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Windows Mobile 7 delayed

Microsoft has informed some of its partners that it has had to delay Windows Mobile 7, a much anticipated update to its handset operating system. Read more »

Service links Gmail and Outlook, bypassing Exchange

If you like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client software but hate the expense of licensing and running Exchange Server, there is another alternative: a subscription service that effectively lets people dump Exchange in favour of Google's cloud-computing infrastructure. Read more »

Labor fires first tech shots in official election fight

On the first official day of the federal election campaign, Labor has placed IT at the centre of its agenda for growth, issuing a challenge to the Coalition on broadband and procurement. Read more »

Virtualisation: Is it all about the hardware, or the OS?

The virtualisation specialists are fighting back. Companies like VMware, and more recently XenSource, got their start with standalone virtualisation software -- but Linux sellers and Microsoft, unwilling to cede their influential position selling the foundational software of a computer, are trying to make virtualisation a feature of the operating system. Read more »

XenSource set to spoil VMware's party?

XenSource is set to move out of the shadows of rival VMware with the launch of XenSource Enterprise v4, its latest enterprise-class virtualisation product. Read more »

Microsoft's JPEG rival to become a standard?

Microsoft's HD Photo format could soon become a standard, boosting sales of its Windows Vista operating system which includes built-in support for the JPEG alternative. Read more »

Suse Linux gets better virtualisation, security

Novell has released the first service pack (SP1) for its Suse Linux Enterprise 10 server software, which promises better virtualisation and high performance support along with improved security. Read more »

US ruling makes server RAM a 'document'?

A federal judge in Los Angeles last week ruled that a computer server's RAM, or random-access memory, is a tangible document that can be stored and must be turned over in a lawsuit. Read more »

Developer defies MS demands to kill .NET debug tool

UK developer Jamie Cansdale seems to have ignored calls from Microsoft that he remove a free tool called TestDriven.NET from his Web site, despite legal demands that the tool be removed by June 1 -- because it breaches licensing conditions. Read more »

Jonathan Schwartz on the future of Sun

After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris. Read more »

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10 Linux desktops you shouldn't overlook

Even if you're happy with the Linux desktop you currently use, you might want to check out some alternatives to see what you could be missing. This article highlights 10 of the best desktops and explains what makes them stand out. Read more »

10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. Read more »

Authentication caching with nscd

Distributed authentication is increasingly popular as home networks add more computers and business networks continue to expand. Using a central authentication system such as LDAP or NIS with other technologies like Kerberos has become somewhat of a standard in large networks. Read more »

Migrating from shadow passwords to tcb in Linux

For a more secure Linux password system, a migration from shadow passwords to tcb is worth a little extra work. Vincent Danen tells you what you need to recompile and patch. Read more »

Developer spotlight:Danny Thorpe

Danny Thorpe is the chief scientist at Borland Software, and was part of the original team that developed Delphi. Builder magazine caught up with Danny to talk about the move to .NET, Kylix, and the future of Delphi. Read more »

Changing things too late: Why change management feels like an uphill battle

Change management is not easy. But switching your approach to it could pay dividends. Read more »

Designing 3D buttons with pure CSS

CSS buttons are much more efficient than image-based buttons because they're entirely text-based. Here are two techniques for creating a bevelled-edge by styling the borders of a CSS button. Read more »

The Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) pocket reference, Part 1

Learn about Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) the easy way with Part 1 of this interactive tutorial. Read more »

Eclipse emerges from Microsoft's shadow

Here's why Eclipse is clearly on track to take over from Visual Studio as the leading tool platform in the industry. Read more »

Avoid these Java inheritance gotchas

When your Java parent and child classes have variables or methods with identical names, you may have problems. Find out how to avoid this. Read more »

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What's new in CSS 3?

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney on Friday, Jina Bolton presented "Creating Sexy Style Sheets", which gave an insight into some of the new features in CSS 3. Read more »

Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 developer features

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- The latest Firefox alpha release -- 3.1 alpha 2 is more significant for developers than end-users. Read more »

Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. Read more »

Shadow chasing in browsers

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

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Gnome 2.16 Preview

With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »

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