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Study: businesses start to embrace Windows 7

A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. Read more »

Microsoft nixes barrier to Windows 7's 'XP mode'

Although Windows 7's "XP Mode" has been a welcome feature of the new operating system, there's been a fair bit of confusion brought on by the virtualisation layer's hardware requirements. Read more »

Windows Phone forgets how to copy and paste

Although previous versions of Windows Mobile have long supported a clipboard to move content around, the Windows Phone 7 Series devices due out this year won't have that ability. Read more »

Google announces business app store for Google Apps

Google is bringing the app store concept to business cloud computing, giving software developers a store front for Google Apps customers. Read more »

IBM offshoring: Motives and consequences

Last week, the Australian Services Union said that IBM Australia was looking at sending 800 jobs offshore to low cost centres, a proposition which analysts said was likely driven by a lack of local skills, with customers to face the consequences. Read more »

Importing issues for Gmail POP users

Google encountered problems with Gmail on Thursday morning for a "significant subset" of users using POP to get messages into Gmail. Read more »

Intel claims no IP stolen in attack

Intel was targeted by a "sophisticated" attack in January, but no intellectual property was stolen and executives did not think it was linked with the attacks on Google and others that occurred around the same time. Read more »

Internet Explorer gains modicum of HTML5

Internet Explorer fans can now get a taste of the video elements in HTML5 without having to switch browsers. Read more »

Aussies wait till Xmas for Win 7 mobile?

Australians might not get their hands on a mobile phone running Windows 7 until Christmas, despite the platform having its first outing last night at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Read more »

80% of Aussies support filter

A survey commissioned by the ABC's Hungry Beast, has found that 80 per cent of respondents supported Labor's proposed filter. Read more »

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Code concepts: WCF Data Services

If you are a developer who writes a lot of web services to act as proxies to the database, you should check out .NET's WCF Data Services. Read more »

Talking smack about former employers not advisable

The author cautions those who leave their jobs (willingly or otherwise) to be careful about those farewell messages they leave behind. Read more »

Introducing Linux virtual containers with LXC

This article makes the case for using Linux Resource Containers (LXC), which provide the ability to create containers to virtualise processes or systems isolated from the host operating system. Read more »

Parse and process HTML with WebBrowser

The author describes how he used the WebBrowser control to parse HTML to extract data from it. Here are some of the issues he faced on this simple project. Read more »

10 things you shouldn't do when working with an upset customer

Nobody likes dealing with an angry user, but it comes with the tech territory. Here are a few ways to keep things from going from bad to worse. Read more »

GoogleSharing: A way to prevent tracking by Google

A security expert has developed an innovative Firefox add-on that prevents Google from tracking your whereabouts on the internet. Read more »

Don't make assumptions about co-workers based on their behaviour

There are a lot of things you can control at your workplace, but a fellow employee is not one of them. Read more »

10 Google Chrome extensions worth checking out

Improve your Chrome browsing experience by adding extensions that provide custom functionality. Read more »

SpringSource talks about Java's past and future

SpringSource's general manager Rod Johnson speaks about trends in the Java world and what he sees on the horizon for Java and SpringSource. Read more »

10 things you should never do on a consulting job

There are plenty of ways to shoot yourself in the foot when you're out on a job. This article lists a few of the worst offences. Read more »

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Chrome in IE

[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 »

Microsoft creates open source foundation

[blogs:betaliving] -- Microsoft has created the non-profit CodePlex Foundation to target increased communication between open source communities and software companies. Read more »

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Oracle buys Sun

[blogs:syslog] -- In this week's edition of Roundup: Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems, Ubuntu 9.04 gets released and Microsoft shows off new Windows 7 security features. Read more »

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Opera Mini 4.2 shakes off its Android beta

[blogs:syslog] -- The final release of Opera Mini 4.2 for Google Android adds regular features of the Java browser that were disabled in its November beta version. Read more »

Bridging the gap between programmers and the vision

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- A successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »

Azure: A matter of trust

[blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Ray Ozzie hit the nail on the head when he said Azure's success will hinge on trust. Who outside (and inside) the core circle of ISV trust Microsoft? Read more »

Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone

[blogs:syslog] -- 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 »

Tech layoffs: The scorecard

[blogs:syslog] -- With the overall economy slumping, the tech industry is taking its fair share of hits. We'll keep updating the chart below as news of company changes comes in. Read more »

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Fennec: Firefox for Mobile reaches alpha

[blogs:syslog] -- Mozilla has released Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, to users of the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet. We take a look at the features of Fennec. Read more »

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Spellr.us needs a new dictionary

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- One of the only Australian start-ups to present at the recent round of conferences in the US was Sydney-based spellr.us, which has launched a Web-based tool to check and monitor websites for spelling mistakes. Read more »

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LCA Open Day

Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »

Gnome 2.16 Preview

With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »

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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview

This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »

-- posted by Staff
IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

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 »

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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 »

-- posted by Staff