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Unveiling Apple's iPad: Live blog
After months of rumors and speculation about a slate-like device, Apple has had its say. See the train of events in this blog from the high-profile press event which kicked off in San Francisco at 10am PST — 5am Sydney time. Read more »
Native Client in Chrome: Google flexes web muscle
Google has built its Native Client technology into its newest version of Chrome, endowing the browser with new processing power for running web applications. Read more »
Researchers prove kernel is secure
Australian researchers have demonstrated a way to prove core software for mission-critical systems is safe. Read more »
Adobe makes Acrobat.com a business with paid accounts
Adobe is taking Acrobat.com out of beta on Monday, and turning it into a business with paid user accounts. Read more »
Microsoft spins out software-protection tech
Microsoft said on Tuesday that it is spinning out as a separate business a two-year-old effort that licenses its software-protection technologies to other companies. Read more »
What to expect in Windows 7 RC
In this hands on, the Windows 7 Release Candidate continues to impress with big new features, improvements to old ones, and a longer trial period despite dropping native Bluetooth support. Read more »
ODF finally defeats OOXML in document format war?
Microsoft will add native support to Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF) instead of OOXML because of compatibility issues — but Microsoft refuses to admit that ODF has won the document format war. Read more »
IBM's racetrack memory seeks 100x density boost
IBM researchers gave ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com an insight its latest "racetrack" memory, which IBM promises will bring a 100 fold increase in density — by storing data in long magnetised nanowires rather than disks. Read more »
Apple unveils MacBook Air: "world's thinnest notebook"
Apple unveiled its ultraportable MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook according to CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote speech at Macworld 2008 on Tuesday in San Francisco. Read more »
Spinning mass stores datacentre energy
Storing energy in moving objects could be the next big thing for datacentres looking to renewable energy. Read more »
Features (43)
Parse and process HTML with WebBrowser
The author describes how he used the WebBrowser control to parse HTML to extract data from it. Here are some of the issues he faced on this simple project. Read more »
10 open source headlines we'd like to see in 2010
At the beginning of a bright, shiny new year, a lot of things seem possible -- or at least worth imagining. Here are a few fantasy headlines. Read more »
Getting started with Delphi for PHP
This article guides you through a brief tour of CodeGear's Delphi for PHP, a visual IDE for developing applications in PHP. Read more »
Aussie IT unions rise from the dead
Australia's creaky technology unions have finally awoken from their long slumber and have started to throw their weight around. Read more »
Communication is the key to controlling project chaos
This article suggests steps to take during a chaotic project to calm the waters. He also offers advice on how to prevent a future project from spinning out of control. Read more »
Replicating your infrastructure in a lab
This article shows you how to do a test run of Windows Server 2008/Exchange Server 2007 running together in a test environment. Read more »
Switching Oracle Portal to a new database is easier than Oracle Tech Support says
If you do not have to support an Oracle Portal, consider yourself lucky. We recently ran into a problem that forced us to quickly move to a new metadata database. Read more »
JRuby: An Introduction
JRuby is a 100 percent Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, and while it does not have all the features of Ruby it does have most of built-in classes of the language. Read more »
Developer Spotlight: Inside .NET with Juval Lowy
Builder AU caught up with Lowy during his masterclass in Sydney and discussed what is in .NET 3.0, the design review process and how developers can better learn. Read more »
Automate your Java testing with Agitator 3.0
The latest version of Agitar's automatic testing tool aims to make test generation of your Java code automatic. In this review we take the latest version of Agitator out for a spin. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview
-- This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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 »
Mozilla's Ubiquity gets faster, prettier
-- On Monday Mozilla released a new version of Ubiquity, the in-browser command line-like utility. Read more »
Stepping into the Leopard cage
-- Thankfully the Builder Bureau of Meteorology is predicting rain for the weekend, it will be give me a chance to tangle with that big cat of an OS again. This time I'm coming prepared with chair and whip. Read more »
Solving the network storage dilemma
-- I've had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on the internal network. Read more »
The Fud is Flying! (Again)
-- It seems like that the latest marketing technique for software vendors is to sling a little FUD and see if it sticks. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt make for some attention-grabbing headlines and are great for scaring potential customers away from a competitors offering. Read more »
64 bit me
-- If these 64-bit systems are going to use wrappers and other tricks to maintain compatibility with vendors unwilling to support the platform, is there any point to having it? Read more »
The FUD is flying!
-- For years, the IT community has accused Microsoft of spreading “FUD” (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) about their competitor’s solutions. But it looks like that the FUD has been flying back the other way, with some industry analysts hypothesising that the new IP features in Windows Vista will bring the Internet to it's knees with an overload of traffic. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. 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 Marketplace
Google 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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