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Rees opens govt data to developers
NSW Premier Nathan Rees has announced a data feed for RailCorp information, putting an end to the saga that had led to a developer being threatened with legal action for his use of train times in an iPhone application. Read more »
Netspace's green box: Contest winner
It's been a highly entertaining week for ZDNet.com.au and Builder AU staff as we sifted through quite a few hilarious reader captions. 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 »
Netspace's green box: Caption contest
Netspace regulatory and carrier affairs manager Matthew Phillips has a lovely big green box. But what's inside? Tell us to win a double DVD box set of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre films. Read more »
Conroy's red button: Contest winner
It's been a highly entertaining week for ZDNet.com.au and Builder AU staff as we sifted through 90 talkbacks across both sites. Read more »
Conroy's big red button: Caption contest
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, a lab coat and a big red button. What could be going on here? Tell us and win a Plantronics microphone and headphone set. Read more »
Win MSDN subscription and REMIX tickets
We've got a full MSDN subscription and four tickets to Microsoft's REMIX conference in Sydney next week to giveaway. Enter here! Read more »
Oracle/BEA: 12 months on
In the heady days of January 2008, database maker Oracle had finally captured the prize that it had been courting for many months, BEA, and in an instant became the largest middleware player in the market. But are the real results yet to appear? Read more »
Google plugs PC power into cloud computing
Even at the cutting edge of cloud computing, web-based applications can be frustrating to write and to use. Read more »
Google spotlights news timeline, labs work
Google, perhaps eager to counter any worries that its engine of innovation is sputtering after the down economy triggered the closure of various projects, sheds light on two new projects and on a revamped Google Labs site for bringing others to the public's attention. Read more »
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IBM hopes to upend industry standard server ROI equation
IBM introduced a new class of industry standard servers that it hopes will widen its market share lead and put rivals like HP and Dell on defence. Read more »
Talking smack about former employers not advisable
The author cautions those who leave their jobs (willingly or otherwise) to be careful about those farewell messages they leave behind. Read more »
Students give Microsoft a workout
Over the past half year 300,000 students from around the world have been coding away using Microsoft technology to prepare their entries in the annual Imagine Cup contest. This week 440 of them gathered in Cairo to battle it out in various categories relating to software development and visual media. Read more »
Apples vs apples: Chrome takes on beta browsers
The internet has exploded in a single, joyous, mass-hallucination called Chrome. Apparently it's the fastest browser ever and will solve a myriad of problems from slowness within Google Spreadsheet to possibly creating an acceptable carbon trading scheme. 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 »
Handling conflicts of interest
Because conflict of interest decisions sometimes have to be made in the spur of the moment, I advise conservatism when making them. It may lead to a missed opportunity, but I would rather miss out on a -good deal" than deal with the repercussions of a bad choice. Read more »
VMware's US$200,000 virtualisation challenge
Fancy coding virtual appliances? Then you might be in with a chance... Read more »
Let the games begin!
Feeling energised by the gold Australia is winning in Athens this year? You might want to leave those Speedos in your drawer because there are a few coding competitions out there that could not only win you fame but possibly help when finding your next job. Read more »
Playing the developer archaeologist
Have you ever been given another developer's code and tried to work out exactly how the last Neanderthal ever got their apps to work? Welcome to the world of software archaeology! 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 »
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Aussie Web design awards open
-- Looking for recognition of your team's hot design skills? The McFarlane Prize is one of Australia's most premier industry awards for Web designers and is open for nominations until August 31. Read more »
Introducing IE8: The Ocho
-- Over in Las Vegas the MIX conference is underway and that means only one thing: Microsoft announcements and plenty of them. Read more »
Competition: Gates vs Woz Deathmatch
-- Tell us who you think would win in a deathmatch between Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak, and go in the running to pick up some free gear. Read more »
Competition: Club Builder Christmas Hamper
-- To celebrate the 2007th episode of Christmas, and to look back at the year that was 2007, the Builder AU team are offering a Christmas hamper chock full of developer event goodies from 2007. Read more »
October DVD competition
-- If you could read peoples thoughts what would you do with your power and why? If you can answer that question you could win a dvd pack Read more »
Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote
-- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »
Builder AU's June book giveaway
-- Help out in the Builder AU forums and win a book! 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 »
Be a hero, get a Meego: IT Fund for kids competition.
-- Support the IT Fund for kids and you could win from an entertainment pack worth over $1,000! Read more »
Win Stuff! Builder AU's Book Of the Month Competition
-- We've got five copies of Hacking Exposed VoIP: Voice Over IP Security Secrets & Solutions by David Endler to give away, 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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In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
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Google launches Apps MarketplaceGoogle launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »
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TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »
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