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Google simplifies leaving Exchange

Google's assault on Microsoft's enterprise software business has continued to advance as the search giant released a new tool that helps companies move away from Exchange. Read more »

Microsoft IE9 preview released

Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a prototype that's designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the web as it exists today and support for new web technologies that are coming right now. Read more »

Web guru Tim Bray takes Google Android job

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML, notable tech blogger and until recently a Sun Microsystems employee, has joined Google's Android team in part to show the world what he thinks is wrong with Apple's iPhone. Read more »

New OpenGL 4.0 aims to match DirectX 11

Aiming to keep pace with Microsoft and advance the computing frontier, the group behind OpenGL has announced a new version of its interface designed to make advanced graphics easier for programmers to handle. Read more »

McAfee blog enabled IE exploit

An Israeli security researcher has published exploit code for an unpatched hole in Internet Explorer that Microsoft disclosed two days ago, using clues from a McAfee report on the hole. Read more »

Mozilla refreshes its open-source backbone

Ten years on, Mozilla has concluded that its open-source underpinnings are due for a refresh. Read more »

Android coders get high-speed graphics ability

Want better games on your Android phone? They may be coming sooner now, at least for Android 2.0 models. Read more »

Microsoft IE7's zero-day hole

Microsoft warned of a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that has been targeted in attacks, and released fixes for eight holes in Windows and Office as part of Patch Tuesday. Read more »

Microsoft warns of Win XP security hole

Microsoft warned of a new zero-day hole that could be exploited by attackers to take control of older Windows systems running Internet Explorer and for which proof-of-concept exploit code has been released publicly. Read more »

Elements of Firefox overhaul arrive for testing

Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox. Read more »

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IBM hopes to upend industry standard server ROI equation

IBM introduced a new class of industry standard servers that it hopes will widen its market share lead and put rivals like HP and Dell on defence. Read more »

10 ways to avoid mistakes during project development

The best strategy for dealing with mistakes is to avoid making them in the first place. Here are some tips to help you navigate around common project pitfalls. 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 »

Think hard before talking about clients on the web

IT consultants often find that social media provides a great way to build their reputation and their contacts in the industry. However, you have to be careful about what you share out on the wide open web to avoid damaging your clients or your relationship with them. Read more »

Review of dotTrace 3.1 performance profiling tool

If you're looking for an alternative to the Visual Studio profiler, give the dotTrace 3.1 performance tool a look. Read more »

Book review: Teach yourself Drupal with this text

Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours makes learning Drupal easy for even non-programmers. Read more »

Three storage features eliminated from Exchange 2010

Exchange 2010 eliminates several staples from the Exchange diet and for good reason. Learn which three major storage-related features didn't make the Exchange 2010 cut. 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 »

10 open source headlines we'd like to see in 2010

At the beginning of a bright, shiny new year, a lot of things seem possible -- or at least worth imagining. Here are a few fantasy headlines. Read more »

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How developers should ask for help

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ASCII, .Net Naming and the ATO -- Club Builder

This week's Club Builder looks at fixing .NET's versioning problems, how ASCII art can help remembering SSH keys, and how the ATO intends to let people running OS X or Linux file tax returns. Read more »

Dalvik -- the Android VM

How does Dalvik, the virtual machine inside Android, help performance? Dan Morrill, developer advocate at Google, gives a quick overview of bytecode VM. Read more »

Helping in the Moonlight

Michael Kordahi and Shane Morris discuss the status of the Moonlight project, an effort to bring Silverlight to Linux. Read more »

Vista's annoyance was planned?!!? -- Club Builder

We shouldn't be surprised that Vista's security prompts were designed to be annoying. We also look at the new security paradigm and how playing dumb can help defend piracy. Read more »

Gates vs Woz Deathmatch -- Club Builder

Google says AFL is harmful, Ballmer talks about "stuff" and you decide whether cheap computers help the world's poor in this week's Club Builder. Read more »

Talking blogs with Frank Arrigo

Frank Arrigo is one of Australia's most popular bloggers. We ask him to explain the secret of his success and gain some helpful steps for beginning a blog. Read more »

Microsoft battles to win over 'sceptical' designers

Microsoft is far better known for its relationship with developers than with designers but as the software giant begins to step on Adobe's toes with its design tools, it has started hiring "user design evangelists" to help spread the word -- both to the design community as well as within it’s own campus. One of the first designers to be recruited into this new role was Shane Morris, who joined Microsoft at the start of 2007. Read more »

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Ubuntu Karmic Koala released

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, was released overnight. More of this week's news in this edition of the Roundup. Read more »

Windows 7 in the spotlight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- After months of hype, Windows 7 was finally released early yesterday morning. Read more »

Hackers attack government websites

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- A hackers' alliance staged a denial-of-service attack on websites of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and ACMA on Wednesday night. Read more of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

Mobile devices get app virtualisation

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- At its annual conference in San Francisco, VMware announced plans to bring virtualisation to smartphones, which will allow users to run applications including those that are designed for different platforms. Read more »

Chrome gets bookmark sync with version 4.x

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google has issued the first developer preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, a phase that should bring some advanced features in the forthcoming HTML 5 specification for web pages but that for now just sports a cloud-based bookmark synchronisation tool. Read more »

Google launches Chrome theme gallery

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google on Tuesday launched a gallery of 29 themes for Google Chrome (requires Google Chrome 3.0 beta for Windows). But Mozilla, while refraining from sniggering, boasted it's now up to 20,000. Read more »

Browsers and operating systems

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google is planning to enter the operating system market with Chrome OS, meanwhile Microsoft believes that the browser should start acting more like an operating system. Read more »

iPhone OS 3.0 makes an entrance

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- iiPhone OS 3.0 and Firefox 3.5 release candidate get launched this week. More in this week's Roundup. Read more »

Yahoo's Outlook alternative: Zimbra Desktop

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you could collect your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, and corporate messages into a single in-box, would you switch? Read more »

Open Facebook

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The Weekly Roundup covers Facebook's Open Stream API, the release of Firefox 3.5 beta, news about Windows 7 release candidate and more. Read more »

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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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    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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