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Study: businesses start to embrace Windows 7
A new survey shows that businesses are increasingly planning their move to Windows 7, with more than half of those questioned planning to have some machines running the operating system in their corporations by the end of the year. Read more »
Microsoft offers upgrade deal for developers
Microsoft announced on Tuesday two new programs for those looking to move to its next generation of developer tools software. Read more »
Aussie execs speak out on Apple's iPad
Key figures in Australia's information and communications technology community have been exuberant about the Apple iPad, calling it everything from "kick-ass" to a device that would be a tool for executives. Read more »
Microsoft sets Office 2010 pricing
Microsoft has announced pricing for Office 2010, with the biggest change being the fact that buyers can pay less by forgoing the full boxed copy in favour of a card with only a product key code. Read more »
Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion
Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share. Read more »
Bing grabs a bigger slice of search market
Web analytics firm StatCounter released analysis on Monday stating that Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, slightly increased the software maker's share of the US search market in July. It now claims 9.41 percent, up from 8.23 percent in June. Read more »
Microsoft kicks off Windows Mobile app store challenge
Microsoft has begun taking submissions from developers to populate its upcoming App Market, sweetening the deal by announcing a competition to find the best apps and prizes for the winners. Read more »
Windows 7 testers have long path to upgrade
Going from Windows Vista to Windows 7 is relatively straightforward. So one might think that moving from a pre-release version of Windows 7 to the final version would also be simple. Read more »
Microsoft hikes Win7 prices for Australia
Australian buyers of Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system will pay between AU$50 and AU$150 more in real terms than US residents for the software, the company revealed this morning. Read more »
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts
Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. Read more »
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Why Windows 7 should be free in China
Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services? Read more »
10 outstanding Linux backup utilities
A dependable backup tool is not a luxury -- everyone needs to have one. But that doesn’t mean you need to spend a fortune to get the feature set that meets your needs. Read more »
Google Apps is now an Exchange-replacement
Google announced a new feature of Google Apps for its enterprise customers that allows users to sync their mail, calendar and contacts with Microsoft Outlook. This enables Google Apps to replace Exchange on the back-end. Read more »
Five alternate careers for IT pros
Considering a career change? Book author Janice Weinberg points out some of the paths open to IT workers. Read more »
Appcelerator: A Web control library that offers a full platform
If you're looking into various libraries and frameworks for handling the client side of your web application, you will want to evaluate Appcelerator. Find out why. Read more »
Taking on Twitter with open source software
One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »
The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history
While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »
10 things you should know about virtualisation
Virtualisation has been a major buzzword in the IT world for a few years. Microsoft has promised that the Hyper-V virtualisation component (formerly called Viridian) will follow within 180 days of the Windows Server 2008 release. Read more »
Windows Presentation Foundation: Another piece of the .NET puzzle
Windows Presentation Foundation is just one of the major enhancements to the .NET Framework introduced alongside Windows Vista. Read more »
10 midyear resolutions for net admins
We've put together a list of resolutions aimed at helping net admins line up their priorities, effectively deal with the day-to-day issues, and plan and execute improvements. Read more »
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How many Windows 7s will there be?
-- The internet has been awash with rumours about Windows 7, with a pre-beta release being handed out to attendees at the Professional Developers Conference in the US this week. But how many Windows 7 versions will there be? Read more »
Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone
-- Google already has customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read more »
Is the $100 laptop the end for Moore's Law?
-- Here we are, extolling the virtues of laptops such as the pricey Sony Vaio TZ, when for most users the US$100 XO would be just as effective. Read more »
Builder AU 5th Birthday Competition
-- Builder AU is turning five and we are offering readers the opportunity to win one of six big ticket prizes! Read more »
Adobe to set Flex free
-- Adobe have announced plans to open source the Flex platform in full under the open source Mozilla Public License (MPL) by the end of 2007. Read more »
Australian prices for Vista released
-- No doubt there will be more news on this soon but Microsoft have just e-mailed Builder AU with the local prices for Microsoft's Vista operating system. 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 »
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