build a carousel. Read more »
Microformats and Mapping
We begin by looking at what a microformat is and how they are useful, then progress to introducing the Google Maps API and finally putting it all together to produce the user group map Read more »
Make the most of AJAX
AJAX has changed the way Web apps are developed and used. It allows for interactive Web pages and is on the cutting edge of current web trends. Read more »
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Using Google Maps with Flash
Mickey Kataria, product manager, Google Australia discusses a new feature in Google Maps that allows Flex developers to incorporate their API. Read more »
Undead Applets -- Club Builder
Applets are back from the dead, but do we want them? This week's Club Builder also looks at which pieces of software are utter vapour. Read more »
Blog (14)
Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone
-- Google already has customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read more »
Startup Camp Sydney: The review
-- Three new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »
Introducing the new "nerd whistle"
-- Certainly the iPhone 3G has changed a lot about how we think of our mobile devices, but I guess I never thought we would discover the ultimate geek magnet -- the nerd whistle of all App Store apps -- the Phonesaber. Read more »
Schmidt happens in Sydney
-- The scene was set: harbour views from the Sydney Opera House and Eric Schmidt , the Chairman and CEO of Google, was about to front the throng of media assembled. Read more »
Hypervisor price tag: 500 million dollars!
-- In this week's roundup we look at Citrix's purchase of XenSource, whether Sharepoint is Microsoft's new platform for lock-in, as well as a plethora of Google news. Read more »
iPhone Web development guide released
-- Apple has released it's Web development guide for iPhone. Is your Web application Safari compatible? Read more »
Google Developer Day comes to Sydney
-- Lock in May 31st for learning about everything that is Google. Read more »
Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled
-- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »
Mercantile Mashups
-- Making mashups for a living is a web developers dream - it may be closer than you think. Read more »
Geocode your photos
-- Flickr added geocoding to their photo sharing service this week, leveraging the mapping services of parent Yahoo!. After finding a location by either searching or navigating a map, users drag a photograph onto it's map location from within the online Organizr tool that Flickr provides free of charge. Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending 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 »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.