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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 puts Exchange, SharePoint online
For perhaps the first time in its history, Microsoft made the case on Monday that businesses shouldn't run its software. Instead, the software maker argued that corporations should let Microsoft run the software for them. 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 »
Google details 'reboot' bug, Android security fixes
Google has begun releasing some details about the vulnerabilities it patched in two updates to Google's Android operating system software in the T-Mobile G1 smartphone. Read more »
Google starts fixing Android 'reboot' bug
Google has begun fixing a bug that would reboot T-Mobile's G1, the first Android-powered phone, any time a user typed the word "reboot." 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 »
Third Chrome beta another notch faster
Google began updating Chrome users with the new beta version, and performance tests show the company has ratcheted the browser's speed up another notch Read more »
Opera CEO: Chrome has been very good for us
Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner was in town today, so I spent a few minutes with him talking about the browser company he co-founded way back in 1995. With browser battles raging, I wanted to know how this almost historic company was holding up. Read more »
Amazon adds Windows to its cloud
Amazon has taken its Elastic Compute Cloud service out of beta status and added Windows to Linux and Solaris on its list of supported operating systems. Read more »
Keystrokes can be recovered remotely
Wired keyboards, like those found on desktop PCs, emit electromagnetic waves that can be read remotely, according two Swiss researchers. 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 »
Security in the Web 2.0 Era
At the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2008 in Sydney this week, Andrew Walls, the research director and security analyst at Gartner presented "Security in the Age of E-Commerce and Web 2.0". Read more »
Did Ballmer hint at a Windows AppStore?
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer yesterday appeared to hint at the possibility of a Windows application marketplace that would be similar to the Apple iPhone AppStore. But the idea is not without its share of problems. Read more »
The Power of Perception
In some places, IT still has a perception problem, but this problem can be overcome to the benefit of the business. 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 »
Raphael JavaScript library simplifies creating graphics
This article explains how to use the Raphael JavaScript library and describes the various options that are available in it. Read more »
Java on Google App Engine? Not yet
Reports out of a Google developer conference in India indicated that Google was primed to add support for Java programs running on its presently Python-only Google App Engine. 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 »
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 ways to survive office politics
Friction, deceit, gossip, rivalry, power plays -- fine for movies and TV, but potentially disastrous in the workplace. Calvin Sun looks at strategies for steering clear of issues that can unravel company culture and hurt your career. Read more »
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Ballmer's Sydney speech: Full video
Watch Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's full speech in Sydney this week at the company's Power to Developers Event. Read more »
Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox -- Club Builder
In this episode of Club Builder: a new Firefox plug-in makes browsing more powerful, computer viruses enter orbit, and Microsoft gets a three-way serve of soapboxing. Read more »
JavaOne '08: Sun brings back Java applets
Sun Microsystems demos new JavaFX powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java SE team show how the new applets can be deployed within a Web browser or dragged over to the desktop. Read more »
Sun CTO previews JavaFX-powered game
Sun Microsystems shows off a new JavaFX-powered game at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Sun CTO Robert Brewin talks to Ken Russell and Chris Oliver of the company's JavaFX team about how they created the animation inside the game Moon Tank using the JavaFX environment. Read more »
Sun unveils JavaFX apps, Photo Flocker, Movie Cloud
Sun Microsystems demos two new JavaFX-powered applications, Photo Flocker and Movie Cloud, at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco Tuesday. Rich Green, the company's executive vice president of software, shows attendees Photo Flocker, an app that allows users to search for photos by tags and display the photos. Read more »
Linux is ready to go green: Linus Torvalds
The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne attending Linux.conf.au -- Australia's largest Linux conference. Read more »
Ballmer's big Yahoo vision
ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber talks about Microsoft's $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. He analyses Microsoft's strategy in search, the potential impact on chief rival Google, and what it would mean, overall, in the competitive online-search market. Read more »
Microsoft's Yahoo bid: word from Silicon Valley
In Silicon Valley, everyone is talking about Microsoft's US$44.6 billion offer for Yahoo. Read more »
Super Techies: Brendan Eich
In a Super Techies interview, Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his career as a programmer in Silicon Valley. Eich discusses his early work at Netscape creating the JavaScript programming language, battling Microsoft in the browser wars, and his current role at Mozilla,... Read more »
Europe probes again -- Club Builder
Europe takes another look at Microsoft with new anti-trust claims while we look back at the OLPC at linux.conf.au 2007. Read more »
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Sun's JavaFX RIA platform MIA?
-- Adobe and Microsoft have taken the early lead in the RIA market but Sun is still waiting to get out of the starting blocks with JavaFX. Is Sun too late to the party? Read more »
The Best of Ballmer
-- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. Read more »
Highlights from the PDC
-- This week we bring you special coverage from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Read more »
Yahoo to expose its wiring to developers
-- Phase one came last week, when Yahoo launched its new profiles site. Phase two begins next week, when web developers can start sinking their teeth into Yahoo's attempt to replace its present static design with one that's customisable, application-rich, socially connected, and woven into other parts of the Internet. Read more »
Scott McNealy's tips for a successful start-up
-- 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 »
Apple to developer: Fart jokes aren't funny
-- When Apple announced it would be vetting every application submitted for inclusion in the App Store, this was just the kind of question that entered many a mind: just how arbitrary would the company be in wielding that veto power? Read more »
2Vouch refers well
-- Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »
VMware shows how not to do it
-- As a developer there will be a time when you ship a bug -- be it a stub that you left in, or a flaming, crashtastic segfault. The next time this happens and your bosses come baying for blood, point them in the direction of VMware, who this week gave the developer world a great example of how to ship a showstopper bug. 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 »
Facebook's portal for the masses
-- This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the "power to share and make the world more open and connected." That's how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook. Read more »
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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 »
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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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Yang's resignation: The talk of Silicon Valley
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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.