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Microsoft launches free Security Essentials package
Microsoft on Tuesday introduced its long-awaited consumer security suite Microsoft Security Essentials, a free download that replaces the paid-for OneCare product. Read more »
Facebook at TechCrunch50: Engineers are our lifeblood
Facebook took the stage on Tuesday afternoon at the TechCrunch50 conference for a "Developer Garage" event, to highlight just how important its team of engineers is to the company -- and to unveil a new feature to let users play around with what they're up to. Read more »
Red Hat takes JBoss further into the cloud
In an announcement at Red Hat Summit & JBoss World, the company's annual user conference in Chicago on Tuesday, Red Hat announced the availability of the latest platform from its middleware division JBoss and provided details of its focus on internal and public cloud based application development. 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 »
Google selling unlocked Android phone
Google's Android developer team has started selling the Android Dev Phone 1, the first Android-based device unlocked to allow the use of any SIM card or software. Read more »
Linux.conf.au hits domain disaster
The website of Australia's annual Linux conference has become temporarily inaccessible scant months before the event because of policy confusion over whether or not it is allowed to use its long-standing domain name. Read more »
Coders win from Android Market
Google officially opened its Android Market Wednesday in the US and promised that beginning next year, programmers would get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile phone operating system. Read more »
Aussie domain aftermarket stalls
A month after Australia's domain name regulator started to allow domains ending in .au to be on-sold, companies are attempting to auction Australian domains for as much as AU$1 million. However, buyers have remained reluctant to pay top-dollar for the internet addresses. Read more »
ICANN's custom TLD will be a 'nightmare'
The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned. Read more »
.NSW, .Uluru, .Oz, .footy domains coming in 2009?
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to allow the creation of thousands of new domain names, from .paris to .Pepsi, in one of the biggest shake-ups in internet history, a French web official said. Read more »
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Message Interaction Patterns
In this serialisation of Chapter 14 from the book Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, we look at the more advanced messaging constructs supported by the Oracle BPEL PM. Read more »
File Server Capacity Tool helps scale file server sizing
This article reminds Windows administrators that Microsoft's new File Server Capacity Tool is a storage silver bullet. Read more »
10 must-have Linux web-based tools
There's no shortage of web-centric Linux tools -- the trick is figuring out which ones are best for your needs. This article offers a list of those that Jack Wallen thinks are the cream of the crop. Read more »
Secure ASP.NET 2.0 sites with Membership API
Beginning with ASP.NET 2.0, the Membership API was added to simplify adding security to a Web application. This article explains how to use the Membership API with a SQL Server back-end. Read more »
Seamlessly integrate applications with eBay using its Windows SDK
The eBay Windows SDK allows you to easily access eBay data within your application. Tony Patton gives you an overview of the functionality provided by the eBay Web services API. Read more »
Manipulating ASP.NET 2.0 browser support
ASP.NET 2.0 allows you to address browser support through browser configuration files. This set of files defines the capabilities for specific browsers. Read more »
Encrypting configuration data in ASP.NET 2.0
Learn how to protect data stored in a configuration file via encryption and describe new features available in ASP.NET 2.0. We'll begin with an overview of the encryption options and continue with the actual encryption of data values in a configuration file. Read more »
Interview: Simplifying Web app design
Following the Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne, we interviewed Robert Hoekman Jr in an email on his presentation -- "Essential elements of great Web application design". Read more »
Developing Bluetooth wireless applications in J2ME
This article reviews the principles of Java development for Bluetooth on mobile devices and describes how to write a Java application for Bluetooth communications. Read more »
On AIR: Getting ready for primetime
We caught up with Ryan Stewart, rich internet evangelist, Adobe, at MAX and spoke about AIR, Thermo and how Ryan has covered the US in a bus. Read more »
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Ballmer's quest to compete with Google
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer explains his long-term strategy to battle Google in the search market. Read more »
Is Google's Android ground-breaking?
ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das talks to senior editor Sam Diaz about Google's new mobile phone operating system, Android. Diaz discusses the new features available in the open-source operating system, whether it's an iPhone killer, and how the technology may eventually reach beyond phones and land inside other products such as set-top boxes, televisions, and automobiles. Read more »
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Non-professional Oracle wrestling
-- The latest and greatest version of the Oracle database, 11g Release 2, was made available recently and as the resident technical person, it fell to me to take it for a spin. Little did I realise the hell that I had just walked into. 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 »
The typical Linux conference geezer
-- Asking delegates to pick their distribution, shell and editor of choice gives us a chance to gain some insight into the average Linux conference attendee. Read more »
Win your way into Web Directions
-- We have three full Web Directions South event passes and two workshop passes to be won. Read more »
Web Directions South discount
-- Get $100 off the price of entry to all Builder AU members. 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 »
Microsoft imagines a better world.
-- Fresh off the wires from Microsoft comes reassuring news that their international student software design and programming competition, the Imagine Cup, is heating up. Read more »
Google Developer Day comes to Sydney
-- Lock in May 31st for learning about everything that is Google. Read more »
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