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Google Mobile for iPhone breaks App Store rules
Google Mobile lets you search the Web using your voice in a way that is technically off-limits to iPhone developers, according to a report. Read more »
Apple's Snow Leopard due early 2009
Apple's OS X Snow Leopard may be on tap for the start of the new year, slightly earlier than expected. Read more »
Yahoo to make BrowserPlus open-source
It was probably inevitable given what Google did with Gears, but Yahoo said Tuesday it's releasing BrowserPlus software as open source software. Read more »
Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones
Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. Read more »
Adobe answers cries for 64-bit Flash
Adobe Systems plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology on Monday for those using 64-bit Linux software. Read more »
BrowserPlus escapes Yahoo walled garden
Yahoo has improved its BrowserPlus technology for more sophisticated Web applications and now lets other Web sites besides its own use it, the company said. Read more »
Windows 7 Server gets its day
After two weeks of focus on the desktop version of Windows 7, it's server counterpart finally got a day in the sun. Read more »
Ballmer dismisses Google Android
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer today dismissed Google's Android operating system, saying he believed it was financially unsound. Read more »
Salesforce.com attacks Microsoft, SAP
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff has accused SAP of failing to understand cloud computing and slammed Microsoft's internet-based operating system, Azure. Read more »
Windows 7 pre-beta hits BitTorrent
The pre-beta version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developer Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it. Read more »
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Deciphering the term "rich Internet application"
Web 2.0 has become a cliched term when it comes to describing websites. A new term has popped up to cover online applications: RIA, or rich Internet application. Does it mean the same thing as Web 2.0? Read more »
10 questions to ask before migrating to Linux
If you're thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it -- but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step. Read more »
10 Linux desktops you shouldn't overlook
Even if you're happy with the Linux desktop you currently use, you might want to check out some alternatives to see what you could be missing. This article highlights 10 of the best desktops and explains what makes them stand out. Read more »
Control Apache with the apachectl command
The apachectl command is an often overlooked program that allows you a great deal of control over Apache processes. This article explains the basics of this command, which you can use to debug or test Apache configurations. Read more »
Symbian's research chief on going open source
We caught up with Symbian's research chief, David Wood, at the Symbian Smartphone Show at Earls Court in London, to discuss the complications of such a process, as well as what the next few years holds for smartphone technology. Read more »
Take advantage of undocumented SQL Server iteration procedures
Here's a look at how you can use two built-in system stored procedures -- sp_msforeachdb and sp_msforeachtable -- to iterate through SQL Server tables and databases. Read more »
Qt: Cross-platform futures in a mobile world
Benoit Schillings is chief technologist for Qt Software (originally Trolltech). Based in the Bay Area around San Francisco, he sets the direction of the company's cross-platform application deployment product. 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 »
10 surprising things about Windows Server 2008
When you take a look at Windows Server 2008, you'll discover big changes -- including some legitimate improvements. This article outlines a few of the unexpected aspects of the new OS, both good and bad. Read more »
10 ways to make Linux boot faster
On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you'd like. This article gives you a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times. Read more »
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Ray Ozzie announces Windows Azure
At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie talks about the company's new cloud computing operating system, called Windows Azure. The new OS is a framework that allows you to scale from 10 users to 10 million users without additional coding. Ozzie also discusses what the technology means for developers and businesses. Read more »
Change the Windows XP product key
Even in the best IT shops, it's not impossible for a pirated copy of Windows XP to find its way onto the desktop. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic's Head Technology Editor, shows you how to change a Windows XP product key with a quick registry hack. Read more »
Is Google's Android ground-breaking?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's new mobile phone operating system, Android. Diaz discusses the new features available in the open-source operating system, whether it's an iPhone killer, and how the technology may eventually reach beyond phones and land inside other products such as set-top boxes, televisions, and automobiles. Read more »
Why security appliances can make you less secure
Security appliances can introduce vulnerabilities into an organisation's network because they often include older operating systems and vendors rarely inform customers how to properly update them, according to Microsoft's Roger Grimes, who was speaking at the AusCERT 2008 conference. Read more »
Keys to kernel reliability
UNSW professor of operating systems, Gernot Heiser, explains how keeping drivers outside the kernel can increase reliability Read more »
Convergence of kernel philosophies
Gernot Heiser, professor of operating systems at UNSW, explains how monolithic kernels are taking some ideas from microkernels, but never shall the two meet. Read more »
Dell and Sun partner on Solaris
At Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz and Dell CEO Michael Dell share the stage to announce that Sun's open-source operating system, Solaris, will be shipping on Dell servers. 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 »
Ubuntu gets jaunty
-- This week's Roundup looks at Ubuntu's new Jaunty Jackalope, new rules of virtualisation, the world of browsers and more. Read more »
The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security
-- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. 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 »
Windows XP's last hurrah
-- The mere fact that Microsoft will stop widespread sale of Windows XP at the end of the day has been a topic here and elsewhere for months. The most immediate question is, with Windows XP moving off the stage, just where is Windows Vista? 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 »
Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?
-- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »
WebKit's SquirrelFish canes Tamarin
-- The next generation of Javascript interpreter for WebKit, called SquirrelFish, has been announced and is already beating the competition from Mozilla and Adobe's Tamarin project. Read more »
Do vendors read their own EULAs?
-- If you've ever had Safari installed under Windows then you were a software thief -- until last night. Read more »
Do Vista users come from XP?
-- The theory is that people on XP will skip over to Windows 7 when it appears and Vista users will come from Windows 2000.
A silly idea that can be disproved by a simple graph -- or can it? Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending 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 »
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Interplanetary Internet a possibility
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.