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Opera to show off iPhone browser despite Apple ban
Opera plans to demonstrate a version of its Mini browser for the iPhone at Mobile World Congress next week, even though Apple does not permit any other browsers on its handset. Read more »
Microsoft Surface sold in Oz next week
Microsoft will start selling its Surface tabletop multi-touch system in Australia next week after a formal launch. Read more »
Sydney Ignite 3: Videos
October 8 marked the third installment of Sydney Ignite, a night of presentations with the unique format of 20 slides shown in 5 mintues with each slide automatically changing after 15 seconds. You can now watch, in no particular order, eleven presentations from the night. Read more »
Bing to hit Australia next Wednesday
The local versions of Microsoft's latest crack at Google, a new search engine called Bing, will go live in Australia and New Zealand on Wednesday in beta form. Read more »
Windows 7 Taskbar in detail
The Start button and the Start menu are basically the same as in Vista, but Microsoft really revamped the Taskbar in the beta of Windows 7. Let's take a detailed look at the new functionality in detail. Read more »
Red Hat chief: 'Cheaper generally wins'
Red Hat's chief executive, Jim Whitehurst, has claimed his company is well placed to deal with the current economic crisis because it is a low-cost supplier. Read more »
Machine talkers fail Turing test
Artificial intelligence took a step closer to becoming a reality on Sunday as machines edged closer to passing the Turing test. Read more »
Android handset demo at Google Developer Day
Journalists and developers at the Google Developer Day event in London on Tuesday were treated to an unexpected demonstration of the upcoming Android handset. Read more »
Oracle destroyed Ellison's emails
Software maker Oracle deliberately destroyed or withheld CEO Larry Ellison's emails and failed to preserve audio recordings sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed against the software maker, a US federal judge has ruled. Read more »
DNS exploits are happening
A fatal flaw with the DNS (Domain Name System) was currently being exploited in internet attacks and more attacks were likely, the security researcher who discovered the flaw said on Thursday in the US Read more »
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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 »
Transform plain text files into Web pages automatically with this PHP script
Learn how you can use PHP to quickly transform plain ASCII text into perfectly readable HTML markup. Read more »
IBM boss spells out a better future
Forget the multinational, says IBM chief executive Sam Palmisano. "Global integration" is now the way to go for large organisations. Read more »
Do you want source with that database?
Is Microsoft slowly becoming a more open source company? Read more »
Q & A with Linus Torvalds
When Linus Torvalds successfully harnessed the talent of thousands of programmers to create Linux, the operating system that arguably suffered most was Sun Microsystems' Solaris. Read more »
What the open source industry stands for
I read Iain Ferguson's "Linux: Time to take the next step" piece recently and thought he had captured the zeitgeist of the Linux industry market well: if we were still in 1998. Read more »
How much are developers worth?
The job market for developers might be picking up slightly these days but how much are you prepared to work for as a professional developer? Read more »
Contribute to the Builder AU community
Have you ever thought, "I could do better than that" after reading an article on a developer Web site or in a magazine? If so, here's your chance to prove it. Read more »
A lesson in logic
Fundamentalists are people who can't tolerate the idea that there are legitimate points of view other than their own. Publish something negative about Linux, and you'll soon find out what I mean. Read more »
Profile: OzZope Australia
OzZope members meet monthly in Melbourne to learn about Zope, an open source Web-based application server for building content managements. Read more »
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How to be a zombie journalist - Renai LeMay
ZDNet.com.au news editor, Renai LeMay, talks about how the internet changed journalism at Sydney Ignite 3. Read more »
Blog (10)
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 »
StartupCamp comes to Melbourne
-- In early October, Melbourne will get its own version of the StartupCamp project that saw three new technology start-ups launched last weekend. Read more »
Targeted for hacking by reporters at my table
-- I should have known it was only a matter of time. I've been covering security conferences on and off for about 14 years and considered myself lucky not to have been hacked, that I knew of. Until Thursday. Read more »
10 PR 2.0 tips for startups
-- You’ve got a great product and spent much of your budget on developing your software or service and now you’re left with a marginal budget for marketing and PR. Sound familiar? Read more »
Bootstrappr comes out of stealth mode
-- bootstrappr is a new blog that will track the fortunes of Australia's technology start-up scene. We'll hang out at Barcamp and keep an eye on twitter, test out the latest and greatest from Aussie entrepreneurs, and be the first to tell you when they fall in a heap. Read more »
A new coat of varnish
-- This week featured plenty of coverage from the various conferences occurring around the country. All the while Builder's design gnomes were busy give the site a touch-up. 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 »
The Fud is Flying! (Again)
-- It seems like that the latest marketing technique for software vendors is to sling a little FUD and see if it sticks. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt make for some attention-grabbing headlines and are great for scaring potential customers away from a competitors offering. Read more »
Certification Nation
-- Is a lack of certification really a hole in a developers resume? Are certificates become part of the way of life for software developers, or are we beginning to see the light? Read more »
Live Aussie Vista Launch
-- Live Blogging from the Australian launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 at the MCA in Sydney. Read more »
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