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Facebook botnet risk revealed
Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into elements of a botnet that in a demonstration launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server. Read more »
Mozilla offers do-it-yourself mashups for all
Mozilla released an experimental browser plug-in on Tuesday that aims to connect the Web with language to help users perform common Web tasks more quickly and easily. Read more »
In China, Microsoft eyes innovation
Innovation can often come unexpectedly, so researchers should be given the freedom and opportunity to explore new ideas, says the head of Microsoft's research lab in Beijing. Read more »
Intel reveals Core i7 chips
Intel has revealed the branding for the successor to its Core 2 Duo brand. Read more »
Coder links Yahoo search, Google App Engine
The goliaths of the Internet are dangling an ever-larger supply of bootstraps for folks who want to try new ideas for the Web. Read more »
Q&A: Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant. Read more »
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 »
BlackBerry PDF flaw exposes corporate networks
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is warning businesses to disable the function which allows a BlackBerry to read PDF files until it can issue an update, after a security flaw was found in the company's software. Read more »
Yahoo seeks search developers for ad revenue
In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the Internet company's technology. Read more »
The GNOME Foundation appoints new executive director
The GNOME Foundation has hired Stormy Peters as executive director to work on strengthening the organisation by drawing in new industry members and contributors. Read more »
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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 »
Multi-core state of play
It promises to be the biggest revolution in programming since object orientation -- but it remains virtually unheard of to most developers. Thanks to the development and uptake of multi-core CPUs, developers must begin to consider truly programming in parallel. Read more »
A Beginners Guide to Threading
The golden age for programmers is over. For a decade we have been able to get away with writing slow code, knowing that the hardware would pick up the slack. Not so any more, hardware developers have decided that software developers need to raise their game, and get ready for a generation of multi-core processors. Read more »
Programming for Cell
As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »
Can you be a self-respecting Web developer without knowing HTML?
I can't accept a so-called Web developer who doesn't fully understand the technology used to create their applications. Do you think a Web developer is doomed if he doesn't know HTML? Read more »
Visual Studio 2008 simplifies JavaScript debugging
One of the more cumbersome development tasks is debugging client-side JavaScript code. Tools such as Firebug are helpful, but in the case of Firebug, you're forced to use Firefox. Thankfully, Visual Studio 2008 provides a robust and developer-friendly environment for debugging JavaScript. Read more »
Deploy Java applications with JNLP
Using the Java Network Launching Protocol (JNLP) and Java Web Start for your next distributed application may be an attractive option. For instance, one advantage about JNLP applications is that they're self-installing and self-updating. Read more »
Inside the San Fran network lockout
A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it at first appears. Read more »
Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class
The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »
RIFE with possibilities
Developing a web-based application is never a small undertaking. At the very best it's a lot of work just to develop the code that does whatever it is your application is supposed to do but before you even get to the point of writing your application's code, you have to decide what you going to write it in. Read more »
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TechEd 2007: Michael Twigg
Michael Twigg is the production resources manager for Animal Logic, the creators of the films Happy Feet and 300. We sat down with Michael and asked him how Animal Logic handles the expectations of their clients and meets their deadlines. Read more »
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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 »
What's new in Dreamweaver CS4?
-- Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4. Read more »
MyPerfect.com.au has potential
-- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »
The best news Linux could ever receive: LinuxWorld's a bust
-- The latest proof that Linux has conquered the corporate data center crowd: LinuxWorld is a dud. Read more »
Sydney start-up Streem launches news site
-- Sydney-based start-up Streem yesterday formally launched a new online news site, saying it would differ from traditional media outlets by paying readers a small fee for any content they submitted. Read more »
Perils of outsourcing
-- This edition of the Weekly Roundup looks at what happens when outsourcing companies are robbed, there's more Google news than one can poke a stick at, Samba has a new version and we see what endorsement Mark Taylor has signed on for. Read more »
Do browsers need a Universal Edit Button?
-- As websites allow more user generated content do browsers need a way to better inform users that pages are editable? Read more »
Six video podcasts to help you ace Photoshop
-- Mastering Photoshop and other image manipulation programs can be a handy addition to your toolbox of skills as an IT pro. Get started with these engaging (and free) video podcasts. Read more »
Sending the Inbox into receivership
-- If you've got an e-mail inbox with thousands of e-mails just sitting there, chances are you are living inside your inbox and that you are a slave to mail notifications. To overcome this problem and get on top of your e-mail rather than vice versa, here are a couple of techniques. Read more »
Google Developer Day yet to fill
-- Past experience would suggest that if Google restricts access then people will clamour for it -- remember GMail invites back in the day? It is therefore surprising that places for Google's Sydney Developer Day have not been snapped up. Read more »
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Startup Camp Sydney: The reviewThree new Australian technology start-ups, uTag, TrafficHawk.com.au and LinkViz, were conceived and launched over the weekend in a lightning initiative dubbed "Startup Camp Sydney". Read more »
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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 »
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Club Builder: Space, Ubiquity and Microsoft Tri-Soapbox
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.
