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BT bets on open development

BT, long considered a risk-taker in the telecommunications market, has laid a US$105 million bet to open its network to application developers in the hopes of creating innovative voice services. But will other phone companies take a similar gamble? Read more »

WiMax gets royalty-dodging patent pool

Six technology titans are banding together to jointly license patents that cover WiMax in an effort to prevent costly royalty rates. Read more »

Google in Australia-wide hunt for top techie talent

Google Australia will this week run recruitment drives in Australian capital cities as the local arm of the software giant searches the nation for new engineering talent. Read more »

Microsoft charms hobbyists for embedded developments

The software maker has launched a project to encourage more amateur developers to tinker with its embedded software Read more »

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Tridgell pleased with rsync progress

Andrew Tridgell, the co-inventor of rsync, announced that the third version of the product is about to be released. Read more »

Marriage and war spawn 10-year virus outbreak

The most significant changes to IT security have come from sociological shifts such as young virus writers finding love or seeking employment after international wars, says a security veteran. Read more »

HP calls for a bit of help with open source tools

HP has called on developers to pitch in and help improve the open source management tools it made available to the community last week. Read more »

Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'

Linux and other open-source software should provide the model for development and distribution of educational materials, said Mark Shuttleworth. Read more »

IBM, Nokia and Sony want to share 'green' patents

IBM is set to announce the creation of an Eco-Patents Commons -- shared innovations geared at environmental sustainability -- with the participation of Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes. Read more »

Australia number one in Asia Pacific for offshoring

The Bric countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) dominate a list ranking the top 30 global offshoring locations. Read more »

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How to achieve real diversity in IT

While just hiring people who look different may satisfy internal mandates or passing fads, the truly beneficial form of diversity comes from a diversity of ideas and experience. Read more »

Gather query tuning data via Oracle's dynamic performance views

The dynamic performance views supplied with the Oracle database include several that make the process of gathering tuning information easier. This tip describes four of them: V$SQL, V$SQLAREA, V$SQLTEXT, and a new one, V$SQLSTATS. Read more »

Getting to grips with parallelism

Although parallelism may be a new concept for many programmers, there are some for whom the concept is a part of their daily responsibilities. Read more »

Nokia enters the mobile open source battle

Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms — Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP — are to be pooled into one open-sourced über-platform, came out of the blue. Read more »

10 things you should do near the end of a project

When it comes to the end of a project, many project managers come up just short of the finish line. Failure to handle the final steps can add confusion to an initiative and may lead to customer dissatisfaction, unhappy staff, and a project dragging on longer than necessary. Read more »

Seven aspects of a great user experience

The spotlight at this year's Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne was on user experience. Andy Budd, a designer and developer at Clearleft in the UK, contributed to the theme of the day with his presentation -- "Designing the User Experience Curve". Read more »

Defining cascading referential integrity constraints in SQL Server

By using cascading referential integrity constraints, you can define the actions that SQL Server 2005 takes when a user tries to delete or update a key to which existing foreign keys point. Read more »

Execute SQL statements in Integration Services

This tutorial walks you through the process of adding SQL statements to your SSIS packages and bundling them into logical units of work if necessary. Read more »

Visual Studio 2008 offers developers more testing options

Unit testing has evolved from a fringe activity to an industry-accepted way to develop software. This change in attitude was aided by the introduction of numerous freely available testing frameworks. Read more »

Use OpenNTPD for time synchronisation

Traditionally, the time synchronisation application used on Linux systems has been ntpd (network time protocol daemon). However, for quite some time now, the developers behind OpenSSH have created a secure, lean, and easy to configure NTP daemon called OpenNTPD. Read more »

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Scott McNealy's tips for a successful start-up

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you're itching to take your struggling start-up to the big time, you could do worse than take Sun Microsystems' Chairman and co-founder Scott McNealy advice to heart. Read more »

Flickr fans band together to fend off Microsoft

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This is what happens when Microsoft tries to take over not just a company but also a community: a number of Flickr users have launched a group opposing the attempted acquisition. Read more »

Mandriva, Turbolinux enter Linux alliance

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Forgive me if I sound skeptical, but during the nine years I've covered Linux, not once have I seen a favorable outcome to the partnership of the type Mandriva and Turbolinux announced Wednesday. Read more »

What to expect from Rich Internet Applications

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I had a look this week at what the developers claim to be the world's largest Adobe Flex application. Read more »

Software piracy rates and the BSAA

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- The annual Business Software Association (BSA) report into global piracy rates of packaged software was released last week. Interestingly enough the BSA claim that Australia's piracy rates have dropped slightly by one percent making 31% of all packaged software pirated. The Australian arm of the BSA, called the Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA) claim the losses through piracy cost Australia $446 million in 2005. Read more »

Express Yourself!

David McAmis [blogs:theneteffect] -- Microsoft has released a community technology preview of the new Expression Web Designer, their new flagship Web development tool and competitor to Adobe’s Dreamweaver. Read more »

Does Wall Street understand open source?

Matt Overington [blogs:bricksandmortar] -- I've been attending the Sun JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, where the big news is Sun's ongoing commitment to release all its products under open source licences. 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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