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Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones

Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new, higher-power effort to spread its Flash technology to mobile devices. Read more »

Paranoid Android: Did they forget Oz?

Dozens of phone calls and emails today made one thing clear: none of Australia's telcos or handset manufacturers has briefed their staff on when mobile phones running Google's Android system will be made available locally, if they are at all. Read more »

BusinessWeek site hacked

Hackers have broken into BusinessWeek's online site and set up an attack scenario in which visitors to a section of the site could have their own computers compromised and their data stolen, a security researcher said on Monday in the US. Read more »

Opera signs up to Symbian Foundation

The browser company Opera has signed up to the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform. Read more »

Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead

Google is making searchable, digital copies of old newspapers available online through partnerships with its publishers, the company said on Monday. Read more »

PlayStation 3 site hacked, 2.40 upgrade suspended

Sony has suspended its PlayStation 2.40 firmware upgrade following reports it has fouled up some users' systems — Sony has also removed hacked pages on its Playstation web site. Read more »

FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny

Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Read more »

What does Nokia's Symbian move mean for Android?

The next great operating systems wars are about to be fought, as traditional computing companies collide with teams representing the mobile phone industry. Read more »

Open source Symbian handsets expected in 2010

Nokia plans to acquire the rest of Symbian, open source the mobile operating system and launch its first handsets in two years. Read more »

Inside the Top500 supercomputers

Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers list to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany. Read more »

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50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

10+ things you should know about rootkits

Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. 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 »

Ballmer: From the frying pan to the firing line

In these eBay days, buyer's remorse is increasingly common. Less common is the remorse of the unbought — a sensation now widely reported among major Yahoo shareholders in the wake of Ballmer's retreat. Read more »

Despite its aging design, the x86 is still in charge

With most of the world's software written with x86 in mind, it's doubtful that any future chip architecture would be able to displace it. Read more »

Australian Mobile Development Landscape

Slow networks, expensive data charges, and a plethora of technical problems have prevented the mobile phone taking off as a computing platform. Is that about to change? Read more »

The secrets of open source security

The Linux vs. Windows security debate is a contest of examples, which stand in place of the concepts that comprise a larger, more fundamental question of what the security benefits and detriments are for the open source and closed source development models. Read more »

Octopiler helps multicore coders

IBM's compiler helps adapt programs to use the Cell chip's nine cores. Read more »

The open-source techie who means business

Alan Cox, one of the most respected figures in the open-source community, talks about GPL 3, software patents, the kernel development process and Linux on the desktop. Read more »

Driving towards in-car software

Developing applications to run inside cars is a fascinating and potentially lucrative market for developers. But what systems are actually running under the hood, and what hurdles do you have to overcome to build for them? Read more »

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Blog (8)

Will China produce the next GTA?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Is it only a matter of time before the next big gaming hit in the west is built in the east? Read more »

Flash seeking the open road?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Tristan Nitot appeared to have the gift of precognisance when he said that Adobe may open source Flash if Silverlight gained enough traction Read more »

Microsoft does a Wacko Jacko

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week was dominated by Microsoft US$44 billion proposal to Yahoo but we still found time to ask Linus Torvalds some questions and wonder if Michael Jackson and Microsoft behaved more similar than you'd think. Read more »

All this matter and make up and déjá vu

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- There are some weeks when you could be mistaken for thinking that the record had skipped and the players involved were simply going through the motions -- this week was one of them. Read more »

Is the $100 laptop the end for Moore's Law?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- 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 »

Giveaway to gadget showcase

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- We are giving away free passes to the upcoming "Experience More" product showcase. Read more »

Flash VoIP to expand

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- You may not have used Flash to make a call to a friend over the weekend, but chances are you could be doing that in the not too distant future. Read more »

Flash on Mobiles Down Under

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Have you tried Flash Lite on your mobile yet? With the number of supported handsets on the rise, and Nokia and Adobe currently giving the player away free to developers, perhaps now's the time. Read more »

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