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Silverlight ready to Moonlight on Linux

Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight - a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs. Read more »

Microsoft ready for Silverlight's second act

Microsoft on Monday announced that it is ready with a final version of Silverlight 2. Read more »

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Twitter lets staff "trigger nuclear option" on bosses

Mark Pesce, Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney, says that the days of bosses' bad office behaviour are well and truly numbered. Read more »

Adobe opens up Flash, ditches licensing fees

Adobe is aiming for greater use of its Flash Player multimedia Web software within mobile and other non-PC devices by launching its Open Screen Project — an industry alliance it hopes will garner the support of large vendors in the embedded multimedia space. Read more »

Can bundling help Silverlight trash Flash?

When Microsoft's Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight, he is usually having one of two types of conversations. Read more »

Nokia switches on Microsoft's Silverlight

Content developed for the software giant's alternative to Adobe's Flash will be able to be viewed on Nokia smartphones. Read more »

Media companies 'must embrace Web 2.0'

Media companies who ignore user contribution will come unstuck as Web 2.0 changes the technology and media landscape, warned experts on Wednesday at an event on the future of the Web. Read more »

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Olympics are a boon for Silverlight

Here's the way things work at Microsoft. After correcting shortcomings in the first and second editions of its software, version 3.0 of a Microsoft product usually silences the company's worst critics, allowing management to get on with business of crushing rivals. But I'll be first to acknowledge that Silverlight breaks with that pattern. Read more »

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Spry Interrogation

Greg Rewis, Senior Evangelist for Web Tools at Adobe, discusses their designer centric Ajax framework Spry. Read more »

'Electric Slide' on slippery DMCA slope

The inventor of the "Electric Slide," an iconic dance created in 1976, is fighting back against what he believes are copyright violations and, more importantly, examples of bad dancing. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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