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Will Google Buzz be Wave's demise?

If Google Wave eventually fails to live up to the promise and hype that accompanied its launch, consider its demise an inside job. 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 »

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 »

Facebook patents social feeds

Facebook has been awarded a patent pertaining to streaming "feed" technology, more specifically "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network". Read more »

Google stingy on malware handout?

To entice security researchers to look for holes in the Chrome browser, Google has announced it will pay US$500 for bugs found in the code. But several experts have said that's not enough money to motivate skilled vulnerability researchers. 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 »

Why Facebook's HipHop for PHP is important

Facebook formally announced a long-rumoured project it has been working on called HipHop for PHP. Read more »

Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas

Who could resist the months of hype that paved the way for Apple's iPad debut last week? Apparently not Google, which has shown its interest in tablet computing with its browser-based Chrome OS. Read more »

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 »

Google beefing up new 'Social Web team'

Is Google plotting to encroach upon Facebook's comfy territory? Read more »

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Giving Samba its due

Here's some healthy praise to a tool often overlooked in the accolade department. Can you think of a tool more deserving of open-source love than Samba? Read more »

The lost art of paying attention

People want their information the fastest way they can get it. Should we learn to reshape the way we communicate? Read more »

A look at ColdFusion 9's new features

This article looks at some of the best features in ColdFusion 9 and discusses why the application server is still compelling. 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 »

10 open source Windows apps worth checking out

The open source community has a lot to offer, and not just to Linux users. These 10 outstanding Windows tools can make your life easier (for free). Read more »

When to use mount points for Windows servers

Windows mount points are a common practice in the Exchange world, yet are sometimes misunderstood elsewhere. Here are a few more use cases for mount points. Read more »

Windows Server 2008 R2 changes for core installation

This article outlines the new features in the core installation of Windows Server 2008 R2 and discusses which components were removed. 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 »

Preparing for Exchange Server 2010's hardware and software requirements

Exchange 2010 is out and about and ready to deploy. This article provides you with some assistance on getting prepared for this latest release in the Exchange line. Read more »

10 questions to ask when selecting open source products for your enterprise

To make sure you realise all the benefits of open source, run these simple background checks on an open source project. Read more »

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Behind the scenes at Tech.Ed

ZDNet.com.au took a tour backstage to see the hardware needed to run a large conference. Read more »

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IT challenges at Lucasfilm

At the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Lucasfilm's director of IT operations, Kevin Clark, spoke about the difficulties in networking and providing data storage for their large collection of companies--including locations in Singapore and the remote Marin Headlands. He discusses how they managed to move to a new... Read more »

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Mobile takes center stage at LinuxWorld

ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about one of the big themes at this year's LinuxWorld Expo--mobility. Diaz discusses how large companies like Motorola are encouraging Linux developers to write software for mobile devices. Read more »

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Performance and large scalable applications

Brett Slatkin, senior software engineer at Google, describes the factor that developers should think about when creating large applications that have good scalable performance. Read more »

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Is software consolidation killing innovation?

At San Francisco's Churchill Club, moderator Dave Margulius talks to panelists Douglas Merrill, vice president of engineering at Google, and CIOs David Bergen of Levi Strauss, Doug Schwinn of Hasbro and Randall Spratt of McKesson. The chief information officers debate the pros and cons of software industry consolidation and discuss whether these large mergers are beneficial or preventing innovation. Read more »

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The real-time search race

[blogs:syslog] -- Google and Yahoo deploy real-time search this week, WebGL reaches the draft stage and more. 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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Twitter brought down by DoS attack

[blogs:syslog] -- Twitter suffered an outage yesterday as a result of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, but the microblogging site has not commented further on the issue. Read more »

Google launches Chrome theme gallery

[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 »

Firefox: Greens want it, 3.5rc2 not up to par

[blogs:syslog] -- This week's roundup looks at the situation surrounding a campaign to change Outlook HTML renderer, a Greens MP wants to install Firefox but is restricted and all the photos from the iPhone 3GS launch. Read more »

Mozilla Bespin tries taking coding to the cloud

[blogs:syslog] -- Mozilla Labs on Thursday unveiled a new open-source project called Bespin, a web-based programming environment its developers hope will combine the speed and power of desktop-based development with the collaborative benefits of cloud computing. 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 »

Sneak peek at Tech.Ed 06

In this picture gallery we take a look behind the scenes at Tech.Ed 06. 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 »

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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 »

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