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Paranoid Android: Did they forget Oz?

Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia's telcos or handset manufacturers has briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google's Android system will be made available locally, if they are at all. Read more »

Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone

Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called oneConnect that can centralise communications and social-networking activity. Read more »

Nokia phones to support Exchange

Nokia took aim at smartphone rival RIM this week, announcing plans to expand the number of devices that will automatically be capable of accessing Microsoft corporate email via the software giant's Exchange platform. Read more »

What does Nokia's Symbian move mean for Android?

The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry. Read more »

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Apple answers call for iPhone applications

Apple wowed the cell phone industry a year ago with the first version of the iPhone. And now its new software development kit and soon-to-be-launched application store featuring third-party applications could change the game yet again. Read more »

Aussie Linux head: Microsoft more open than iPhone

The world has been turned upside down for Linux developers, thanks to Microsoft's approach to its mobile platform -- today it's the most open functioning platform on the market, says new Linux Australia president Stewart Smith. Read more »

Google Maps for Mobile adds 'My Location' feature

Google has launched a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location, even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device. Read more »

Microsoft announces Windows Mobile management server

Microsoft has announced System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008, its first server-based tool for managing and securing Windows Mobile devices. Read more »

Salesforce.com wants customers to use the force

Salesforce.com is trying to persuade its customers to use its hosting platform, called force.com, to serve up their online applications, but even the company's leaders admit that most people still view it simply as a hosted CRM platform. Will its rebranding and development strategies help it to turn the corner? Read more »

IE most influential tech product in last 25 years?

Despite the ubiquity of the iPod, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the 'most influential' tech product of the past 25 years, according to a survey of IT professionals. Read more »

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Use lbdb to combine contact sources for easy address lookup

Address book storage varies by e-mail client; many keep contacts in their own storage format that makes them inaccessible to other clients. One program, called the Little Brother's Database, can bring many of these together to make it easy to search for contacts outside of your e-mail client. Read more »

The Mobile Future

The next battle for the hearts and minds of internet developers will be fought on the mobile phone. Read more »

Australian Mobile Development Landscape

Slow networks, expensive data charges, and a plethora of technical problems have prevented the mobile phone taking off as a computing platform. Is that about to change? Read more »

MAX 2006 Report

Max 2006 was staged in Las Vegas on 23rd - 26th October, Andrew Muller was there for Builder AU. Read more »

The open-source techie who means business

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »

Review: InstallShield X

InstallShield has long been a heavyweight in the installation tools category. Have they held on to this status with the latest release? Find out in our Australian review. Read more »

Seven deadly excuses for poor design

Some companies look at customer satisfaction to determine their success while other unwittingly reward their staff for products that don't meet the needs of end users. Read more »

Mobile development in Australia--Part 3

In the final part in this series, Builder AU wraps up with advice for developers wanting to take their mobile applications to market. Read more »

Mobile development in Australia--Part 2

In the second part of our series on mobile development in Australia, Builder AU investigates the skills required and key technical considerations for a succesful mobile deployment. Read more »

PalmOne serves up Java tools

PalmOne has smoothed the way for developers to create Java applications for its Treo and Tungsten handheld computers, a move it hopes will help it win more corporate customers. Read more »

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MyPerfect.com.au has potential

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- 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 »

Google Maps discovers Australia

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Aussies have missed out on much of the mash-up madness with Google being slow to deliver Australian maps to its popular mapping service. However, local developers will have to wait no longer, GoogleGoogle have launched Google Maps with Australian maps. Read more »

What's a Beta these days?

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- Betas are now so widespread that the term is becoming meaningless. 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

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    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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