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Mozilla's Google subsidy to last three more years
Mozilla and Google have extended a search deal through 2011, providing some financial security to the backer of the open source Firefox Web browser. Read more »
Google Code reverses open source licence ban
Google has undone an earlier ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open source projects hosted at its Google Code site. Read more »
Google's Android gets app market
Google on Thursday in the US announced Android Market, an online center similar to the iPhone application store that will let people find, buy, download, and rate software and other content for mobile phones equipped with the open source operating system. Read more »
Strike vote fuels IBM Australia debate
A potential impending strike action at one of IBM Australia's Sydney facilities has sparked debate about whether it was still worth striving to work at one of the largest and most prestigious technology firms in Australia and the world. Read more »
Ubuntu issues security patch for kernel flaw
Ubuntu today became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to find their way into users' machines. Read more »
Red Hat gets hacked
Red Hat warned on Friday that a network attack compromised some servers last week that are involved with both its commercially supported and free versions of Linux. Read more »
Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1
Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »
SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims
SCO Group has been ordered to pay a €10,000 fine in Germany for making claims that Linux includes intellectual property from Unix. Read more »
Microsoft planning IE privacy mode
For many, privacy on the Web is a concern. And for Microsoft's Internet Explorer team, privacy is a feature. Read more »
Microsoft extends Novell pact
Microsoft and Novell have extended their interoperability agreement for server operating systems. Read more »
Features (399)
JavaScript -- a Flash competitor?
Open source software has its problems when it's trying to keep up with proprietary software, but when it does what it's good at -- creating ideas and developing them very quickly in public -- it can be revolutionary. Read more »
Asia's open source hangup
One of the main draws and selling point of open source technology is its much celebrated developer ecosystem. But, according to an industry expert, this community spirit seems to be lacking in Asia. Read more »
Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »
Choose the right JDBC driver for your database interface
Picking the right driver can optimise connectivity between your Java apps and database. Read more »
Realise the flexibility of OpenSSH
OpenSSH is one of the most useful tools available. With it, you can access systems remotely and securely, transfer files securely, execute single commands on remote systems, secure normally insecure services, and much more. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
Delegate privileges to users with sudo
One of my favourite tools is sudo, a program that many users will be familiar with. Both Ubuntu and OS X popularised sudo by making efficient and default use of the program. Sudo allows regular users to perform commands as other users. Read more »
Google vs. Microsoft
At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »
Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »
Create cross-platform database-driven applications with JDBC
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API offers a unified interface to different databases, providing a series of generic functions that are internally translated into native function calls. This makes it extremely easy to create database-driven applications that work across different RDBMS types. Read more »
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Captain Obvious vs the Crackpots -- Club Builder
In the case of the bleeding obvious, IBM says open source needs good designers; a claim is made that China can activate your phone to snoop on you; and we take a look at the Defcon conference. Read more »
Suncorp CIO on open source
Suncorp CIO Jeff Smith talks about the company's plans to use open source software. Read more »
IBM: Linux in 2018?
At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM executive Bob Suter talks about what a desktop will mean in the future, saying it will focus more on mobile devices like iPhones and collaborations across platforms. He then calls for better graphics designers in the open-source world to make them easier... Read more »
LinuxWorld: Merrill Lynch on going stateless
At the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, Jeffrey Birnbaum, managing director and chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, speaks about using cloud computing to reduce the complexities and costs of financial services. He discusses the move away from dedicated machines and why old ideas like virtualization have become useful again. Read more »
Silicon Valley giants partner to shape the cloud
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks with Senior Editor Sam Diaz about a partnership between Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo to create an open-source Read more »
Honesty, WWIII and other minor annoyances -- Club Builder
On this week's Club Builder we look at some local scientists who have made a break through in fibre throughput, a group of local lads win big in Paris and we hand out our first Honesty Award. Read more »
Why Adobe open sourced Flex SDK
Mike Downey, principal evangelist at Adobe, explains why Adobe chose to open source its Flex SDK. Read more »
Microsoft ditched as Anglicans go open source
The Sydney Diocese of the Anglican Church has decided to cut the Microsoft umbilical cord by moving to open source, starting with Office which will be replaced in the next three years. Read more »
Making Android fully open
Dan Morrill, developer advocate for Google, explains which areas of Android will be open sourced in the future Read more »
What is Android anyway?
Dan Morrill, developer advocate, Google, gives the elevator summary of exactly what Android is. Read more »
Blog (90)
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 »
Share a keyboard and mouse with Synergy
-- Even in the era of virtualization, many IT pros (including myself) have a small army of computers sitting on, under, and around their desks. Read more »
Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks
-- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »
The best news Linux could ever receive: LinuxWorld's a bust
-- The latest proof that Linux has conquered the corporate data center crowd: LinuxWorld is a dud. Read more »
Software in the courts
-- In week's Roundup explores Google's assertion that privacy no longer exists, the UK-based NASA hacker loses his extradition appeal, Microsoft becomes a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation and the Australian Tax Office chooses Windows and only Windows, again, for electronic submissions. Read more »
Aussie Web design awards open
-- Looking for recognition of your team's hot design skills? The McFarlane Prize is one of Australia's most premier industry awards for Web designers and is open for nominations until August 31. Read more »
Repent Open Sourcerers
-- The Anglican Diocese in Sydney is moving away from Microsoft technologies, Access and ActiveX provide another way for remote code execution and a local Aussie team wins the Imagine Cup. All that and more in this week's Roundup. Read more »
Google opens up the code for Browser Sync
-- After deciding to discontinue its Browser Sync, Google has decided to make the code open source to let developers continue hacking. Read more »
LCA09 Calls, OpenMoko and a little Gentoo
-- It's a little weekend roundup of Linux related news that may have slipped under your radar. LCA2009's call for papers, OpenMoko is available for purchase from the States and Gentoo has another release. Read more »
Screw-ups, Mobile Linux shakeup and kthxbai Bill
-- The Roundup looks at where Sun went wrong with open source, what is happening in the Mobile Linux world and look at the departure of Bill Gates from full time work duties. Read more »
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Gallery: Jamming it with Web 2.0
"So what is WebJam?" the girl at the bar serving my mate and I a beer asked. She's thinking that maybe there's something to do with music happening tonight, but it's nothing like that. Read more »
LCA Open Day
Yesterday was show and tell day for linux.conf.au with a pavilion full of gadgets, toys and cool stuff Read more »
Mini-Confs Day 2
Mini-conferences continued to be the order of the day at Linux Conference Australia 2007. Read more »
Mini-Confs Day 1
Linux.conf.au kicked off today with a series of mini conferences covering a range of topics Read more »
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The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »
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Club Builder: Seinfeld, Wiimotes and Woz
On this episode of Club Builder: Jerry Seinfeld is the new face of Vista, we learn how to make a cheap whiteboard, and Woz talks about Steve Jobs.
