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Unveiling Apple's iPad: Live blog
After months of rumors and speculation about a slate-like device, Apple has had its say. See the train of events in this blog from the high-profile press event which kicked off in San Francisco at 10am PST — 5am Sydney time. Read more »
Jovial Ellison cracks IBM jokes
Oracle supremo Larry Ellison has taken several potshots at his company's rival IBM, denigrating the power efficiency of Big Blue's hardware and opening fire on its blanket "Smarter Planet" marketing campaign. Read more »
Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion
Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share. Read more »
Macworld 2009: Complete wrap-up
Phil Schiller takes the stage at Macworld 09, revealing Apple's new line up. While the rumours were mostly right, the lack of a new Mac Mini will be a sticking point for a lot of people. Read more »
Apple's Jobs confirms health problems
Apple has admitted that chief executive Steve Jobs is skipping Tuesday's Macworld keynote for health-related reasons, after initially pointing to other reasons for his absence. Read more »
Google peeps get Android phone for Xmas
Google Australia employees — and those in many other countries — received an HTC Dream Android phone for Christmas. Read more »
Berners-Lee opens doors to 'Web for all' foundation
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee on Sunday unveiled the World Wide Web Foundation, an initiative to spread the Web to developing countries and maintain its openness. Read more »
Creating a 'Facebook for spies'
One might expect James Bond's MySpace page to list shaken martinis, Walther PPKs, and Aston Martins among his interests. Read more »
Intel unveils developer tools for multicore apps
As Intel prepares for multiple cores in every machine, it is bringing new tools to the table for software developers. Read more »
DNS disaster: first attacks reported
The first attacks that are likely to have stemmed from a serious Domain Name System flaw have been reported. Read more »
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Code concepts: .NET's lambdas
This article provides an overview of what lambdas in .NET are and explains how to use them. Read more »
Students give Microsoft a workout
Over the past half year 300,000 students from around the world have been coding away using Microsoft technology to prepare their entries in the annual Imagine Cup contest. This week 440 of them gathered in Cairo to battle it out in various categories relating to software development and visual media. Read more »
The current state and future of C++
Justin James thinks there is still great potential for C++ developers to do quite nicely for themselves. Read more »
Familiarity can breed contempt among co-workers
If familiarity breeds contempt, then the modern workplace is a veritable petri dish for derision. Since many of us spend most of our days in the company of co-workers, how can we resist the urge to let everything about them irritate us? Read more »
10+ things you should know about rootkits
Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. Read more »
UML needs fixing claims founder
One of the creators of the Unified Modeling Language, Ivar Jacobson, claims the technology has become too big and needs to be simplified. Read more »
Ivar Jacobson: Developers are too fashionable
One of the fathers of software development processes says the industry is too fashionable, needs to stop re-inventing the wheel, and focus on being more creative. Read more »
Multi-core state of play
It promises to be the biggest revolution in programming since object orientation -- but it remains virtually unheard of to most developers. Thanks to the development and uptake of multi-core CPUs, developers must begin to consider truly programming in parallel. Read more »
The 10 most dangerous species of IT team leader
There are many competent and sociable team leaders in IT departments; but they don't make for great storytelling. Picking the worst and most dangerous types can help us recognise the signs and maybe even glean a little entertainment from them. 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 »
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Gosling: How Java handles multi-core
James Gosling, the man behind Java, speaks of the benefits of the Java VM (HotSpot) and how it can deal with multi-core environments Read more »
Intel unveils new software for parallel computing
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, company General Manager Renee James announces a new suite of parallel coding tools designed to work with Microsoft Visual Studio. The tools will support Microsoft's concurrent runtime environment, which is expected to become a central component of Microsoft's next-generation computing model. The... Read more »
Exploring Mars with Java
At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Friday, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and fellow, talks to Arizona State University geological sciences professor Phil Christensen about the school's geospatial software, JMARS. The open-source project is available to the public and used by NASA to find and gather scientific data... Read more »
Gosling: New Nimbus tool
James Gosling talks about a new Nimbus tool that might be released. Read more »
Why Java picked Mercurial for source control
James Gosling explains why the OpenJDK project choose Mercurial for its source control Read more »
Gosling: Realtime Java
James Gosling explains realtime Java and dismisses the perception that realtime means real fast. Read more »
Gosling: Java's memory performance comparable to C
James Gosling explains how Java's memory performance competes with using malloc and free for memory management Read more »
Gosling, the ATO and useless stats -- Club Builder
This week on Club Builder: James Gosling tells us why Emacs sucks, the ATO feels uncomfortable with using open source and who's to blame for IFRAME attacks? Read more »
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NICTA: Aussies should focus on embedded programming not VB
-- The CEO of the national ICT research centre says the future of Aussie developers should focus on building better embedded and wireless applications and focus less on technologies such as Visual Basic. Read more »
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
-- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
Drop in on Builder AU at Open CeBiT 2008
-- Got a question on open source you need answered? Need a way to help convince your boss that open source is the way to go? Or just curious to learn what all the fuss is about?
Then drop in to the Builder AU Open Source Afternoon on Wednesday May 21. Read more »
Quote of the year (so far)
-- Hats off to James Gosling for this corker about developers who insist on using Emacs for their developer needs in the face of better tools. Read more »
Introducing IE8: The Ocho
-- Over in Las Vegas the MIX conference is underway and that means only one thing: Microsoft announcements and plenty of them. Read more »
Digging deeper into AJAX
-- Lately I've been doing some further reading into how all this AJAX technology works. Read more »
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JavaOne: Day One Gallery
JavaOne, Sun's developer conference, began today with a series of announcements -- before that could happen though, the lines needed to be traversed. 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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Google launches Apps MarketplaceGoogle 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 »
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